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Ninth - 2011
The Ninth Annual NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J.
Preskenis was held on Thursday, April 21, 2011. Dr. David Abrahamson,
Rhode Island College, gave the
presentation,
"A Mathematical Model for a Zombie Outbreak, or A Short Corpse in
Differential Equations".
Dr. Abrahamson is the 2004 winner of Rhode Island College's Maixner
Distinguished Teaching Award and
the 2005 NES/MAA Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching.
Abstract: In 2009, scientists at the University of Ottawa used
modern epidemiological models to study what might happen should a
horror-movie outbreak of zombieism actually occur. The notions of
mathematical modeling and differential equations will be outlined for a
general audience, with special attention paid to the results of the
modeling of the rise of the living dead. There's good news: we can
survive!
Dinner Meeting
Program
We thank Sodexho, the Office of the Vice President of Academic
Affairs, and Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning for their support
of the 2011 NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J. Preskenis.
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