Mark A. Lewis

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Mark Alun Lewis (* 1962 ) is a Canadian mathematician who studies mathematical biology and population biology.

Lewis graduated from the University of Victoria with a bachelor's degree in biology, math, and computer science in 1987 . He received his PhD in Mathematical Biology (Analysis of Dynamic and Stationary Biological Pattern Formation) in 1990 from James D. Murray at Oxford University . As a post-doctoral student, he was at the University of Washington with James Murray (who went there from Oxford) and Peter Kareiva . There he began to deal with mathematical population biology and ecology. He then became an assistant professor at the University of Utah and later became a professor at the University of Alberta .

Among other things, he modeled the advance of invasive species and the spatial formation of territorial territories by wolf packs, and dealt with optimal control of populations and the effects of habitat fragmentation on populations. He works closely with biologists and uses analytical, perturbative and numerical methods to solve the mathematical equations that arise (often nonlinear partial differential equations, integro-differential equations and their discretized counterparts and stochastic equations).

He was president of the Society of Mathematical Biology and co-editor of the Journal of Mathematical Biology.

In 2011 he received the CRM Fields PIMS Prize . In 2015 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada . From 1994 to 1996 he was a Sloan Research Fellow .

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Books:

  • with PK Maini and S. Petrovskii: Dispersal, Individual Movement and Spatial Ecology: A Mathematical Perspective. Springer-Verlag, 2012.
  • with MAJ Chaplain, JP Keener and PK Maini (eds.): Mathematical Biology. Institute for Advanced Study / Park City Mathematics Institute, Vol. 14, 2009.
  • with RP Keller, DM Lodge and JF Shogren (eds.): Bioeconomics of Invasive Species: Integrating Ecology, Economics and Management. Oxford University Press 2009.
  • with P. Moorcroft: Mechanistic Home Range Analysis. Princeton Monograph in Population Biology, 2006.
  • with G. de Vries, T. Hillen, J. Müller and B. Schonfisch: A Course in Mathematical Biology: Quantitative Modeling with Mathematical and Computational Methods. SIAM Press, 2006.
  • with HG Othmer, FR Adler and JC Dallon: Mathematical Modeling in Biology: Case Studies in Ecology, Physiology and Cell Biology. Prentice Hall, 1997.

Some essays:

  • PK Molnar, AE Derocher, MA Lewis, MA Taylor: Modeling the mating system of polar bears - a mechanistic approach to the Allee effect. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. Volume 275, 2008, pp. 217-226.
  • R. Eftimie, G. de Vries, MA Lewis: Complex spatial group patterns result from different animal communication mechanisms. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume 104, 2007, pp. 6974-6979.
  • MA Lewis, J. Renclawowicz, P. van den Driessche, M. Wonham: A comparison of continuous and discrete time West Nile virus models. In: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. Volume 68, 2006, pp. 491-509.
  • M. Krkošek, BM Connors, A. Morton, MA Lewis, LM Dill, R. Hilborn: Effects of parasites from salmon farms on productivity of wild salmon. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume 108, 2011, pp. 14700-14704.
  • F. Lutscher, E. Pachepsky, MA Lewis: The effect of dispersal patterns on stream populations. In: SIAM Review. Volume 47, 2005, pp. 749-772.
  • MA Lewis, B. Li, HF Weinberger: Spreading speed and the linear determinacy for two-species competition models. In: Journal of Mathematical Biology. Volume 45, 2002, pp. 219-233.
  • MA Lewis, KAJ White, JD Murray: Analysis of a model for wolf territories. In: Journal of Mathematical Biology. Volume 35, 1997, pp. 749-774.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark A. Lewis in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ RSC Class of 2015. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Lewis, Mark A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lewis, Mark Alun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1962