Executive Board
Carlos Castillo-Chavez - Director MCMSCA University Regents and a Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor at Arizona State University, CCC's research program is carried out at the interface of the natural and social sciences and puts emphasis on (i) the role of dynamic social landscapes on disease dispersal, dynamics and control in human and animal populations; (ii) the role of behavior (broadly understood to include addiction) on disease evolution and (iii) on the impact of local disease and behavioral dynamics across levels of organization over multiple temporal and spatial scales. CCC and collaborators have co-authored over 175 publications on HIV, influenza, Childhood diseases, STD diseases and addiction. Carlos Castillo-Chavez is the Executive Director of two institutes: the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI) which focuses on providing research opportunities at the interface of the biological, computational and mathematical sciences from the undergraduate to the graduate and postdoctoral levels and SUMS (Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Science). MTBI’s summer program which was established in 1996 was just recognized in 2007 by the American Mathematical Society as a “Mathematics Program that Makes a Difference” and SUMS was recognized by a Presidential Mentorship Award in 2003.
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Sander Van Der Leeuw - Professor & Director, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Consortium for Biosocial Complex Systems, College of Liberal Arts and SciencesAn archaeologist and historian by training, van der Leeuw's personal research interests are in the study of long-term dynamics of socio-environmental systems, reconstruction of ancient technologies, (ancient and modern) regional man-land relationships, invention and innovation, urban dynamics, geographic information systems, modeling and complex systems theory. In the last 15 years, he has focused on bringing trans-disciplinary approaches to these domains.
William Velez - Associate Head for Undergraduate Affairs, Director of the Math Center, University of Arizona.William Yslas Vélez earned all of his degrees from The University of Arizona, completing his doctoral degree in mathematics in 1975. Between undergraduate and graduate school, from 1968-1970, he served aboard the aircraft carriers, USS Yortown and USS Kearsarge in the US Navy. He made two tours to Vietnam while on board these two ships. His research interests have been in number theory and algebra. His first position after completing his doctoral studies was as a member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, where he worked on the Command and Control of Atomic Weapons systems. In 1977, he returned to academia and accepted a position at the University of Arizona. He currently holds the rank of Professor of Mathematics and University Distinguished Professor. Prof. Vélez's focus is to increase the number of students majoring in mathematics and also to increase diversity among the undergraduate mathematics majors and all of his activities are directed towards these goals.
Philip Kutzko
Kathryn Chaloner- Professor and Head of the Department of Biostatistics in the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa and Adjunct Research Professor at Arizona StateShe has an MSc degree from the University of London and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include the use of Bayesian statistical methods in clinical and translational research and Bayesian design of experiments. She also collaborates on range of interdisciplinary research in infectious diseases and cystic fibrosis and also on clinical trials for islet cell transplants, and neurological diseases. She is Principal Investigator of the Iowa Summer Institute in Biostatistics, a summer program aimed at increasing the pool of undergraduates going on to graduate study. She has worked for several years on initiatives to increase diversity in the statistical workforce.
Aloysius Helminck