Mathematical Biology Seminars | Department of Mathematics

The Mathematical Biology Seminar attempts to bring together those interested in applying mathematical techniques to important biological problems. The seminar will be comprised of talks by students and faculty in mathematics as well as from several ecological and biological departments from across the Oregon State University campus. Talks revolve around the mathematics of infectious diseases, deterministic and stochastic models of population dynamics, spatial ecology, and genomics, among others.

See below for upcoming seminars or access the seminar archive

Organizer

Swati Patel

Meeting time

Tuesdays at 3 pm in location KIDDER 238

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Attendees are encouraged to join the student mailing list and faculty mailing list.

Poverty Traping in Proportional Loss Insurance Models

Monday, June 2, 2025 – 11:00 am

STAG 111

Speaker: Enrique Thomann

In this talk I will describe recent work on modeling risk processes in low income households for which a proportional loss model can capture the catastrophic effects of income loss. These models are particularly adept for households with low liquidity, in which a governmental or NGO can provide subsidies for insurance. The mathematical analysis of the model combines stochastic processes, integro-differential equations and numerical calculations. This analysis help determine conditions in which the insured population can avoid a certainty of ruin. This is join work with Kira Henshaw, Jose Flores-Contro, Jorge Ramirez, Sooie-Hoe Loke and Coriina Constantinescu. Read more.