Project Info Mathematical modeling of blood coagulation Karin Leiderman | kleiderman@mines.edu A break in a blood vessel triggers the process of blood coagulation, designed to seal the injury. Coagulation begins when tissue factor (TF) in the damaged vessel wall...
Project Info * Modeling the Synchronization of Cilia Outside a Sphere Karin Leiderman | kleiderman@mines.edu Cilia are present on any types of cells and have a myriad of functions. A common feature is the coordinated beating of groups of cilia, and much research has...
Project Info Multiscale modeling of circadian rhythms in neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus Cecilia Behn | cdinizbe@mines.edu The molecular clock within the SCN operates on a 24h timescale to modulate the electrical activity of SCN neurons on a ms timescale....
Project Info Investigating Discrete Fractional Calculus Kevin Ahrendt | kahrendtmines.edu In a typical calculus course, students learn about first order derivatives, second order derivatives, and so on. This may lead one to ask the question, is there such a thing as a...
Project Info Active Subspaces in Landau Damping Steve Pankavich | pankavic@mines.edu Active subspace analysis is an emerging computational tool to identify and exploit the most important directions in the space of a model’s input parameters. These directions...
