Dr Marie-Therese Wolfram
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Dr Marie-Therese WolframAssociate Professor (Reader) Office: C2.04 Phone: +44 (0)24 761 50041 |
Teaching Responsibilities 2020/21:
Term 1: MA3J4 Mathematical modelling with PDE (Not running 2020-21)
Term 2: MA957 Topics in Optimal Transport
I am co-organising the reading group on Optimal Transport in Statistics this year.
Research Interests: Applied partial differential equations, mathematical modeling in socio-economic applications and the life sciences, inverse problems.
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.
Upcoming workshops/conferences/seminars
- Speaker at Purdue Mathematical Data Science Seminar, Feb 22, 2021.
- Speaker at conference on 'Scaling cascades in complex systems', FU Berlin, Germany, March 1-3, 2021.
- Speaker at workshop on 'Recent Advances in gradient flows, kinetic theory and reaction diffusion equations', IST Austria, Vienna, July 13-16, 2021.
- Speaker at the EWM-EMS Summer School on 'Multiscale modeling for pattern formation in biological systems', Institut Mittag-Leffler, July 19-23, 2021.
- Speaker at an ICMS workshop on 'Diffusive patterns: pattern formation, birfurcations and biological applications', ICMS Edinburgh, Sept 6-10, 2021.
- Co-organiser of an IMSI workshop on 'Mean field models for interacting agents', with A. Cesaroni, Q. Du and B. Piccoli, Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Statistical Innovation, Chicago USA, Nov 1-4, 2021.
- Speaker at workshop on 'PDE constrained Bayesian inversion', ESI Vienna, Austria, May to June 2022.
- Co-organiser of an ICMS workshop on 'Connections between interacting particle dynamics and data science', with S. Gomes and M. Ottobre, Isle of Skye, Scotland, May 2022.
- Co-organiser of a BIRS/CMO workshop on 'Kinetic equations: recent developments and novel applications', CM Oaxaca, Oct 30-Nov 4, 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 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