Louis J Gross
http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~gross/
Welcome to the WWW Home Page of
Welcome to the WWW Home Page of
Louis J. Gross
Louis J. Gross
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics
Director, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
Director, The Institute for Environmental Modeling
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1610
Past-President, The Society for Mathematical Biology
Past-President, Faculty Senate, University of Tennessee, Knoxville , here is Past-President's page from 2007-2008, and here is President's page from 2006-2007
NIMBioS - National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
The Institute for Environmental Modeling
Mathematical and Computational Ecology at UTK
Workshop on Computational Science for Natural Resource Managers
Grid Computing for Ecological Modeling and Spatial Control
Some of my Current Professional Activities - or Why I may not reply to your email immediately!
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Mathematical ecology
- Computational ecology
- Quantitative training for life science students
- Landscape ecology
- Plant physiological ecology
- Photosynthetic dynamics
- Individual-based models
- Parallel computation for ecological models
TALKS - Some Recent Presentations
Some Dance, Folk Music and Laurel Theatre Info
My Various Guides to Concert Sound and Live Audio
Some interesting biologically related sites
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS
- ATLSS: Across Trophic Level System Simulation for the Everglades/Big Cypress Region of South Florida Page
- Fish slides from ATLSS in WCA2A Page
- Computational Ecology - Key Open Problems - Contribution to Workshop on Computational Ecology at San Diego Super Computer Center, September, 1995 Text file
- Computational Grid - Summary of SInRG computational grid partnership based in UTK Computer Science DepartmentNews Release and SInRG Home page is here
- Computational Ecology - Article in the Ecological Society of America NewSource June 1999 featuring interview with meWeb Page Text version
- Mathematical ecology and parallel computing: Biological data on individuals and small groups form basis for simulations of communities of interacting species. Science Alliance News Online Interview.
- Individual-based ecological models for spatially-explicit investigation and computational ecology. Handout Third Autumn Workshop on Mathematical Ecology, Trieste, Italy, October 1996. Text file
- Use of Biophysical Models for Ecological Assessments: Applications in the Southeastern United States (funded by EPA)Dec. 1996 News report is here )
- Parallel Computation and Ecological Models (First Annual summary report to NSF is here and Final Report is here )
- QEIB: Spatially-distributed population models with external forcing and spatial control (NSF Award DMS-0110920): (First Annual summary report to NSF is here )
- ITR: Parallel and grid computing for ecological multimodeling (NSF Award DEB-0219269) GEM Website
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Alternative routes to quantitative literacy for life science students Home Page
- Quantitative Curriculum for Life Science students Home Page
- Short Courses on the Mathematics of Biological Complexity Home Page
- Education for Math Biology Resources Home Page
- Mathematics Archives Life Science Collection Home Page
- MAA Session on Interdisciplinary Programs with Undergraduate Mathematics - Orlando January '96 Home Page
- Menstrual Cycling Software - MENSTRUA - a UTK CharityWare Release Home Page
- Project Extend Interview with me on the topic: Adopting an Interdisciplinary Paradigm
- My listing of key quantitative concepts for undergraduate biology students
- AIBS Actionbioscience interview with me on Computational Skills for Biology Students - June 2006
SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Published WWW version here
- Approaches to Large-scale Ecosystem Modeling Across Multiple Trophic Levels: Some Early Lessons from the South Florida ATLSS Experience From: J. B. Waide and L. M. Gandy (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Aquatic Ecosystem Modeling and Assessment Techniques for Application within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. pp. 71-76, April 1998. Waterways Experiment Station Miscellaneous Paper EL-98-1. Postscript file (40K)
- Computational Ecology: Environmental Problem Solving for the New Millennium Postscript file (124K)
- Mentoring in a Distributed World. D-Lib Magazine September 1998 Link to On-Line Editorial
- USE OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND MODELS - Draft of article for Encyclopedia of Biodiversity Postscript file Figure 1Figure 2 Figure 3
- Multimodeling: New approaches for linking ecological models - Draft of article for 1999 Symposium on Predicting Plant and Animal Occurrences: Issues of Scale and Accuracy Postscript file Figure 1
- Comiskey, E. J., O. L. Bass, Jr., L. J. Gross, R. T. McBride, and R. Salinas. 2002. Panthers and forests in South Florida: an ecological perspective. Conservation Ecology 6(1): 18.
- Brewer, C. A. and L. J. Gross. 2003. Training ecologists to think with uncertainty in mind. Ecology 84:1412-1414.
- Whither Mathematical Biology? Some Remarks upon becoming President of the Society for Mathematical Biology - August 2003 (Web version of article for Fall 2003 SMB Newsletter)
- Some comments on education from the SMB President (Web version of article for January 2004 SMB Newsletter)
- Janet H. Rock, Brian Beckage and Louis J. Gross. 2004. Population recovery following differential harvesting of Allium triococcum Ait. in the southern Appalachians. Biological Conservation 116: 227-234. and comments on the impacts of this work in changing harvesting regulations is in this issue of "A Walk in the Woods" from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- "Some lessons from fifteen years of educational initiatives at the interface between mathematics and biology: the entry-level course" for MAA Notes volume on Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences (pdf document)
- "Fuller, M.M., L.J. Gross, S.M. Duke-Sylvester and M. Palmer. 2008. Testing the robustness of management decisions to uncertainty: Everglades restoration scenarios. Ecological Applications 18(3):711-723" (pdf document)
- Appendix A: Management Background and description of model parameters (pdf document)
- "Travis, C. B., L. J. Gross, B. A. Johnson. 2009. Tracking the Gender Gap: A case study. Psychology of Women Quarterly 33:410-418" (pdf document)
- Report on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based on Gender - April 28, 2007 (pdf document)
- Addendum to Report on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based on Gender - June 28, 2007 (Word document)
- Report to the UTK Faculty Senate Budget and Planning Committee on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based upon Gender using Data from Fall 2007 - April 7, 2008 (pdf document)
TALKS - Some Recent Presentations
- Lecture Notes from Beijer Institute Advanced Course on Ecological Modeling, December 1998
- Centripetals Talk at UTK January 20, 1999 on Computational Ecology: Environmental Problem Solving for the 21st Century Text of Talk
- Notes from Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, August 1999 on Quantitative Training in the Life Sciences: Designing an Undergraduate Curriculum in Computational Biology Text of Talk, Postscript version
- Schedule of talks presented at "Modиles et thйories pour le contrфle de ressources vivantes et la gestion de systиmes йcologiques - PROGRAMME DE L'ЙCOLE DE PRINTEMPS" Grignon, France, May 2000 Program and photos
- Poster presented at the Orlando Joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America and the British Ecological Society on Spatially-Explicit Species Index Models in Application to Everglades Restoration Powerpoint file
- Poster presented at the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Science Conference on Spatially-Explicit Species Index Models in Application to Everglades Restoration Powerpoint file
- Poster presented at the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Science Conference on A Simulation Model for Florida panthers and white-tailed deer in the Everglades and Big Cypress Landscape Powerpoint file
- Poster presented at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting in 2000 by Rene' Salinas on Sensitivity Analysis of a Spatially Explicit Fish Population Model Applied to Everglades Restoration Powerpoint file
- Poster presented at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting in 2001 by Louis J. Gross and E. Jane Comiskey on Modeling Animal Movements: Current Approaches and Challenges Powerpoint file
- Talk to NSF Workshop on Priorities in Ethnobiology, Missouri Boranical Garden, April 4-6, 2002 Text file
- Talk presented at the National Academies of Science public briefing on the Bio2010 Project, September 10, 2002 on "Quantitative Education for Life Sciences: Lessons from the Tennessee Experience" Powerpoint file
- Talk presented at the National Academies of Science Mathematical Sciences Education Board, November 1, 2002 on "Quantitative Education for Life Sciences: BIO2010 and Beyond" Powerpoint file
- Keynote Talk presented at the NIH/NIGMS/NSF/MAA Conference: Meeting the Challenges in Emerging Areas: Education across the Biological, Mathematical, and Computer Sciences, March 1, 2003 on "Quantitative Education for Life Sciences: BIO2010 and Beyond" Powerpoint file
- Talks presented at the Florida Everglades Multi-species Avian Summit, March 17-18, 2003 on "ATLSS Wading Bird Spatially-Explicit Species Index Modeling" Powerpoint file and "ATLSS and Uncertainty: relativity and spatially-explicit ecological models as methods to aid management planning in Everglades restoration" Powerpoint file
- Keynote address presented at the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics 10th Annual Conference, Union College, Schenectady, NY, April 12, 2003 on "Current and Future Challenges in Mathematical and Computational Biology"Powerpoint file (10MB)
- Talk presented to the University of Tennessee Tampa Area Alumni Association, Tierra Verde, FL, April 15, 2003 on "Why Florida needs The University of Tennessee: Everglades Restoration, Computing, Mathematics and Public Policy"Powerpoint file (27MB)
- Talk presented to the Alcala International Conference on Mathematical Ecology, Alcala, Spain. September 5, 2003 on "Spatial Control in Ecology: Turning Theory into Practice for Natural System Management" Powerpoint file (34MB) andPacked version directory (34MB) and Shorter version (33MB)
- Talk presented at the American Association of Medical Colleges Group on Graduate Research, Education and Training annual meeting. April 25, 2004 on "Quantitative Life Science Education: Preparing Fearless Biologists" Powerpoint file
- Talks presented at the August 2004 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Portland, Oregon on "Models for the masses: bringing computational resources for addressing complex ecological problems to stakeholders" Powerpoint file and "Interdisciplinary undergraduate education: BIO2010, curriculum reform and why ecologists should pay attention"Powerpoint file
- President's Closing Address at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology "Forward Ho with Math Bio: the Role of SMB in Meeting Future Challenges" Powerpoint file of slides - an expanded text version of this without graphics was published in the Fall 2004 SMB Newsletter
- Invited Talks presented at the Kansas City Regional Mathematics Technology Expo on October 2, 2004 on "Current and Future Challenges in Mathematical and Computational Biology" Powerpoint file and on "Mathematics and Biology Education: Promoting Interdisciplinarity" Powerpoint file
- Talk presented at the Symposium on "Quantitative Science in the Biology Curriculum" at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, on December 17, 2004 on "Mathematics and Biology Education: Promoting Interdisciplinarity"Powerpoint file
- Talk presented at the Workshop on the Computational Worldview and the Sciences at Princeton University, December 11-12, 2006 on "Synchrony, parallelism and multimodeling" Powerpoint file
- Invited MAA Address presented at the Joint Meeting the Mathematical Association of America, The Society for Mathematical Biology and The Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology in San Jose, August 3, 2007 on "Managing Natural Resources: Mathematics meets Politics, Greed and the Army Corps of Engineers" Powerpoint file
- Centripals Lecture presented at the University of Tennessee on November 18, 2009 on "Fostering Interdisciplinarity in Research and Education: NIMBioS and Beyond" Powerpoint file
- Centripetals Talk at UTK January 20, 1999 on Computational Ecology: Environmental Problem Solving for the 21st Century Text of Talk
TEACHING - Previous semesters
- Math/EEB 581: Mathematical Ecology - 2001-2002
- Math 581 Matlabfiles for Birth and Death Processes
- Math 583: Mathematical Evolutionary Theory
- Math 527: Stochastic Modeling (Home Page)
- Math 405 and Math 411: Models in Biology (Home Page)
- Math 405: Models in Biology (Spring 98) Home Page
- Math 411: Mathematical Modeling (Fall 96)
- Math 411: Mathematical Modeling (Spring 97)
- EEB 504: Scale and Ecological Systems (Home Page)
- EEB 507: Basic Concepts in Ecology (Spring 98)
- EEB 507: Basic Concepts in Ecology (Spring 99)
- BIO 230: General Ecology - EcoBeaker Lab guide
- Math 151: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Fall 2003
- Math 152: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Spring 2004
- Math 151: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Fall 2004
- Math 152: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Spring 2005
- EEB 504/CS 594 Computational Science for Natural Resource Management - Spring 2005
- Math 151: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Fall 2005
- Math 151: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Fall 2006
- Math 589/EEB 504: Mathecology Seminar - Individual Based Ecology and Modeling - Fall 2005
- Math/EEB 581: Mathematical Ecology - Fall 2006
TEACHING - Current and future semesters
- Math 151: Mathematics for the Life Sciences
- First Year Studies 129 - Spring 2008 - Agents and Orcs: Individual-based Simulations for Fun and Profit
TEACHING - References
- EcoBeaker - My Favorite Ecological Teaching Software Tool (Our EcoBeaker Projects page)
- Some Probability Teaching Activities (Text file)
- List of Book References on Biological Modeling (Text file)
- List of Textbooks on Ecological Modeling (compiled by Michael Knorrenschild) (WWW link)
- Math Modeling Books List (Text file)
- How does Biology affect Mathematics? (Essay for Mathematics Awareness Month Home Page)
- Mathematics and Ecology (Essay for Mathematics Awareness Month Home Page)
- Mathematics Awareness Month at UTK - Mathematics and Biology Day - April 1999
- The B&B Primer on First Job Haggling (Text file)
- My Notes on Writing and Getting Grants (Text file)
- My Notes on Applying for a Job, Haggling for a Job and Keeping a Job - given to Mathematical Biosciences Institute Postdocs - October 2006 (Text file)
- What is Complexity? - my definition (Text file)
- My Quick Guide to Surfing the Net for Science Olympiad students at Bearden Middle School (Home Page)
- Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ from Peter Müller (Web-based Tutorial)
- Web Resources Related to High School Biology Teaching
- Brief list of links regarding complexity theory
- UT Library Resources for research in EEB
INTERNATIONAL
- Lecture Notes from Beijer Institute Advanced Course on Ecological Modeling, December 1998
- ICTP Home Page in Italy
- Fifth Course on Mathematical Ecology at ICTP - Announcement
- Donating Journals and Equipment to Developing Countries (List compiled by Mike Kearsley and posted to sci.bio.ecology in December 1996, modified by me in 2001)
VITA
- Short Biography
- Profile of me featured in the June/July 2007 issue of Scientific Computing World
- Interview and profile from the Sloan career Cornerstone Center
- Two Page Bio Sketch - Nov 2004 (Word .doc file)
- Two Page Vita (NSF format) (Postscript)
- Two Page Vita (NSF format) (PDF)
- Two Page Vita (NIH format) (Word .doc file)
- Two Page Vita (NIH format) (Word .rtf file)
- Full Vita (Word Document)
- Full Vita (Rich Text Format)
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE REPORTS
- Report on survey of faculty for CLassroom Upgrade Committee - October 2000 (Text)
- List of all questions regarding the proposed Research Foundation submitted by faculty for the forum with President Shumaker on Feb. 18, 2003 Web page
- Order of questions regarding the proposed Research Foundation submitted by faculty to address during the forum with President Shumaker on Feb. 18, 2003 Web page
- UT Budget info on State Appropriations for 2003-2004 and Expense changes at Knoxville for 2003-2004 as compared to 2002-2003 Text file
UTK MAPLE V SITE LICENCE
Some Dance, Folk Music and Laurel Theatre Info
Some Dance, Folk Music and Laurel Theatre Info
Jubilee Community Arts Home Page
Knoxville Country Dancers Home Page
Knoxville Country Dancers Student Chapter Home Page (from Toby Koosman)
List of Artists who have Appeared at the Laurel Theatre through 1998 (Text file)
Complete List of Laurel Theatre Performers, by date, through 1998 (Text file)
Percussive Arts Society Home Page (Link)
My Various Guides to Concert Sound and Live Audio
My Various Guides to Concert Sound and Live Audio
My Basic Guide to Concert Sound Engineering (revised July 1997) Published in revised form in Live Sound International, Vol.7, No. 1-2, Jan.-Mar. 1998 (Text file) PDF version
My Basic Guide to Concert Sound Engineering (old, shorter version) (Text file)
My Basic Guide to Sound at the Laurel Theatre (Mackie SR 24x4 VLZ Pro system) (Text file)
List of Sound Equipment at the Laurel Theatre (Text file)
Live Audio Web Board (Great information from the pros)
All Mixed Up (Bob Mills Guide to Sound for contra dance)
Some interesting biologically related sites
Some interesting biologically related sites
Our Life Sciences Goodies Main Page
Mathematics Archives Life Science Collection Home Page
Individual-Based Models Page by Craig Reynolds
Harvard Molecular and Celliular Biology Library: Biosciences
Ecological modelling webserver
Some other interesting places
Some other interesting places
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
Sunsite EXPO Ticket Office ( from sunsite at UNC )
WAYS TO CONTACT ME Louis J. Gross Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-1610 Phone: (865) 974-4295 Secretary: (865) 974-3065 Fax: (865) 974-3067 e-mail: gross at tiem.utk.edu http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~gross/
Louis J. Gross , The Institute for Environmental Modeling , University of Tennessee , gross at tiem.utk.edu
Last Modified: Feb. 16, 2009