Associate Professor Natalia Komarova

Department of Mathematics,
University of California - Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697

Natalia Komarova's CV and publications

Research interests

My interests lie in the interface between mathematical and life sciences. I try to formulate interesting questions in areas of biology, medical and social sciences and linguistics, in the language of mathematics. Then I try to find answers to these questions by using techniques of applied math. My two main interests are modeling of cancer and evolution of language. Follow the links for more information.

- Modeling of cancer - Research description - Publications on cancer modeling

- Other topics in mathematical biology (biophysics, virus dynamics, signaling networks) - Publications

- Mathematical modeling of learning and evolution of language, historical dynamics - Research description - Publications

Research group

Erin Brown (Math PhD Student): Spatial patterns of cancer mutant spread.

Albert Farre (Phd lab rotation student, MCSB): Statistics of Alzheimer's disease.

Amanda Grummon (Math Undergraduate student): Mathematical modeling of language learning from an inconsistent input.

Allen Katouli (Math PhD Student): Stochastic modeling of drug resistance in cancer.

Ray Mendoza (PhD student, IMBS): From syntax to semantics: syntactic word clustering.

Wu Min (Phd lab rotation student, MCSB): Mathematical modeling of neuronal stem cell aging.

Craig Thalhauser (postdoctoral fellow): Systems biology; spatial stochastic processes.

Book

Wodarz, D. and Komarova. N.L. (2005) Computational Biology of Cancer: Lecture notes and mathematical modeling. World Scientific Publishing.

Teaching

Fall 2008, Math 112A, Introduction to partial differential equations.

Fall 2007, Math 205A , Introduction to Graduate Analysis.

Spring 2007, Math 291C , Topics in Appl/Comp Math: Mathematical Methods in Biology II.

Winter 2007, Math 291B , Topics in Appl/Comp Math: Mathematics of Complex Systems.

Fall 2006, Math 112A, Introduction to partial differential equations.

Spring 2006, Math 291C, Mathematical Modeling of cancer.

Winter 2005, Math 112B, Introduction to partial differential equations.

Winter 2005, Bio 169, Quantitative methods in biology.

Fall 2004, Math 112A, Introduction to partial differential equations.

Mail to komarova_at_math.uci.edu