Calculus for Life Sciences

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sebastian J. Schreiber received his B.A. in mathematics from Boston University in 1989 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995. He is currently Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of California, Davis. Previously, he was an associate professor of mathematics at the College of William and Mary, where he was the 2005 recipient of the Simon Prize for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, and Western Washington University. Professor Schreiber's research on stochastic processes, nonlinear dynamics, and applications to ecology, evolution, and epidemiology has been supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Bureau for Land Management, and the U.S. Fisheries and Wildlife Service. He is the author or co-author of over seventy scientific papers in peer-reviewed mathematics and biology journals, including papers co-authored with undergraduate students. Professor Schreiber is currently on the editorial boards of the research journals Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B, Ecology, Journal of Biological Dynamics, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Medicine and Biology, and Theoretical Ecology.

Karl J. Smith received his B.A. and M.A. (in 1967) degrees in mathematics from UCLA. He moved to northern California in 1968 to teach at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he taught until his retirement in 1993. Along the way, ...