Professor
Office: Katharine Reed Cudahy Hall,
Room 363
Phone: (414) 288-5237
E-mail: stephen.merrill{at}
marquette{dot}edu
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Classes typically taught:
- Applied Mathematical Analysis
- Applied Linear Algebra
Research interests:
- Mathematical models in immunology utilizing a variety of methods including differential equations and stochastic techniques
- The role of randomness in dynamical systems
- Creativity and dreaming
Selected publications:
- S.S. Kiware, N. Chitnis, S.J. Moore, G.J. Devine, S. Majambere, S. Merrill, G.F. Killeen, (2012), Simplified models of vector control impact upon malaria transmission by zoophagic mosquitoes, PLoS ONE, 7(5): e37661. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037661
- S.J. Merrill, Markov Chains for identifying nonlinear dynamics, in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using Real Data, Stephen J. Guastello and Robert A.M. Gregson, eds., CRC Press (2010), 401-423.
- Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Dennis Brylow, Rong Ge, Praveen Madiraju, Steve Merrill, Craig Struble, and Jim Early, Computational Thinking in the Sciences: A Three Day Workshop For High School Science Teachers, In Proceedings of SIGCSE 2010: The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pages 42-46, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 2010.
- S. J. Merrill, The state of the science of nonlinear dynamics in 1963, Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences, 13 (2009) 249-256.
- E. Tick, S. Merrill, and A. Huber, Sheepish: Health store as healing sanctuary, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, 4 (2008), 63-65.
Summer 2013 Research Experience
