Math Awareness Month lecture focuses on mobility

<p>Dirk Brockmann, associate professor, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, will deliver the keynote lecture for Mathematics Awareness Month at 5 p.m. Friday, April 15, titled “The Mathematics of Mobility.”</p><separator></separator><p>The free lecture will take place in Life Sciences A-191 on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus, sponsored by the School of Mathematical &amp; Statistical Sciences.</p><separator></separator><p>Brockmann’s research interests include the physics of complex systems, dynamics of human infections diseases, social dynamics and human transport and human mediated bioinvasion.</p><separator></separator><p>His human mobility network research was used on the CBS show NUMB3RS, to determine where thieves would strike next. He has used data from WheresGeorge.com, a site where users track the travels of dollar bills, to research patterns of human mobility.</p><separator></separator><p>He also has modeled how diseases spread throughout the country, and he and his research group created a map of large-scale community boundaries in the United States. For more information on Brockmann’s research projects, go to <a href="http://rocs.northwestern.edu">http://rocs.northwestern.edu</a>.</p><sep… Awareness Month has been held each April since 1986 to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics.</p><separator></separator><p>For more information about Mathematics Awareness Month, go to <a href="http://math.asu.edu/node/3516">http://math.asu.edu/node/3516</a>.</p&gt;