http://ms.mcmaster.ca/~bolker/

Research Area: Mathematical Biology

Research Profile: Mathematical Biology.
I work on a wide variety of problems in theoretical ecology and evolution. Mathematical interests: the use of "moment equations" (equations for the mean, variance, and second-order spatial statistics such as spatial correlation) to understand the qualitative dynamics of biological communities (e.g. hosts and parasites, competing plant species)interacting in continuous spatial arenas. Biological interests: host/parasite interactions, broadly defined to include any "intimate association" among natural enemies and their victims: viruses, bacteria, and classical macroparasites. I work on the general dynamics of infectious disease epidemics, and particularly on the evolution of virulence. Statistical interests: fitting of parameters for ecological and evolutionary models, especially in a maximum likelihood settings. My recent work has focused on improvement and dissemination of tools for fitting generalized linear mixed models.

Epidemiology, ecology, applied statistics, Mixed models, environmental science

2019/2020
Math 1MP3
Stats 744

2018/2019
Stats 4C03/6C03

2017/2018
Math 3MB3

2016/2017
Math 1MP3
Math 4P06

2015/2016
Math 1MP3
Stats 744

2014/2015
Math 1MP3
Math 4MB3/6MB3

2013/2014
Stats 4C03/6C03