SPEED Lab Former Members

This was the group as of Fall 2005:

(Amanda, Jen, David H., Ben, David G.)

Faculty

Tod Shockey Dr. Tod Shockey
Associate Prof., Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Dr. Shockey works in mathematics education, with a focus on ethnomathematics. He has previously worked as a classroom teacher, and has many ties to various Native American communities. While at UMaine, Tod interacted regaularly with students and teachers at the Beatrice Rafferty School in Pleasant Point, Maine, at times on activities related to the SPEED Lab. In Fall 2009, Tod moved to the University of Toledo.

Students

Ashley Coe
Undergraduate Student
Ashley was a Wildlife Ecology major, and in Fall 2007 worked with Dr. Hiebeler and Dr. Drummond on a simulation model of invading Asian woodwasps.

Amanda Criner
Undergraduate Student
Amanda did her B.A. in math, and worked on a variety of spatial epidemiological models with me from Fall 2004--Fall 2006, primarily household-structured models. She also attended MTBI in summer 2005. She is currently working on a PhD in Applied Math at North Carolina State University.

David Gosselin
Undergraduate Student
David was in the Honors College; from Fall 2005--Spring 2006, he worked with me on ways to more efficiently simulate spatial stochastic population models, and on measuring some spatial and temporal features of the distribution of hosts in Internet address space. In Jan. 2007, David finished his honors thesis on ``Disease Spreading Across Social Networks.'' I was a committee member; Larry Latour in computer science was advisor. David is now working as a software engineer for BAE Systems in New Hampshire.

Jennifer Houle
Undergraduate Student
Jennifer was in the Honors College. Jennifer spent the 2004-2005 academic year studying abroad in Ireland, and worked with me from Fall 2005--Spring 2006. She finished her undergraduate honors thesis with me in May 2006 on "A spatial population model on a dynamic heterogeneous landscape", and then attended MTBI in summer 2006. She subsequently got a master's degree in Music Technology at University of Limerick in Ireland, and then worked for a private company for some time. In Feb. 2009, she entered a mathematical biology PhD program in the School of Biological Sciences at Queen's University Belfast (Ireland).

Ben Morin
Graduate Student
Ben worked with me from Spring 2005--Spring 2006; he finished his M.A. in math with me in May 2006. His thesis was on "The effect of static and dynamic spatially structured disturbances on a locally dispersing population model". He attended MTBI in summer 2005 and 2006 (and has worked for the program in many summers since). Ben went to Oregon State University for two years in their Ecosystem Informatics IGERT graduate program, before moving to the PhD program in Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences at Arizona State University.

Pam Reitsma
Undergraduate Student
Pam was an undergraduate in Math, with minors in human nutrition and neuroscience. She finished her degree in December 2007. Pam was a loosely-affiliated member of the group around 2006-2007; she did a bit with spatial population models, but then became more interested in neurobiology. Pam attended MTBI in summer 2006 and 2007. Pam entered the PhD program in Math at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2008.

Tyler Rigazio
Undergraduate Student
Tyler is a double major in Surveying Engineering Technology and Mathematics, and joined the group at the end of Fall 2007. After going through training materials in Spring 2008, he participated in MTBI in summer 2008, and worked a bit in Fall 2008 on measuring contiguous population clusters from lattice simulation models.

	Ashley Coe Undergraduate Student Ashley was a Wildlife Ecology major, and in Fall 2007 worked with Dr. Hiebeler and Dr. Drummond on a simulation model of invading Asian woodwasps.
	Amanda Criner Undergraduate Student Amanda did her B.A. in math, and worked on a variety of spatial epidemiological models with me from Fall 2004--Fall 2006, primarily household-structured models. She also attended MTBI in summer 2005. She is currently working on a PhD in Applied Math at North Carolina State University.
	David Gosselin Undergraduate Student David was in the Honors College; from Fall 2005--Spring 2006, he worked with me on ways to more efficiently simulate spatial stochastic population models, and on measuring some spatial and temporal features of the distribution of hosts in Internet address space. In Jan. 2007, David finished his honors thesis on ``Disease Spreading Across Social Networks.'' I was a committee member; Larry Latour in computer science was advisor. David is now working as a software engineer for BAE Systems in New Hampshire.
	Jennifer Houle Undergraduate Student Jennifer was in the Honors College. Jennifer spent the 2004-2005 academic year studying abroad in Ireland, and worked with me from Fall 2005--Spring 2006. She finished her undergraduate honors thesis with me in May 2006 on "A spatial population model on a dynamic heterogeneous landscape", and then attended MTBI in summer 2006. She subsequently got a master's degree in Music Technology at University of Limerick in Ireland, and then worked for a private company for some time. In Feb. 2009, she entered a mathematical biology PhD program in the School of Biological Sciences at Queen's University Belfast (Ireland).
	Ben Morin Graduate Student Ben worked with me from Spring 2005--Spring 2006; he finished his M.A. in math with me in May 2006. His thesis was on "The effect of static and dynamic spatially structured disturbances on a locally dispersing population model". He attended MTBI in summer 2005 and 2006 (and has worked for the program in many summers since). Ben went to Oregon State University for two years in their Ecosystem Informatics IGERT graduate program, before moving to the PhD program in Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences at Arizona State University.
	Pam Reitsma Undergraduate Student Pam was an undergraduate in Math, with minors in human nutrition and neuroscience. She finished her degree in December 2007. Pam was a loosely-affiliated member of the group around 2006-2007; she did a bit with spatial population models, but then became more interested in neurobiology. Pam attended MTBI in summer 2006 and 2007. Pam entered the PhD program in Math at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2008.
	Tyler Rigazio Undergraduate Student Tyler is a double major in Surveying Engineering Technology and Mathematics, and joined the group at the end of Fall 2007. After going through training materials in Spring 2008, he participated in MTBI in summer 2008, and worked a bit in Fall 2008 on measuring contiguous population clusters from lattice simulation models.