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Selected Talks

Modeling immunity to malaria with an age-structured PDE Framework, Virginia Tech, Mathematical Biology Seminar (March 2022) [Slides] [Paper]
Modeling the invasion wave of Wolbachia in mosquitoes for controlling mosquitoes-borne diseases, SMB Annual meeting, Online (June 2021) [Slides] [Paper]
Staged progression epidemic models for the transmission of invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella (iNTS) with treatment, 3rd Annual Meeting of the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Section, Online (October 2020) [Slides] [Paper]
Network modeling the impact of community-based male-screening on the Chlamydia prevalence in women, Epidemiology Seminar, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University (September 2019) [Slides] [Paper]
Reducing mathematical models for Wolbachia transmission in mosquitoes to control mosquito-borne diseases, Math Department Colloquium, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (October 2018) [Slides] [Paper]
Modeling the transmission of Wolbachia in mosquitoes for controlling mosquito-borne diseases, seminar talk, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University (September 2017) [Event Flyer] [Slides] [Paper]
How Mathematical Models are helping Guide Mitigation Efforts to Control Epidemics, guest lecture, School of Public Health, Georgia State University (May 2017) [Event details]
Fast Operator Splitting Methods for Nonlinear PDEs, PhD defense, Tulane University (April 2016) [Slides]
Efficient, Scalable, and Parallelized Computation of Control Volumes for HPC Finite Volume Based Subsurface Flows and Transport Solvers, SFT Brown Bag Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory (August 2015) [Slides]
Fast and Stable Explicit Operator Splitting Methods for Phase-Field Models, The Ninth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena, Athens, GA. (April 2015) [Slides]
A Fast Explicit Operator Splitting Method for Modified Buckley-Leverett Equations, Seminar Talk, Tulane, LA. (April 2014) [Slides]

Posters

A hierarchy of reduced mathematical models for Wolbachia transmission in mosquitoes to control mosquito-borne diseases, MBI Emphasis Workshop: Multiscale Dynamics of Infections, Ohio State University, OH (April 2018) [Poster]
Modeling the mitigation of dengue fever, chikungunya and Zika by infecting mosquitoes with Wolbachia bacteria, SMB Annual Meeting 2017, Salt Lake City, UT (July 2017) [Poster]
Fast and Stable Explicit Operator Splitting Methods for Phase-Field Models, KI-Net: Collective Dynamics in Biological and Social Systems, Duke University, Durham, NC. (November 2015) [Intro Slides][Poster]
Efficient, Scalable, and Parallelized Computation of Control Volumes for HPC Finite Volume Based Subsurface Flows and Transport Solvers, 2015 Student Symposium: Championing Scientific Careers, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. (August 2015) [Poster]
Fast and Stable Explicit Operator Splitting Methods for Phase-Field Models, Scientific Computing Around Louisiana (SCALA) 2015, New Orleans, LA. (March 2015) [Poster]

Other activities

Model Uncertainty: Mathematical and Statistical (MUMS), SAMSI Opening Workshop, Duke University, Durham, NC (August 2018)
SAMSI program on Quasi-Monte Carlo and High-Dimensional Sampling Methods for Applied Mathematics (QMC): opening workshop, Duke University, Durham, NC (Aug 2017)
9th Annual Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID), Evaluating Vaccine Efficacy module, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (July 2017)
NIMBioS Tutorial on Uncertainty Quantification for Biological Models, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (June 2017)