• Silvana Ilie
• Kunquan Lan
• Jean-Paul Pascal
• Katrin Rohlf

Upcoming Seminars:

Past Seminars:

November 20, 2014, 11:10am-noon, ENG 210: Dr. Robert Strehl, Department of Mathematics, Ryerson University. Numerical challenges of chemotaxis-driven PDEs

November 13, 2014, 11:10am-noon, ENG 210: Dr. Diana Knipl, Agent-Based Modelling Laboratory, York University. Modelling the spread of infectious diseases on travel networks

March 27, 2014, 11:10am-noon, ENG 210: Dr. Youcef Derbal, Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management, Ryerson University. Finite state machine modeling of MAPK signaling pathways

March 6, 2014, 11:10am-noon, ENG 210: Dr. Anna Mkrtchyan, Department of Applied Mathematics, Western University. Modelling of tissue growth

February 6, 2014, 11:10am-noon, ENG 210: Dr. Scott Tsai, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University. Particle coating in low Reynolds number flows

January 30, 2014, 11:10am-noon, ENG 210: Dr. Matthew Scott, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo. Indirect regulation of bacterial gene expression imposed by growth and division

November 21, 2013: Dr. Hossein Zivari-Piran, Centre for Disease Modelling, York University. Numerical study of a large-scale model for measles spread

November 7, 2013: Dr. Fei Xu, Wilfrid Laurier University. Spatial spread of an epidemic through public transportation systems with a hub

October 31, 2013: Dr. Kunquan Lan, Ryerson University. One dimensional diffusive logistic population models with harvesting rates

April 11, 2013: Dr. Lennaert van Veen, University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Transient turbulence and homoclinic tangles in channel flow

April 4, 2013: Dr. Robert Jerrard, University of Toronto. Vortex dynamics in inhomogeneous 2d quantum fluids

March 14, 2013: Pietro-Luciano Buono, University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Edge Effects on Caribou Populations: Modelling via Advection-diffusion

March 7, 2013: Dr. Catherine Beauchemin, Department of Physics, Ryerson University. Virology in silico: growing infections in a computer

February 28, 2013: Dr. Gail Wolkowicz, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Chaotic dynamics in predator-prey models with time delay

Feb. 7, 2013: Dr. Felicia Magpantay, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, An Age-Structured Population Model with State-Dependent Delay

Jan. 31, 2013: Dr. Majid Jaberi, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Optimality of a Time-Dependent Treatment Profile during an Influenza Epidemic

Nov. 22, 2012: Dr. Jian Fang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University , Traveling waves of the nonlocal Fisher-KPP equation

Nov. 15, 2012: Dr. Daniel Munther, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Dynamics of a Three Species Competition Model

Oct. 25, 2012: Dr. Gunog Seo, Department of Mathematics, Ryerson University, Effect of Temporal Variability on Persistence Conditions in Rivers

• Computational Biology (S. Ilie)
This research is concerned with the development and analysis of numerical methods for mathematical models in Life Sciences. A particular focus is on developing effective and accurate algorithms for the numerical solution of biochemical systems. Biochemical systems may be continuous and deterministic, continuous and stochastic, discrete and stochastic or a mixture of these (hybrid models). Typically, these systems are nonlinear and exhibit multiple scales. Applications to studying cellular dynamics and genetic networks are also considered. Recent experimental techniques made it possible to study gene regulatory networks in living cells as well as to generate synthetic gene networks. A successful approach to studying these networks should be based on accurate mathematical models and powerful computational tools to simulate them.

• Mathematical Biology, Boundary Value Problems and Boundary Layer Problems. (K. Lan) Predator-prey systems: The dynamical relationship between predators and their prey, which is one of the most important themes in ecology, can be modeled by establishing predator prey systems of two first-order differential equations with suitable functional responses. The qualitative theories of dynamical systems are used and the dynamical behaviours of such predator-prey systems with initial states near equilibria can be predicted for appropriate ranges of parameters involved. These dynamical behaviours not only provide predication whether the two species will suffer from mutual extinction but also get insight into the optimal management of renewable resources like fishery and forestry.
  
  Boundary value problems: Many problems arising from nonlinear mechanics, engineering, physics and biology can be changed into suitable ordinary, fractional, and partial differential equations with various boundary conditions. In most of these problems, the physical interest lies in the existence and uniqueness of positive solutions of these equations. The main interest is to establish new theories or apply the well-known theories from nonlinear analysis to treat the existence of one or multiple solutions.
  
  In addition, reaction-diffusion equations arising from biology, Falkner-Skan equations arising from boundary layer problems, and variational inequalities and complementarity problems with applications to partial differential inequalities are also under investigation.
  

• Interfacial instabilities in liquid films (J.P. Pascal) Liquid films with a free surface play an important role in many industrial and biological processes as well as phenomena encountered in the natural environment. In manufacturing, for example, liquid films are involved in coating operations. In biophysical applications examples include the tear film covering the eye and the fluid lining of mammalian lungs. Groundwater in unsaturated fractured rock is an example of a fluid film in an environmental setting.
  Liquid films are subject to interfacial instability which can cause the film to rapture forming holes or a pattern resembling fingers. Flowing fluid films are also susceptible to inertial instability which leads to the formation of large amplitude wave structures propagating along the surface. Interfacial instability is often an undesired occurrence since the formation of dry patches or the development of a nonuniform thickness can adversely affect the function of the fluid layer. There are however situations where interfacial instability has a beneficial impact. In heat and mass exchangers, for example, the formation of interfacial waves improves the operation of the device since, as a result, there is an increase in the surface area of the liquid-gas interface which facilitates the heat or mass transport.
  The interfacial stability of fluid films is affected by various factors such as heating and evaporation/condensation, electromagnetic fields and the presence of surfactants (contaminants in the fluid which lower the surface tension). Properties of the substrate (the solid underlying the fluid) such as having a corrugated surface or being composed of a material that is permeable to the fluid, also have an important effect on the stability of the fluid film. Mathematical models which incorporate these factors can be implemented to govern the evolution of the fluid film. They can predict the critical conditions for the onset of instability and the evolution of unstable flows.

• Blood Flow (K. Rohlf) Biological fluids such as blood exhibit complex flow behaviour that can generally be classified as non-Newtonian. Many non-Newtonian models have been used as models for blood so as to investigate the flow behaviour in physiologically meaningful geometries that arise in both healthy and diseased conditions. The majority of these models rest on the assumption that blood can be treated as a continuum, and that this assumption remains valid in all flow geometries.
  The scope of this research is to use particle-based methods to incorporate complex particle interaction (such as aggregation, or the sticking together of red blood cells) in realistic flow geometries to determine the most appropriate flow model in the chosen geometry of interest.

• (Dr. Ilie) Jill Padgett, Farid Gassoumov, Dr. Robert Strehl (co-supervised)
• (Dr. Lan) Click here to see Dr. Lan's students
• (Dr. Pascal) Hom Nath Kandel
• (Dr. Rohlf) Matthew DeClerico, Dr. Robert Strehl (co-supervised)

We are currently accepting graduate students. Please contact the individual faculty member with whom you would like to work.

• Dr. Xi Huo


• Dr. Robert Strehl

Limited postdoctoral positions are available. Please contact the individual faculty member with whom you would like to work.

• Jian Lin

All group members have access to the
RAMLab (Ryerson Applied Mathematics Laboratory).

• Dexter Barrows (MSc candidate, McMaster University), Selina Boatemaa, Fatemeh Bavaghar-Zaeimi (co-supervised), Monjur Morshed (PhD candidate, University of Waterloo), Raju Prasai (graduate candidate, Western University), Alexandra Teslya (PhD candidate, McMaster University), Samaneh Gholami (PhD candidate, York University), Chandra Limbu (PhD candidate, York University), Milan Patel, Ekaterina Kudashkina, Ronak Savani (MEng candidate, Ryerson University), Thai Tran, Romulo Velasquez, Alex Yakobovich (MSc candidate, Ryerson University)
• Click here to see Dr. Lan's former students
• Neil Gonputh
• Tahmina Akhter (PhD candidate, University of Waterloo), Salil Bedkihal (Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University), Prakash Paudel, George McBirnie, Laura Liao (PhD candidate, Ryerson University), Laxmi Regmi, Bhai Adhikari, Pradeep Kunwar (MSc candidate, University of Toronto), Salahaldeen Rabba (PhD candidate, Ryerson University)

(This page is maintained by K. Rohlf. Last updated: January 5, 2015.)