Ryan Lukeman

 
 

I received a Ph.D. in 2009 from UBC, supervised by Yue-Xian Li & Leah Edelstein-Keshet, as a member of the Mathematical Biology group and Institute of Applied Mathematics.


I started at St.F.X. in 2009, where I teach courses in applied mathematics, and conduct research in collective behaviour and mathematical biology, focusing on connecting mathematical models to empirical data.

Assistant Professor, St. Francis Xavier uNIVERsity

office: ANNEX 22C

phone: 867 4920

email: rlukeman at stfx.ca


Dept. Mathematics, Statistics           & Computer Science,

St. F. X. University

PO Box 5000

Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5

NEWS

  1. •May 2013: Gabrielle Vasey (NSERC USRA), Anisha Dhalla (NSERC USRA) and Kennedy Murphy begin summer research positions. Gabrielle is working on odour-gated rheotaxis modelling, and natural resource modelling. Anisha is working on analyzing kleptoparasitic interactions within moving animal groups, and Kennedy is working on collective rhythm. 



  1. •May 2012: Alexis Christie (NSERC USRA) and Gabrielle Vasey (UCR award) begin summer research positions. Alexis is working on effects of currents in collective animal motion, and Gabrielle is working on odour-gated rheotaxis modeling.


  1. •Nov 2011: Research featured in Dynamical Systems Magazine. See link.


  1. •July 2011: Research featured in German weekly news magazine, Der Spiegel (in german)


  1. •April 2011: Research featured on cover of AMS Notices, the world’s most widely read mathematics magazine. The feature was part of a special issue on Complexity.


        
 


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  1. •March 2011: 5 year NSERC Discovery Grant awarded.


  1. •January 2011: Presented at the City University of New York program on Collective Phenomena in Biological Systems.


  1. •July 2010: Research featured in News@StFX. See link.


  1. •July 2010: Latest publication featured in ‘Research Highlights’ in the weekly journal of science, Nature. See link.


  1. •July 2010: ‘Inferring individual rules from collective behaviour’ (R. Lukeman, Y.X. Li, and L. Edelstein-Keshet) appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. See publication page for a link to the paper.


  1. •May 2010: Corbin Hudson begins a summer research position on modelling odour-gated rheotaxis in Tritonia.


  1. •November 2009: Presented at Princeton University workshop on   Natural Algorithms.