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Carlos
Castillo-Chavez, professor of biomathematics and director of the Cornell
Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI), has been named
the 2003 Stanislaw M. Ulam Distinguished Scholar by the Center for
Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Castillo-Chavez
is spending this year at CNLS supervising seven MTBI alumni, most of
them American Latino Ph.D.'s and graduate students, in a program of
diversified research. The research projects include influenza dynamics,
dengue dynamics, homeland security and the study of epidemics on
networks. Five of his collaborators are recipients of Cornell-Sloan
fellowships in the mathematical and statistical sciences, a program that
Castillo-Chavez founded in 1997 and now directs. MTBI
is a summer research program designed for undergraduates in the
mathematical and biological sciences. Applications are encouraged from
Latino, African-American, Native-American, and other minority
students. Castillo-Chavez's
most recent accolade was the prestigious Distinguished Scientist Award
by the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in
Science in 2001. He is a native of Mexico who received his Ph.D. in
mathematics at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1984. He began at Cornell in 1985 as
a postdoctoral student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology. He joined the Cornell faculty as an assistant professor of
biomathematics in 1988 and was promoted
to full professor in 1997. He
currently holds joint appointments in the departments of Statistics,
Biological Statistics and Computational Biology and Theoretical and
Applied Mechanics. The annual Ulam award honors the memory of the late Polish-American mathematician who was among the founders of what is now known as nonlinear science. He played a central role in the Manhattan Project, both during and after World War II. With physicist John van Neumann he developed the trial-and-error technique known as the Monte Carlo method. [Click Here for short detailed biography]
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