Dr Marie-Therese Wolfram

Associate Professor (Reader)

Office: C2.04

Phone: +44 (0)24 761 50041
Email: M dot Wolfram at warwick dot ac dot uk

Teaching Responsibilities 2019/20:

Term 1: MA3J4 Mathematical modelling with PDE

Term 2: Optimal transport in statistics, reading group organised with Susana Gomes and Rito Dutta

Research Interests: Applied partial differential equations, mathematical modeling in socio-economic applications and the life sciences, inverse problems.

Selected publications:

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
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.

Upcoming workshops/conferences/seminars

Speaker at conference on 'Interacting particle systems, nonlocal evolution equations and applications', Oxford, June 2020 (postponed), 2020
Participant at MFO workshop on 'Variational methods for evolution', Oberwolfach, Sept 13-19, 2020
Speaker at workshop on 'Social dynamics beyond vehicle autonomy', IPAM, UCLA, Nov 30 - Dec 4, 2020
Co-organiser of a CMO/BIRS workshop on 'Kinetic equations: recent developments and novel applications', CMO Oaxaca, postponed
Speaker at an ICMS workshop on 'Diffusive patterns: pattern formation, birfurcations and biological applications', ICMS Edinburgh, Sept 6-10, 2021
Speaker at workshop on 'PDE constrained Bayesian inversion', ESI Vienna, postponed to 2022

Research grants:

Royal Society International Exchanges on 'Parameter Estimation in Nonlinear PDE Models for Crowd Motion', with A. Stuart, 2017-2020
First Grant on 'Boltzmann-type and mean-field models in socio-economic applications', funded by the EPSRC, 2017-2019
New Frontiers Group on 'Multiscale modelling and simulation of crowded transport in the life and social sciences' funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2014-2020
Hertha Firnberg Project on 'Computational mean field games and applications', funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, 2010-2013

Academic services:

Member of the directorial board of the Young Academy (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Associate editor of Transactions of Mathematics and its Applications, Kinetic and Related Models and SN Partial Differential Equations and Applications.
Editor of Zeitschrift fuer Angewandte Mathematik und Physik