Louis J. Gross

Some Recent Presentations

• Talk to the NSF Biology Integration Institutes Resaerch Coordinating Network (virtual) on "NIMBioS: A Nurturing Environment for Interdisciplinary Science: Overview of an NSF Synthesis Center 2008-2021". November 22, 2024 slides
• Notes from talk in a panel discussion for UTK Math graduate students on job interviews with my responses to "Questions from UTK Math Grad Students Regarding Job Interviews". October 31, 2024 Notes
• Talk to the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) Workshop, on SocioEconomic Mathematical Epidemiology: Developing Mathematical Modelling Theory on "Modeling Cognitive Processes for Human Risk Perception: A Climate Change Example". September 17, 2024 slides
• Talk to the UTK EEB Lunch and Learn on "An Overview of Human Behavior Modeling". September 9, 2024 slides
• Talk at the SIAM Mathematics of Planet Earth Meeting in Portland, OR on "Linking Models of Human Behavior, Risk Perception, Economics and Climate Change: a System Dynamics Perspective". June 11, 2024 slides
• Talk to the Cornell University Center for Applied Mathematics as an Notable Alumni Colloquium speaker on "A Rational Basis for Hope: Human Behavior Modeling and Climate Change". April 12, 2024 slides
• Talk at the Joint Marthematics Meetings in San Francisco for a session on Dynamical Systems Modeling for Biological and Social Systems on "Human Behavior Modeling, the Exposome and Disease Progression". January 3, 2024 slides
• Talk to the UTK Office of Research Expanding Horizons session on "Forming and Managing Teams to Solve Complex Challenges". October 19, 2023 slides
• Talk at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland, OR on "Integration of human behavior into dynamic models of environmental systems". August 10, 2023 slides
• Talk to Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society on "Avian Population Modeling: Alternative Methods". March 1, 2023 slides
• Talk to the UTK Governor's School on "Drugs, Sex, Rock'n-Roll and a Rational Basis for Hope: What's Math got to do with it?". June 21, 2022 slides
• Video and slides of my Final Lecture at UTK on A Rational Basis for Hope: Human Behavior Modeling and Climate Change. Presentation to Howard Baker Center Energy and Environment Forum. April 7, 2022 Link to video and Article from the UT Daily Beacon about this lecture
• Talk (given remotely) for The Cold Place Mathematical Biology Seminar at Case Western University on "Quantitative Education for Life Science Students: Lessons from 40 Years of Efforts". January 10, 2022 slides (pptx)
• Talk (given remotely) at Society for Mathematical Biology Education Workshop on "Development of a Biocalculus Assessment (BCA): Assessing Impacts on Student Learning in Calculus from Inclusion of Biological Examples". April 2021 slides (ppt)
• Video Talk for the Banff Workshop on Mathematica of Human Environmental Systems (online) on A Rational Basis for Hope: Human Behavior Modeling and Climate Change. January 29, 2021 Link to video and Talk Slides (pptx)
• Talk at the BioQuest/Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Workshop at William and Mary University on "Prioritizing your Data Science Curriculum". July 2019 slides (pptx)
• Video of Talk at Princeton University Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy on "A Rational Basis for Hope: Human Behavior Modeling and Climate Change". April 3, 2019 Link to video
• Talk (given remotely) for LA Mission College on "Quantitative Education for Life Science Undergraduates: Lessons from 40 Years of Efforts". November 2018 slides (pptx)
• Talk to UTK Commission for Women on "Gender, Faculty Salaries and Inequity at UTK. March 2017 slides (pptx)

Some Old Presentations

• Slides from talk on SIMPDEL to Walt Dineen Conference, May 22-24, 1997 Page
• 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 "Modeles et theories pour le contrile de ressources vivantes et la gestion de systemes Écologiques - Programme de l'école 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) and Packed 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
• Overview of Sustainability Remarks presented at Rutgers University on November 15, 2010 "Comments on the Mathematics of Sustainability Science" Powerpoint file