CHARLES S. PESKIN --- PhD THESES ADVISED or co-ADVISED

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1) Theodore S. Feit (1975)
Active state in cardiac muscle

2) H. Michael Lacker (1977)
Cross-bridge dynamics in skeletal muscle: mathematical methods for determining the reaction rate and force-extension curves of cross-bridges from the macroscopic behavior of muscle

3) Anita A. Mayo (1979)
High order accurate solution of Laplace's equation on general regions using intergral equation methods and fast Poisson solvers

4) Eli L. Isaacson (1979)
A numerical method for a finite-depth, two-dimensional model of the inner ear

5) David M. Bellehsen (1979)
Numerical solution of a hyperbolic system of conservation laws for blood flow in the arterial tree

6) Jeffrey M. Augenbaum (1982)
A new Lagrangian method for the shallow water equations

7) Aaron L. Fogelson (1982)
A mathematical model and numerical study of platelet adhesion and aggregation in the early stages of blood clotting

8) Mark L. Cohen (1983)
Reference frame free left ventricular shape, the tangent angle function, and coronary artery disease

9) Diana M. Hull (1984)
Optimal smoothing of Poisson-degraded nuclear medicine image data

10) Mo-Hong Chou (1985)
A numerical method for inviscid two-dimensional flow past an inclined plate

11) Christoph Borgers (1985)
A Lagrangian fractional step method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

12) Arthur S. Sherman (1986)
Random walk methods for reaction diffusion equations

13) Lisa J. Fauci (1986)
A computational model of aquatic animal locomotion

14) Tamar Schlick (1987)
Modeling and minimization techniques for predicting three-dimensional structures of large biological molecules

15) Michael V. Mascagni (1987)
Negative feedback in neural networks

16) Michael H. Weinstein (1988)
An integro-differential equation model for anovulation and the quasisteady state seen in a random, discrete model for ovulation control

17) Cheng Tu (Zheng Du) (1989)
A study of stability in the computation of flows with moving immersed boundaries: A comparison of three methods

18) James Sneyd (1989)
Construction and analysis of a model for phototransduction in turtle cones

19) Frank Elliott Jr (1990)
Continuous and discrete filtering of photon noise in nuclear medicine

20) Beth F. Printz (1992)
Computer modeling of blood flow through the heart during the complete cardiac cycle

21) Madeleine E. Rosar (1994)
A three-dimensional computer model for fluid flow through a collapsible tube

22) Alexandre M. Roma (1996)
A multilevel self adaptive version of the Immersed Boundary Method

23) Hadil G. Sabbagh (1996)
Solving the Navier-Stokes equations on a distributed parallel computer

24) Edward Givelberg (1997)
Modeling elastic shells immersed in fluid

25) Seongwon Kim (1998)
Excitable systems in motion: Interactions between electrical and mechanical activities of the heart

26) Mette S. Olufsen (1998)
Modeling the arterial system with reference to an anesthesia simulator

27) Ming-Chih Lai (1998)
Simulations of the flow past an array of circular cylinders as a test of the immersed boundary method

28) Yong-Chuan Tao (1999)
Simulating the role of microtubules in depolymerization-driven transport: A Monte Carlo approach

29) Mark Slifstein (1999)
An examination of the advantage of frequency decomposition in the cochlea

30) Eunok Jung (1999)
Two-dimensional simulations of valveless pumping using the immersed boundary method

31) Luoding Zhu (2001)
Simulation of a flapping flexible filament in a flowing soap film by the immersed boundary method

32) Sookkyung Lim (2003)
Simulation of the sharp transition from twirling to overwhirling of a rotating elastic filament in a viscous fluid by the immersed boundary method

33) Yongsam Kim (2003)
The penalty immersed boundary method and its application to aerodynamics

34) Paul J. Atzberger (2003)
Stochastic modeling of the kinesin motor protein

35) Daniel B. Forger (2003)
Deterministic and stochastic mathematical modeling and computer simulation of the mammalian intracellular circadian clock

36) Laura A. Miller (2004)
A computational study of flight in the smallest insects

37) Boyce E. Griffith (2005)
Simulating the blood-muscle-valve mechanics of the heart by an adaptive and parallel version of the immersed boundary method

38) Samuel A. Isaacson (2005)
Stochastic reaction-diffusion methods for modeling gene expression and spatially distributed chemical kinetics

39) Karim Azer (2006)
A one-dimensional model of blood flow in arteries with friction, convection and unsteady Taylor diffusion based on the Womersley velocity profile

40) Arjun Raj (2006)
Stochastic processes in cell biology

41) Yoichiro Mori (2006)
A three-dimensional model of cellular electrical activity

42) Luca Heltai (2006)
The finite element immersed boundary method

43) Y. Richard Yamada (2007)
Quantitative models of transcriptional elongation

44) Shih-Ting Huang (2007)
On the mechanism of forward motion during flapping flight: Numerical simulation by the immersed boundary method

45) Pilhwa Lee (2007)
The immersed boundary method with advection-electrodiffusion

46) Thomas T. Bringley (2008)
Analysis of the immersed boundary method for Stokes flow

47) Paul E. Hand (2009)
Homogenization in cardiac electrophysiology and blow-up in bacterial chemotaxis

48) Ignacio A. Rodriguez Brenes (2009)
A mathematical model of telomere length regulation and cellular senescence

49) Estee Stern (2011)
Mathematical model and numerical simulation of a neuromuscular system with feedback

50) Jinguo Zhao (2011)
Aerodynamics of seed dispersal

51) Piriyadharshini Devendran (2012)
An immersed boundary energy-based method for incompressible viscoelasticity

52) Adam R. Stinchcombe (2013)
New approaches to modeling stochastic gene expression

53) Andrew Matteson (2013)
Computational methods in model merging with applications to pharmaceutical development

54) Yungkwon Kim (2014)
The effect of inhibitory feedback in a small neural network

55) Thomas G. Fai (2014)
Fluid mechanics of the red blood cell and its cytoskeleton by an immersed boundary method with nonuniform viscosity and density

56) Chen-Hung Wu (2014)
Simulation of osmotic swelling and osmotic pumping by the stochastic immersed boundary method

57) Ruth Griswold (2015)
Mathematical modeling of metastatic growth in the lymphatic vessels

58) Shoshana R. Leffler (2016)
A mathematical model of cerebellar granule cell development

59) Karen M. Ong (2016)
A mathematical model of pathogen colonization and transmission within hospital units

60) Jihun Han (2017)
Spontaneous oscillation and fluid-structure interaction of cilia

61) Alexander D. Kaiser (2017)
Modeling the mitral valve

62) Guanyu Wang (2018)
Entrainment of stochastic oscillators with application to a cellular circadian model entrained by light in the presence of molecular noise

63) JinHyun Kim (2019)
Extreme single-file diffusion and its application to Mg2+ block of the NMDA receptor ion channel

64) Zhe Chen (2023)
A Fourier spectral immersed boundary method with exact translation invariance, improved boundary resolution, and a divergence-free velocity field

65) Guanchun Li (2023)
Computational modeling on biochemical description of early long-term potentiation/depression