Stephanie Dodson

	Krener Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University of California, Davis
	PhD, Applied Mathematics (2019) Brown University Advisor: Björn Sandstede Thesis: Wave Propagation in Spatially Extended Systems
	MSc, Applied Mathematics (2015) Brown University
	BS, Mathematics and Physics (2014) University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Contact

• Office: Mathematical Sciences Building, Room 2145
• E-mail: sadodson [at] ucdavis [dot] edu
  Stephanie_Dodson [at] Alumni [dot] Brown [dot] edu

About

Broadly, my interests include dynamical systems, pattern formation, and mathematical biology. Current and past research have focused on the stability of spiral wave patterns associated with cardiac arrhythmias and chemical oscillations. See my research page for more information!

News:

• New preprint now available on the arXiv!

S. Dodson and B. Sandstede, Determining the source of period-doubling instabilities in spiral waves.

• I successfully defended my PhD thesis on April 8, 2019 and am now a Krener Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at UC Davis.

Upcoming Activities

• December 11-14, 2019: Stability of Spiral Wave Patterns in Models of Excitable and Oscillatory Media, Invited talk at SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations in MS 69, Traveling Waves: Selection Principles and Stability.

Selection of Recent Past Activities

• August 5-9, 2019: Applied Mathematical Modeling with Topological Techniques, workshop at ICERM, Providence, RI
• May 19-23, 2019: SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah
• Co-organizer of the two-part minisymposium MS 60 and MS 73: Theoretical Aspects of Spiral Waves and Traveling Waves in a Cardiac or Neuroscience Context
• Talk titled Role of Specta in Period-Doubling Instabilities of Spiral Waves in MS 60
• May 10, 2019: Wave Propagation in Spatially Extended Systems, Talk in the UC Davis Mathematical Biology Seminar, Davis, CA
• May 3, 2019: Mechanisms driving period-doubling instabilities in spiral waves at Brown-BU-UMass Dynamics and PDE Seminar, Boston University, Boston, MA
• April 8, 2019: Thesis defense, Wave propagation in spatially extended systems, Brown University, Providence, RI
• March 28, 2019: Geometry-Dependent Instabilities of Waves in Excitable Media, Invited Talk in the Center for Bioflim Engineering at Montana State Seminar Series, Bozeman, MT
• January 6, 2019: Mechanisms Driving Period-Doubling Instabilities in Spiral Waves, Contributed Talk at Dynamics Days 2019, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
• November 12, 2018: Talk at Applied Math Graduate Student Seminar, Brown University, Providence, RI
• August 28-30, 2018: Participant in NOAA Ocean Satellite Data Course, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• July 9-13, 2018: Line Defects and Alternans: Period-Doubling Instabilities in Spiral Waves, Invited Talk at SIAM Annual Meeting, in MS138 Nonlinear Waves, Long-time Dynamics, and Stability, Portland, OR
• July 9-13, 2018: Participant and poster presenter in the AWM at SIAM Annual Meeting Workshop, Portland, OR
• June 14, 2018: Stability of Spiral Waves in Models of Cardiac Tissue, Invited talk at SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures in MS41 Spatial Dynamics: Local and Global Results, Anaheim - Orange County, CA
• April 12, 2018: Talk at Brown University SIAM/AWM Math Slam, Providence, RI.
• April 7, 2018: Spectral Stability of Spiral Waves in Models of Cardiac Tissue, Contributed Talk at Advancing Women's Impact in Mathematics Symposium (AWIMS), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
• January 4-6, 2018: Spectral Stability of Spiral Waves in Models of Cardiac Tissue, Ignite talk and poster at Dynamics Days 2018, Denver, CO