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| Dr.
Carl Anderson |
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| Anderson/Interface
Visiting Assistant Professor in Natural Systems |
| School of Industrial and
Systems Engineering (ISyE) |
| Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205, USA |
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| Email: carl@isye.gatech.edu |
| Tel: 404-385-4082 / Fax:
404-894-2301 |
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Curriculum vitae
Age: 31 years (born 8th
October, 1971)
Nationality: British. I
expect to obtain a green card later this year.
Qualifications
- B.Sc. Hons. in Biological Sciences
Upper second class — University of Durham, UK
1990–1993
- M.Sc. in Biological Computation
Pass — University of York, UK 1994–1995
- Ph.D. in Mathematical Biology
— University of Sheffield, UK 1995–1998
- Title: "The organisation of foraging
in insect societies." Supervised by Prof. Chris
Cannings and Dr. Paul Blackwell of the School of
Mathematics, although much work was done in collaboration
with Prof. Francis L. W. Ratnieks of the Department of
Animal and Plant Sciences.
Previous positions
The following summarizes the appointments that
I have held since submitting my Ph.D. thesis:
Sheffield University, UK
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May 1998:
Submitted thesis "Organisation of foraging in insect
societies," 2 years and 8 months into studentship. I
was awarded my Ph.D. on 5th
December 1998 |
Santa Fe Institute, NM
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June 1998:
Philip Steinmetz Research Fellow at the world’s
leading complex systems research institute |
Aarhus University, Denmark
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October
1998: 4-month postdoctoral position in the Genetics
and Ecology Department |
Duke University, NC
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March 1999:
One year postdoctoral position in the Zoology Department |
Cañas, Costa Rica
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June 1999:
I took two months unpaid leave (but with paid expenses)
from Duke to do fieldwork on social wasps and leaf-cutter
ants. |
Georgia Institute of Technology, GA
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March 2000:
2 month postdoctoral position in the Industrial and
Systems Engineering Department. I worked on the parallels
between the logistics of insect societies and industry
(principally manufacturing) |
Regensburg University, Germany
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May
2000–present: Two year assistant lecturer /
postdoctoral position in the Zoology Institute. I taught
my own courses "Statistics for biologists" and
"Complexity, self-organization and pattern formation
in biology" |
Publications: see separate page
Awards and prizes
- Grant awarded from the European Science
Foundation’s Theoretical Biology of Adaptation
Program. I spent March 2001 working with Dr. Guy
Theraulaz (Toulouse, France) on issues relating to
self-organisation and division of labour in insect
societies. Work to appear as Gautrais et al., J.
theor. Biol.
- Philip Steinmetz Fellowship. (1998). Santa
Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA
- Certificate of Merit awarded for article
"Getting it together: The boids and the bees"
entered into The Daily Telegraph Young Science
Writer of the Year Competition (1997).
Miscellaneous
- I have been invited to be a member of the
program committee for an international workshop, entitled
"Self-organisation and evolution of social
behaviour," to be held Monte Verità, Switzerland,
September 8–13, 2002. web:
www.ifi.unizh.ch/events/monteverita2002.
- I have refereed manuscripts for the
journals Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology
and Sociobiology, Ethology, Insectes
Sociaux, Journal of Insect Behavior, Journal
of Theoretical Biology, The American Naturalist.,
and Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Research interests: please see
separate page
Teaching interests
For current interests and courses please see separate page
While at Regensburg University, I taught the
following courses (open to all staff and students of all
departments):
- Introductory statistics for biologists (given
twice in Autumn 2000, and once February 2002). This
was a practical data analysis course for empirical
research covering experimental design, data collection,
hypothesis testing, data analysis and interpretation.
Because this was the first taste of statistics for most
of the students, it focussed on the concepts of
statistics (normality, variance, confidence intervals
etc.) and the main statistical tests they were likely to
use (U, t-test, c 2) rather than any deep statistical theory
(e.g. proof of central limit theorem). Feedback was very
positive from the students.
- Complexity, self-organisation and
pattern formation in biology (Spring 2001). This
covered a diversity of topics including flocking,
schooling, ant trails, patterns on honey bee combs,
cellular automata, phyllotaxis, and pigmentation patterns
on seashells and mammals, as well as more general
discussion about principles and properties of
self-organisation and complex systems. Once again, as
this is a very new area for my students, it concentrates
primarily on concepts and principles rather than, for
instance, the underlying mathematics of
reaction-diffusion systems (e.g. in pigmentation
patterns).
Practical: Once a year, I am
required to teach a full day practical (repeated on each
of 5 consecutive days to groups of 4–5 students) of
a subject of my choosing. I have taught the following:
Population biology and predator-prey relationships (June
2000). Self-organisation and pattern formation in
biology (May 2001)
Workshop: I was recently invited to
teach at "Mathematical modelling of social
behaviour" workshop held Great Hucklow, UK,
14–18 September 2001. Participants ranged from Ph.D.
students to readers (i.e. senior faculty). I taught a
significant proportion of the workshop with the following
sessions: Introduction to math modelling I: the
modelling cycle [½ hour]; Introduction to math
modelling II: model types [½ hour]; Modelling the
honey bee scout-recruit system [2 hours]. These
sessions were complemented with a set of exercises for
the students to attempt.
Referees
- Prof. Thomas D. Seeley:
Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Mudd Hall, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Email: tds5@cornell.edu. Tel: 607 254 4301. Fax: 607 254 4308.
- Prof. Francis L. W. Ratnieks:
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of
Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK. Email: f.ratnieks@sheffield.ac.uk. Tel: +44 (0)114 222 0070. Fax: +44 (0)114 222
0002.
- Dr. Daniel W. McShea:
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC
27708-0338, USA. Email: dwmcshea@duke.edu. Tel: 919 660 7342. Fax: 919 684 6168.
- Prof. Nigel R. Franks:
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol,
Bristol. BS8 1UG, UK. Email: Nigel.Franks@bristol.ac.uk. Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7475. Fax: +44 (0)117 925
7374