Rebecca Veronica Culshaw, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
The University of Texas at Tyler
Ph: 903.566.7198 (w)
903.312.8209 (h)
e-mail: Rebecca_Culshaw@uttyler.edu
Web page: http://math.uttyl.edu/rculshaw/
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics
Awarded October 2002
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Advisor: Dr. Shigui Ruan
Research: Mathematical biology/Optimal control
Master of Science in Mathematics
Awarded October 1997
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (Honours with a minor in Spanish)
Awarded October 1996
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Employment:
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
The University of Texas at Tyler
Tyler, Texas 75799
September 2004 present
Adjunct Professor of Mathematics
The University of Texas at Tyler
July August 2004
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Clarke College
Dubuque, Iowa 52001
August 2002 July 2004
Teaching Assistant/Instructor of Mathematics
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
September 1999 August 2002
Assistant Actuarial Analyst
The Maritime Life Assurance Company
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
May 1998 May 1999
Courses Taught:
Spring 2007: Calculus II (two sections), Differential Equations
Fall 2006: Statistics, Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis
Spring 2006: Calculus I, Applied Math II (graduate) - Optimal Control and the Calculus of Variations
Fall 2005: Introductory Statistics, Calculus I, Applied Math I (graduate) - Differential Equations and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Spring 2005: Math for Business and Economics, Algorithms in Applied Mathematics, Selected topics in Mathematics (graduate) Mathematical Biology
Fall 2004: Intermediate Algebra, Differential Equations, Algorithms in Applied Mathematics
Summer 2004: Introductory Statistics
Spring 2004: Math as a Liberal Art (two sections), Introductory Statistics, Calculus II, Differential Equations (independent study)
Fall 2003: Elementary Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, Calculus I, Senior Mathematics Seminar
Summer 2003: Calculus I, Research Methods in the Social Sciences (independent study)
Spring 2003: Precalculus, Introductory Statistics, Modern Geometries, Research Methods in the Social Sciences (for the Psychology department)
Fall 2002: Precalculus, Introductory Statistics (two sections), Discrete Mathematics
Fall 2001: Introduction to Complex Variables
Spring 2001: Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
Papers Published or Submitted:
1. Mathematical Modeling of AIDS
progression: limitations, expectations, and future directions
Journal of the American Physicians and Surgeons 11#4 (Winter 2006)
Available online at http://www.jpands.org/vol11no4/culshaw.pdf
2. Review of HIV Models: The role of the natural immune response and implications for treatment
Journal of Biological Systems 12#2 (June 2004)
pp. 123 136
3. Optimal HIV Treatment by maximizing immune response
Rebecca Culshaw, Shigui Ruan, Raymond Spiteri
Journal of Mathematical Biology 48#5 (May 2004)
pp. 545 562
4. A mathematical model of cell-to-cell spread of HIV-1 that includes a time delay
Rebecca Culshaw, Shigui Ruan, Glenn Webb
Journal of Mathematical Biology 46#5 (May 2003)
pp. 425 444
5. A delay-differential equation model of HIV infection of CD4+ T cells
Rebecca Culshaw, Shigui Ruan
Mathematical Biosciences 165 (May 2000)
pp. 27 39
Theses:
Immune Response Models of HIV Infection and Treatment
Ph.D. thesis, Dalhousie University
August 2002
Models of cell-to-cell and cell-free viral spread of HIV infection
Masters thesis, Dalhousie University
September 1997
Books/Proceedings:
1. Proceedings of the Conference on Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary Dynamics
John Boucher, Rebecca Culshaw and Kazem Mahdavi, editors
World Scientific Press
To appear in 2007
2. Science Sold Out: Does HIV Really Cause AIDS?
North Atlantic Publishing
December 28, 2006 (but with a copyright date of 2007)
Conference Presentations:
Combining immunotherapy and antiviral treatment of HIV: A control-theoretic approach, Invited talk, The 29th annual SIAM Southeast Atlantic Section Meeting, The Citadel and the College of Charleston, March 25-26, 2005
Optimal control for therapy of HIV based on maximising immune response, Annual meeting for the Society of Mathematical Biology, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, July 12-16, 2002
Immune response models of HIV infection and treatment, Third Annual Bluenose Numerical Analysis Day, Dalhousie University, May 31, 2002
Control of HIV infection by maximising immune response, International Conference on Differential Equations with Applications to Biology, Cape Breton, Canada, August 2-6, 2002
A delay-differential equation model of cell-to-cell spread of HIV, APICS 2000, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
A delay-differential equation model of HIV infection of CD4+ T cells, International Conference on Differential Equations with Applications to Biology, Dalhousie University, July 25-29, 1997
A delay-differential equation model of HIV infection in tissue cultures, International Conference on Mathematical Models in Medical and Health Sciences, Vanderbilt University, May 28-31, 1997
Other Conferences Attended:
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Atlanta, Georgia, 2005
Phoenix, Arizona, 2004
Fall Meeting of Texas NExT Section
Sam Houston University, October 2004
Annual Meeting of MAA, Texas Section
University of Texas at Arlington, April 2005
Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology
University of Utah, August 2001
Grants Received:
Conference on Mathematical Biology and Dynamical Systems, Funded by NSA
Faculty Research Grant, 2005-2006
The University of Texas at Tyler
Other Professional Activities:
Member, organising committee for the Conference on Mathematical Biology and Dynamical Systems to be held at The University of Texas at Tyler, October 7-9, 2005
Member, Board of Advisors, Journal of Biological Systems
December 2004 present (from December 2003 - November 2004 was a member of the Editorial Board)
Roger V. Jean, Editor in Chief
Member, American Mathematical Society
January 2004 present
Project NExT Fellow, Texas Section
2004 - 2006
Departmental Service:
How the leopard got its spots
Talk given to the UT Tyler MAA Section, Fall 2004
Organising Committee, Sonya Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day, 2005
Mathematics Department Search Committee, 2004 and 2005
~References available upon request~