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 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, accepted for publication at SIAP, 2019.

Upcoming workshops/conferences/seminars

Invited speaker at workshop on 'Bayesian inverse problems', Feb 6-7, 2020, Caltech, USA
Co-organizer of a BIRS-CMO workshop on 'Kinetic Equations: Recent Developments and Novel Applications', CMO Oaxaca, Mexico, May 4-8, 2020
Speaker at ESI workshop on 'PDE-constrained Bayesian inverse UQ', Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Vienna, Austria May 11-15, 2020
Speaker at a conference on 'Multi-scale modeling for pattern formation in biological systems', Institut Mittag Leffler, Sweden, July 20-24, 2020
Participant at Oberwolfach workshop on 'Variational methods for evolution', Oberwolfach, Sept 13-19, 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 SN Partial Differential Equations and Applications.
Editor of Zeitschrift fuer Angewandte Mathematik und Physik