ZIH-Kolloquium: "Tiny Giants - Mathematics Looks at Zooplankton"

Date

Mar 31, 2022

Time

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Language

en

Main Topic

Informatik

Other Topics

Informatik

Description

Zooplankton is an immensely diverse group of organisms occupying every corner of the oceans, seas, and freshwater bodies on earth. They form a crucial link between autotrophic phytoplankton and higher trophic levels such as crustaceans, mollusks, fish, and marine mammals. Changing water temperatures, salinities and decreasing pH values currently create monumental challenges to their well-being. A significant subgroup of zooplankton are crustaceans of sizes between 1 and 10 mm. They have extremely acute senses that allow them to navigate their surroundings, escape predators, find food and mate. In a series of works with Rudi Strickler (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) he has investigated various behaviors of crustacean zooplankton. These include the visualization of the feeding current of the calanoid copepod Leptodiaptomus sicilis and the communication by sex pheromones in the copepod Temora longicornis. In these studies, tools from optics, ecology, computational fluid dynamics, and computational neuroscience are used.

Peter Hinow received a Diplom-Mathematiker from the Technische Universität Dresden and a PhD in Mathematics from the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee in 2007. This was followed by a postdoc at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota. Since 2009 he has been on the faculty of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. His primary interests are mathematical modeling of drug delivery to the brain using ultrasound-sensitive liposomes and the behavioral ecology of zooplankton. 

The colloquium is free of charge. Language: English
For joining this lecture please use the following link:

• For participants with ZIH login: Link Online Colloquium (https://selfservice.zih.tu-dresden.de/l/link.php?m=176972&p=530b7ac4)
• For participants without university login: Link Online Colloquium (https://selfservice.zih.tu-dresden.de/link.php?m=176972&p=b4c563ae)

Links

• Termindetails auf den Webseiten der TU Dresden (https://tu-dresden.de)

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