2024 Pi Day Talk
Date and Time (China standard time): Thursday, March 14, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: IB 1010
Zoom ID: 910 5026 0303; Passcode: dkumath
Title: From individual to population in Mathematical biology
Speaker: Min Tang
Abstract: Animal communities, cell tissues, and bacterial colonies all exhibit diverse scales, ranging from macro to micro. These individuals can move themselves and form multi-scale collective behaviors through interactions. Models exist at various levels, encompassing genes, single cells, organs, and cell populations. Experimental methods and data types are different at different scales. I will first discuss mathematical models for biological systems at different scales, then demonstrate how to employ mathematical tools to transfer information from the microscopic to the macroscopic in some biological systems.
Bio: Min Tang, Professor at the Institute of Natural Sciences and the School of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Homepage: https://ins.sjtu.edu.cn/people/mtang/
2000-2004, Bachelor at Tsinghua University, 2004-2008, PhD at Tsinghua University, 2008-2009, Postdoc at University Paul Sabatier, France, 2009-2011, Postdoc at Sorbonne University, France, 2011-2017, Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2018-present, Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
My expertise lies in applied mathematics, specifically in mathematical biology and numerical methods. In mathematical biology, I specialize in creating mathematical models for microorganism movement across various scales and exploring the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. In numerical methods, my focus spans a wide array of kinetic and diffusion equations, applied in fields such as radiation and biology.