Linda Rass

 

 

Personal profile

I am senior lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary and Westfield College, which is a School of the University of London. I started out as a statistician/probabilist, but now mainly work in non-linear analysis, working on problems arising in mathematical biology. Some of my work is still probabilistic and I have retained my interest in statistics. I usually attend the Design of Experiments seminars. I also attend individual seminars and series of talks in other seminar groups relevent to my interests.

 

Research interests

Mathematical modelling in biology; epidemics, genetics, evolutionary games, branching processes; deterministic and stochastic modelling; non-spatial and spatial models. I work with a colleague at QMW, Dr John Radcliffe. A recent major project was a research monograph for the American Mathematical Society on deterministic spatial models of epidemics.

 

Recent Publications

  1. J. Radcliffe & L.Rass, Spatial branching and epidemic processes, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mathematical Populations Dynamics 1 1995, 147-170.

  2. J. Radcliffe & L. Rass, Multitype contact branching processes, Lecture Notes in Statistics, 99 , Branching Processes: Proceedings of the First World Congress, Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1995, 169-179.

  3. L. Rass, H.Bahai & I. Esat, A factorial design approach to investigate the effect of geometry in drill string connectors, Journal of Energy Resources Technology 117 1995, 101-107.

  4. J. Radcliffe & L. Rass, Nonlinear equations in multitype epidemics, in Invited Lectures Delivered at the 6th International Colloquium on Differential Equations 2, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1996, 239-248.

  5. J. Radcliffe & L. Rass, The asymptotic behaviour of a reducible system of non-linear integral equations, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 26 (2) 1996, 731-752.

  6. J. Radcliffe & L. Rass, Discrete time spatial models arising in genetics, evolutionary game theory and branching processes, Mathematical Biosciences 140 (2) 1997, 101-129.

  7. J. Radcliffe & L. Rass, Saddle point methods in spatial models of biological systems, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium on Differential Equations, VSP, Zeist 1997, 347-354.

  8. L. Rass & J.Radcliffe, The asymptotic spatial behaviour of a class of epidemic models, Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium on Differential Equations, VSP, Zeist 1997, 355-362.

  9. J. Radcliffe & L.Rass, Spatial Mendelian Games Mathematical Biosciences 151 1998, 191-218.

  10. J. Radcliffe & L.Rass, Convergence results for contact models in genetics and evolutionary game theory, Journal of Biological Systems 6 (4) 1998, 411-426.

  11. J.Radcliffe & L.Rass, Strategic and genetic models of evolution, Mathematical Biosciences 156 1999, 291-307.

  12. L.Rass & J. Radcliffe, The derivation of certain pandemic bounds, Mathematical Biosciences 156 1999, 147-165.

  13. L.Rass & J. Radcliffe, Global asymptotic convergence results for multitype models, Int. J. Appl. Math. and Comp. Sci. 10, (2000), 63-79.

  14. L.Rass & J. Radcliffe, Spatial Deterministic Epidemics, Math. Surveys and Monographs, Vol. 102, American Math. Soc. (2003).

  15. L.Rass, Pandemic bounds for an epidemic on an infinite lattice, Mathematical Biosciences 194 (2), 2005, 194-209.

  16. L.Rass, Convergence results for contact branching processes, Mathematical Biosciences 205, 2007, 59-76.

  17. L.Rass, Asymptotic results for a multi-type contact birth-death process and related SIS epidemic, Mathematical Biosciences 208, 2007, 552-570.

 

Recent conferences

I attend the major mathematical biology conferences. At conferences I have presented talks and been a keynote speaker and session chair. Recent conferences include the triennial International Conference on Mathematical Population Dynamics, the biennial International Conference on Deterministic and Stochastic Modelling of Biointeraction, the World Congress on Branching Processes, the International Colloquium on Differential Equations and the major Amsterdam conference, sponsored by the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, on Theory and Mathematics in Biology and Medicine.