Dr Marie-Therese Wolfram

Associate Professor

Office: C2.04

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

Teaching Responsibilities 2018/19 Applied PDE models in the life and social sciences at the TU Munich, see GitLab page

Research Interests: Partial differential equations, mathematicl modeling in socio-economic applications and the life sciences, numerical analysis

Selected publications:

A. Lachapelle, M.T. Wolfram, On a mean field game approach modeling congestion and aversion in pedestrian crowds , Trans. Res.: Part B: Methodological, 45(10), 1572-1589, 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, M. Di Francesco, P.A. Markowich, M.T. Wolfram, Mean field games with nonlinear mobilities in pedestrian dynamics, Discrete and Dynamical Systems - B, 19(5), 1311-1333, 2014
M. Burger, S. Hittmeir, H. Ranetbauer, M.T. Wolfram, Lane formation by side-stepping, SIAM Math. Anal., 48(2), 981-1005, 2016.
M. Burger, A. Lorz, M.T. Wolfram, On a Boltzmann type model for knowledge growth, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 76(5), 1799-1818, 2016.
M. Bruna, M. Burger, H. Ranetbauer, M.T. Wolfram, Cross-diffusion systems with excluded volume effects and asymptotic gradient flows, Journal of Nonlinear Science 27(2), 2016.
S. Gomes, A. Stuart, M.T. Wolfram, Parameter estimation for macroscopic pedestrian dynamics models from microscopic data, submitted, 2018.

Upcoming workshops/conferences/seminars

Co-organizer of a mini-symposium on 'Recent advances in PDE models describing emergent behavior and collective dynamics', British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, April 24-26, 2019, Bath, UK.
Speaker at a mini-symposium on 'Optimal transport in the analysis of signals and images', British Applied Math Colloquium, April 24-26, 2019, Bath, UK.
Speaker at a workshop on 'Data assimilation: methodology and applications', Centre de Recherches Mathematique (CRM), May 15-17, 2019 Montreal, Canada.
Speaker at the 8th workshop on 'Parallel-in-Time Integration', May 20-24, 2019, IAS Bielefeld, Germany.
Speaker at summer school on 'Trails in kinetic theory: foundational aspects and numerical methods', Junior Trimester Program on Kinetic Theory, May 20-24, 2019, HIM Bonn, Germany.
Co-organizer of a CIRM workshop on 'Crowds: models and control', June 3-7, 2019, CIRM, Marseille, France.
Co-organizer of an ICIAM mini-symposium on 'Modeling and calibration in pedestrian dynamics', ICIAM, July 15-19, 2019, Valencia, Spain.
Speaker at a workshop on 'Emergent phenomena - from kinetic models to social hydrodynamics', held within IMS thematic program on 'Quantum and Kinetic Problems: Modeling, Analysis, Numerics and Applications', Dec 16-20, 2019, IMS, Singapore.
Speaker at ESI workshop on 'PDE-constrained Bayesian inverse UQ', Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Vienna, Austria May 2020
Co-organizer of a BIRS-CMO workshop on 'Kinetic Equations: Recent Developments and Novel Applications', CMO Oaxaca, Mexico, May 2020

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 Springer Nature Partial Differential Equations and Applications.