COVID-19 Spatial Modeling: Optimizing PDE & Metapopulation Models for Prediction/Spread Mitigation

SPEAKER: Zoi Rapti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. Her research focus is on nonlinear dynamics with applications to mathematical biology (DNA denaturation, epidemiology, community assembly, phage-bacteria interactions, data-theory coupling) and physics (Nonlinear Schrodinger-type equations, discrete Klein-Gordon equations). Rapti holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.