Professor Marie-Therese Wolfram
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Office: C2.21 Phone: +44 (0)24 761 50041 |
Responsibilities 2025/26:
Term 1: MA265 Methods for Mathematical Modelling and MA4M2 Inverse Problems
Office hour: Tuesday 16:00-17:00 in term 1
I am running the EDI committee with James Sprittles.
Research Interests: Applied partial differential equations, mathematical modeling in socio-economic applications and the life sciences, inverse problems.
Upcoming workshops/conferences/seminars
- Speaker at 'Population dynamics: model design, optimisation and control', 13-17 October 2025, Universite Cote D'Azur
- Speaker at 'ProbAI winter school', 5 January - 8 January, Warwick, UK
- Seminar 23 January, Oxford, UK
- Workshop on Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory and Biological Applications, ESI Vienna, 26 January - 1 February, 2026, Vienna, Austria
- Seminar 24 February, Bath, UK
- BIRS-IASM Workshop on 'Interacting Particle Systems: Theoretical Innovations and Practical Applications', IASM, 28 June - 3 July, 2026, Hangzhou, China
- Co-organiser of a Matrix workshop 'From Agent Based Models to Nonlinear PDEs in Life and Social Science', Melbourne, Australia, July 2026.
- ICMS workshop on 'Numerical Methods for Hamilton Jacobi and Mean-Field PDEs', 1-4 Sept, 2026, ICMS Edinburgh
- Durham Symposium on 'Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology: Theory & Applications', 8 - 11 September, 2026, Durham
- Co-organiser of an INI Program on 'Optimal Transport', 2027
Selected publications:
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A. Lachapelle, M.T. Wolfram, On a mean field game approach modeling congestion and aversion in pedestrian crowds , Trans. Res.: Part B 45(10), 2011
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M. Burger, B. Schlake, M.T. Wolfram, Nonlinear Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations for ion flux through confined geometries, Nonlinearity, 25, 961-990, 2012
- M. Burger, L. Cafferelli, P.A. Markowich, M.T. Wolfram, On a Boltzmann type price formation model, Proc. R. Soc. A, 469(2157), 20130126, 2013
- M. Bruna, M. Burger, H. Ranetbauer, M.T. Wolfram, Cross-diffusion systems with excluded volume effects and asymptotic gradient flows, JNLS 27(2), 2016.
- S. Gomes, A. Stuart, M.T. Wolfram, Parameter estimation for macroscopic pedestrian dynamics models from microscopic data, SIAP 79(4)., 2019.
- A. Stuart, M.T. Wolfram, Inverse optimal transport, SIAP 80(1), 2020.
Research grants & Prizes
- Excellence in Gender Equality Award of the University of Warwick, 2023
- Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society, 2023
- Small Grant on 'Online Inverse Optimal Transport for Learning Societal Flows', with A. Duncan, EPSRC, 2022-2023
- Royal Society International Exchange on 'Kinetic opinion formation models for digital sciences', with M. Zanella, Royal Soc, 2022-2024
- Royal Society International Exchange on 'Parameter Estimation in Nonlinear PDE Models for Crowd Motion', with A. Stuart, Royal Soc, 2017-2020
- First Grant on 'Boltzmann-type and mean-field models in socio-economic applications', EPSRC, 2017-2019
- New Frontiers Group on 'Multiscale modelling and simulation of crowded transport in the life and social sciences', Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2014-2020
- Hertha Firnberg Project on 'Computational mean field games and applications', Austrian Science Fund FWF, 2010-2013
Academic services:
- Member of the Young Academy (Austrian Academy of Sciences) from 2014-2022
- Member of the London Mathematical Society, the European Mathematical Society and the European Women in Mathematics
- Member of the Applications and Interdisciplinary Relations (CAIR) committee of the European Mathematical Society
- Associate editor: ESAIM M2AN, Kinetic and Related Models, Transactions of Mathematics and its Applications, SN Partial Differential Equations and Applications.
- Editor: Physica D