NSF/DHS FODAVA - MSU Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics

We participated in the second and third FODAVA Annual Review Meetings, Dec.3-4, 2009 and December 9-10, 2010, respectively. In the 2009 meeting, we gavean introduction to MSU project on Differential geometry approach for virussurface formation, evolution and visualization. In particular, we emphasizedthe use of differential geometry theory of surfaces for image visualization andimage understanding. In the 2010 meeting, we discussed the emergence ofcomplexity in self-organizing biological systems, such as viruses. We reportedthe MSU effort in  the development of multiscale,multiphysics, coarse-graining models based ondifferential geometric and topological concepts, such as  Eulerian characteristic, Frenetframes, persistently stable  invariant manifold, etc,for the dimensionality reduction and information extraction from massivedynamics data. 

In earlier Spring of 2010, the MSU FODAVA team  invitedProfessor Haomin Zhou, FODAVA-lead team SeniorPersonnel (Georgia Tech) to join the MSU FODAVA team. Haominvisited MSU in  April 2010. With Haomin's expertise on dynamical systems, we developed newapproaches of using the KAM theorem to describe the stability and persistenceof quasi-periodic motions under some perturbations; the use of  Nekhoroshev estimates to analyze the reliability of a givencoarse graining model obtained with a specific strength of perturbation; andthe use of the central manifold theorem for dimensionality reduction. Haomin has been working closely with the MSU team since Spring 2010.

Below is a list of conferences and meetings organized or attended related toFODAVA.

* Oxford Workshop on Mathematical Modelling of IonChannels, University of Oxford, UK, September 5-6, 2011.

* 2nd Midwest Conference on Mathematical Methods for Images andSurfaces, Lansing, August 27-28, 2011.

* 2011 Telluride Ion Channel Biophysics Workshop, TellurideIntermediate School, Telluride CO, August 8-12, 2011.
* 2011 International Conference on Applied Mathematics and InterdisciplinaryResearch, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, June13-15, 2011.
* Modeling and computation of biomolecular structureand dynamics, Mathematical Bioscience Institute, April 25-29, 2011.
* Modeling and Numerical PDEs in Mathematical Biology and Applications, OaklandUniversity, April 16, 2011.
* Modeling electrostatics in molecular biology: Computational methods forsolving the Poisson-Boltzmann equation and further development of DelPhi,  Clemson University,Clemson, SC, April 4-6, 2011.
* 2nd International Conference on Computational & Mathematical BiomedicalEngineering George Mason University, Washington D.C., USA, March 30-April 1,2011.
* Second Africa Conference on Computational Mechanics, Cape Town, South Africa,January 5-8, 2011.
* NSF/DHS  annual FODAVA  Review, Georgia Tech, December 9-10, 2010.
* Workshop on Nano-Bio Mathematics and Mechanics, East Lansing, August 5, 2010.
* 2010 Annual  Meeting  of  The  Society of Mathematical  Biology, Rio  de  Janerio, Brazil, July 26 - July 29, 2010
* 2010 NIMS Summer School on Stochastic/Multiscalemethods and their applications, Soongsil University,South Korea, June 17-25, 2010.

* Frontiers in  Mathematical  Biology: NSF-NIH PIs  Meeting 2010, University of Maryland, College Park, MD April 26-27,2010
* 2010 SIAM conference, great lake section, U of Michigan-Dearborn, April 17,2010
* Southwest  Conference on  Integrated  Mathematical Methods in  Medical  Imaging, Arizona State University, February 6 -7, 2010
* International Conference on Advances in Scientific Computing,  BrownUniversity, December 6-8, 2009
* NSF/DHS  annual FODAVA  Review,  Georgia Tech, December 3-4,2009
* International Workshop on Continuum Modeling of Biomolecules, Beijing,September 14-17, 2009
* Workshop on Nano-Bio Mathematics, East Lansing, August 4, 2009.