Publication List

• A mathematical model for Chagas disease transmission with neighboring villages, Daniel J. Coffield Jr., Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Ryan Cappouellez, and Gabrielle A. Stryker, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematical Biology, 2023.

• Simulations of a Logistic-Type Model with Delays for Chagas Disease with Insecticide Spraying, Nofe Al-Asuoad, Tyler Pleasant, Meir Shillor, Hrishikesh Munugala, Daniel J. Coffield Jr, and Anna Maria Spagnuolo,International Journal of Biomathematics, Vol. 10, No. 3 (2017) 1750033 (pp. 1--20).

• A mathematical model of Chagas disease dynamics in the Gran Chaco region, Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Daniel J. Coffield Jr., Alex M. Carignan, A. Hee-Jin Corcoran, Brandy VanLoo, Meir Shillor, Kasia A. Pawelek, Journal of Coupled Systems and Multiscale Dynamics, Volume 3, Number 3, September 2015, pp. 177-199(23).

• A Model for the Transmission of Chagas Disease with Random Inputs, Daniel James Coffield Jr., Ken Kuttler, Xianggui Qu, Jorge Rabinovich, Meir Shillor, Anna Maria Spagnuolo, and Alexandra Zetye, Biomath, International Journal on Mathematical Models in Biosciences,Vol 3, No 2 (2014), pg 1--16.     

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• Steady State Stability Analysis of a Chagas Disease Model, Daniel James Coffield Jr., Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Biomath, International Journal on Mathematical Models in Biosciences, Vol. 3, No 1 (2014), pg 1 --13.  Link to paper

• A Model for Chagas Disease with Oral and Congenital Transmission,  Daniel Coffield Jr., Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Meir Shillor, Ensela Mema, Bruce Pell, Amanda Pruzinsky, Alexandra Zetye, (2013) PLoS ONE 8(6): e67267. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067267

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• Analysis of the steady states of a mathematical model for Chagas disease, Mary Clauson, Albert Harrison, Laura Shuman, Meir Shillor, and Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Involve, a Journal of Mathematics Vol. 5 (2012) No. 3, pp. 237--246. \\ DOI 10.2140/involve.2012.5.237.

• A model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human intestine,  Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Victor J. DiRita, Denise Kirschner,Journal of Theoretical Biology (2011), pp. 247--258. DOI information: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.08.028

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• A Logistic Delay Differential Equation Model for Chagas Disease with Interrupted Spraying Schedules, Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Meir Shillor, Lindsey Kingsland, Andrea Thatcher, Matthew Toeniskoetter, and Benjamin Wood, Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2011, DOI: 10.1080/17513758.2011.587896,\\ pages 377--394,

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• A framework for running the ADCIRC discontinuous Galerkin storm surge model on a GPU, Michael DuChene, Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Ethan Kubatko, Joannes Westerink, Clint Dawson, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 4, 2011, Pages 2017 -- 2026, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2011.

• A Model for single-phase flow in layered porous media, Daniel J. Coffield Jr., Anna Maria Spagnuolo; Electron. J. Diff. Equ., Vol. 2010(2010), No. 94, pp. 1-19.

• A Model for Chagas Disease with Controlled Spraying, Spagnuolo, Anna Maria, Shillor, Meir and Stryker, Gabrielle A. (2011) Journal of Biological Dynamics,5: 4, 299--317, First published on 17 December 2010 (iFirst).     Link to paper

• The convergence of a multidimensional, locally conservative, Eulerian-Lagrangian finite element method for a semilinear parabolic equation, Jim Douglas, Jr, Son-Young Yi, and Anna M. Spagnuolo, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Science, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2010) pp. 315--348.

• Speedup using flowpaths for a finite difference solution of a 3D parabolic PDE, Darrin Hanna, Anna M. Spagnuolo, and Michael DuChene, Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2007. IPDPS 2007. IEEE International Volume, Issue 26--30 March 2007, 2507--2512.

• Reiterated homogenization and the double-porosity model,} Peter Shi, Anna Spagnuolo, and Steve Wright, Transport in Porous Media, Vol. 59, 2005, pp. 73--95.

• Numerical simulations of vehicle platform stabilization, William A. Lindsey, Anna M. Spagnuolo, Curt J. Chipman, and Meir Shillor, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Volume 41, 2005, 1389--1402.

• Derivation of a multiple-porosity model of single-phase flow through a fractured porous medium via recursive homogenization, Anna Maria Spagnuolo and Steve Wright, in Asymptotic Analysis 39, Vol. 2, 2004, pp. 92--112.

• Modeling HIV-1 dynamics and the effects of decreasing activated infected T-cell count by filtration, Anna M. Spagnuolo, Darrin Hanna, William Lindsey, and Gabrielle A. Stryker, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004, IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference if the IEEE, Vol. 1, pp. 722--725, September 1--5, 2004.

• Analysis of a multiple-porosity model for single-phase flow through naturally fractured porous media, Anna Maria Spagnuolo and Steve Wright, Journal of Applied Mathematics, Volume 2003, No. 7, 2003, pp. 327 -- 364.

• Difficulties and uncertainty in mathematical/numerical modeling of fluid flow in fractured media, Richard E. Ewing and Anna M. Spagnuolo, Fracture and In-situ Stress Characterization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, 209, Geological Society of London, London, England, 2003, pp. 187--200.

• Degenerate two-phase incompressible flow V: characteristic finite element methods, Zhangxin Chen, Richard E. Ewing, Echo Q. Jiang, and Anna M. Spagnuolo, Journal of Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2002, pp. 1--19.

• Error analysis for characteristics-based methods for degenerate parabolic problems, Zhangxin Chen, Richard E. Ewing, Echo Q. Jiang, and Anna M. Spagnuolo, SIAM J on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2002, pp. 1491--1515.

• Parameter estimates for high-level nuclear waste in fractured porous media, Jim Douglas, Jr. and Anna M. Spagnuolo, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 295, 2002, pp. 173--183.

• The approximation of nuclear contaminant transport in porous media, Jim Douglas, Jr., Chieh-Sen Huang, and Anna M. Spagnuolo, Computational and Applied Mathematics Vol. 21, No. 2, 2002, pp. 409--428.

• The transport of nuclear contamination in fractured porous media, Jim Douglas, Jr. and Anna M. Spagnuolo, Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2001, pp. 723--761.

• Implementation of a locally conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian method applied to nuclear contaminant transport, Chieh-Sen Huang and Anna M. Spagnuolo, ``Numerical Treatment of Multiphase Flows in Porous media, State of the Art," Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 552, 2000, pp. 179--189, Z. Chen, R. Ewing, and Z.-C. Shi, eds., Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.

• A multiple-porosity model for a single-phase flow through naturally-fractured porous media, Jim Douglas, Jr., Mauricio Kischinhevsky, Paulo Jorge Paes-Leme, and Anna M. Spagnuolo, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 17, 1998, pp. 19--48.

Talks

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• Presented, "A Mathematical Model for Vibrio Cholerae Colonization of the Human Intestine,'' on April 5, 2014 at the 2nd Annual Midwest Women in Mathematics Symposium at the University of Notre Dame [invited]."

• Presented with Bobby Bridges a panel discussion on "How to find an advisor, research area, problem" on March 8, 2014 in the Mathematics Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana [invited]

• Presented "Research Experiences from Grad School and Beyond," on March 7, 2014 in the Mathematics Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana [invited]

• Presented "Some Mathematical Models and their Computational Solutions," Women in Computing Day, June 13, 2012, at Oakland University. [invited]

• Presented "A Mathematical Approach for Studying Vibrio Cholerae Colonization in the Human Intestine," guest lecturer for LBS100 on November 8, 2012 [invited]

• Presented "Interactive Course: Mathematical Models of Chagas Disease and Numerical Simulations." with Kasia Pawelek at the University of Maryland --- Baltimore County, for the Infinite Possibilities Conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation on March 29, 2012 [invited].

• Presented "A mathematical model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human intestine," in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, September 13, 2011

• Presented "A mathematical model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human intestine," at the Complex Biological Systems Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Theme Days Meeting, May 9-10, 2011. [invited]

• Presented "A mathematical model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human intestine," on October 29, 2010 at the 10th Annual Red-Raider Mini-Symposium on Mathematical Biology, Ecology and Epidemiology (October 28-30, 2010) at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. [invited]

• Presented "Research experiences from graduate school and beyond" on June 4, 2010 in the REU program 2010 in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI. [invited]

• Presented "A mathematical model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human intestine" on April 17, 2010 at the SIAM Great Lakes Section Annual Meeting at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI . [invited]

• Presented "Some mathematical models in biology and medicine," on March 19, 2010 at Schoolcraft College. [invited]

• Presented "A mathematical model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human intestine" on November 5, 2009 in the Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI. [invited]

• Presented "Research experiences from graduate school and beyond" on June 5, 2009 in the REU program 2009 in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI. [invited]

• Presented "A model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human intestine" on September 16, 2008 at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI.

• Presented "How to choose a research area, advisor, problem, job" on March 29, 2008 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented "Post-graduate experiences'' on March 28, 2008 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented "A mathematical model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human intestine" at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI on November 15, 2007. [invited]

• Presented "A model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human intestine" at the Conference "Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Multiscale Nonlinear Systems," at Oregon State University on June 25 - June 29, 2007. }[invited]

• Presented "My experiences in computing solutions to mathematical models in science and industry'' at the Women in Computing Day at Oakland University on June 13, 2007. [invited]

• Presented "A model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human intestine" as an invited Plenary Speaker at the Spring 2007 MAA Conference in Dearborn, Michigan on May 5, 2007.[invited]

• Presented (with Dr.~Darrin M Hanna) "Speedup using flowpaths for a finite difference solution of a 3D parabolic PDE" at the NGS (Next Generation Software) Workshop at the IPDPS Conference in Long Beach, California on March 27, 2007.[invited]

• Presented "How to choose a research area, advisor, problem, job" on March 26, 2007 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented "Post-graduate experiences" on March 25, 2007 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented (with Dr.~Gabrielle Stryker) "A model for Chagas disease with controlled spraying" to the Mathematics Department at Andrews University on December 8, 2006 [invited]

• Presented "Reiterated homogenization and the double-porosity model" to the Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar in the Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University on October 20, 2006. [invited]

• Presented "A model for Vibrio cholerae colonization of the human intestine'' to the Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University on October 20, 2006. [invited]}

• Presented "Numerical simulations in science" at Wright Patterson Air Force Base on July 21, 2006. [invited]

• Presented "A career in simulation studies in science and industry" for the Biomedical and Health Informatics and REU program at Oakland University on June 20, 2006. [invited]

• Presented "Simulation studies in science and industry" for the REU program in Engineering at Oakland University, Women in Computing Day on June 14, 2006. [invited]

• Presented "How to choose a research area, advisor, problem, job" on March 25, 2006 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented "Post-graduate experiences" on March 24, 2006 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented "Modeling Chagas disease" to the Oakland University Biology Research Forum Group BIO 451/551 on March 14, 2006. [invited]

• Presented "How to choose a research area, advisor, problem, job" in March 2005 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented "Post-graduate experiences" in March 2005 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented "Mathematical models of physical phenomena in science, engineering, and medicine," in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium at Albion College on October 20, 2005. [invited]

• Presented "Spatial dynamics of cholera infection in a human host" at the Oakland University Honor's College "New and Emerging Infectious Disease" on March 4, 2005. [invited]

• Presented "Quantifying low concentrations of antigen in real-time using mathematical modeling and AI," with Darrin M. Hanna at the Karmanos Cancer Institute, November 9, 2004, Detroit, MI.[invited]

• Presented "Modeling HIV-1 dynamics and the effects of decreasing activated T-cell count by filtration" at the 26th Annual International Conference, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society [EMBS], on September 4, 2004 in San Francisco, CA

• Presented "Spatial dynamics of cholera infection in a human host" at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting on July 26, 2004 at the University of Michigan. [invited]

• Presented "How to choose a research area, advisor, problem, job" in March 2004 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented "Post-graduate experiences" in March 2004 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented "A preliminary study of the colonization of Vibrio cholerae in a human host" on March 8, 2004 to the Sigma Xi Research Society at Oakland University. [invited]

• Presented "How to choose a research area, advisor, problem, job" on March 29, 2003 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented "Post-graduate experiences" on March 28, 2003 at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. [invited]

• Presented "A preliminary study of Vibrio cholerae colonization in a human host" to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland University in November 2003.

• Presented "Tracking nuclear waste in porous media," at the School of Engineering at Oakland University in April 2003. [invited]

• Presented "A locally conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian method for approximating nuclear decay chains in porous media" at the Numerical Analysis Seminar at Purdue University, in November 2002. [invited]

• Presented "Cholera: a preliminary study," in Rio de Janairo, Brazil September 2002. [invited]

• Presented "A locally-conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian method for approximating nuclear decay chains in porous media" at Wayne State University (joint Applied Mathematics and Analysis Seminar) in April 2002. [invited]

• Gave three presentations at Exploration 2002 at Seaholm High School in Birmingham, MI. [invited]

• Presented "A dual-porosity model for high-level nuclear contaminant transport in naturally-fractured porous media and an approximation to the flow by a locally-conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian method" in the Oakland University Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium in November 2001.

• Presented "Simulating the transport of nuclear decay chains in naturally- fractured porous media" at Andrews University, Mathematics Colloquium Series on September 21, 2001. [invited]

• Presented "The simulation of nuclear contaminants in fractured porous media" at the SIAM-AMS-IMS Meeting at Mount Holyoke College in MA on June 20, 2001. [invited]

• Presented "A numerical method for the simulation of the transport of nuclear contamination in fractured porous media" at the Sixth SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences in a minisymposium on June 11, 2001. [invited]

• Presented "A model for the transport of nuclear contaminants in fractured porous media" at the Sixth SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences in a minisymposium on June 12, 2001. [invited]

• Presented "The simulation of nuclear contaminant transport in porous media" to the University of Michigan Medical School Mathematics/Biology on April 23, 2001. [invited]

• Presented "The simulation of nuclear contaminant transport in porous media" at Wayne State University on April 3, 2001. [invited]

• Presented "Approximation of nuclear contaminant transport in porous media" at SIAM Numerical PDEs Conference at Oakland University on March 31, 2001. [contributed paper]

• Presented "A numerical method for the simulation of nuclear contaminant transport in porous media" at Physics Department Colloquium at Oakland University on March 29, 2001. [invited]

• Presented "Approximation of nuclear contaminant transport in porous media" to the College of William and Mary in February 2000. [invited]

• Presented "Approximation of nuclear contaminant transport in porous media" to Pennsylvania State, Erie in March 2000. [invited]

• Presented "Approximation of nuclear contaminant transport in porous media" to Wright State University in February, 2000. [invited]

• Presented "Approximation of contaminant transport in porous media by a modified method of characteristics with adjusted advection," at the Fifth SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences at the Adam's Mark San Antonio - Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio Texas, March 1999.[contributed paper]

• Presented "Approximation of contaminant transport in porous media by a modified method of characteristics with adjusted advection" at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Applied Mathematics Seminar, April 1998. [invited]

• Presented Talk on Fractures in Porous Media and Oil Recovery at Exxon Production Research Company in Houston, Texas, March 1998. [invited]

• Presented "A multiple-porosity model for a single-phase flow through naturally-fractured porous media"AMS Meeting at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, May 1997. [invited]