Thomas Hillen


Thomas Hillen

Professor

University of Alberta

Website
thillen@ualberta.ca
Research interests: Partial differential equations, Transport equations, Local and non-local effects, Cell motility and migration, Mathematical oncology

Lectures during the School

Lecture 1: Transport equations in biology

Introduction to transport equations; scalings and the parabolic and hyperbolic limits.

Lecture 2: Anisotropic diffusion

Anisotropic random walks, diffusion tensor, von-Mises distributions and their moments.

Lecture 3: Modelling of glioma with anisotropic diffusion

Use of diffusion tensor imaging to predict brain cancer growth and treatment.