Understanding Complex Biological Systems with Mathematics (eBook)

Ami Radunskaya is a professor of mathematics at Pomona College, the President of the Association for Women in Mathematics (2017-2018), and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Rebecca Segal is an associate professor of mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University.Blerta Shtylla is an assistant professor of mathematics at Pomona College. 

Preface.- Searching for superspreaders: Identifying Epidemic Patterns Associated with Superspreading Events in Stochastic Models (Christina Edholm, et al).- How Disease Risks Can Impact the Evolution of Social Behaviors and Emergent Population Organization (Nakeya Williams, et al).- Mathematical Analysis of the Impact of Social Structure on Ectoparasite Load in Allogrooming Populations (Heather Z. Brooks, et al).- Modeling the Argasid Tick (Ornithodoros Moubata) Life Cycle (Sara Clifton, et al).- A Mathematical Model for Tumor-Immune Dynamics in Multiple Myeloma (Jill Gallaher, et al).- Fluid Dynamics of Nematocyst Prey Capture (Wanda Strychalski, et al).- Simulations of the Vascular Network Growth Process for Studying Placenta Structure and Function Associated with Autism (Catalina Anghel, et al).- Placental Vessel Extraction with Shearlets, Laplacian Eigenmaps, and a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (Catalina Anghel, et al).- Author Index.