Daniel Cooney
danielcooney1.bsky.social
Daniel Cooney
@danielcooney1.bsky.social
Applied mathematician at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Interested in evolutionary game theory, differential equations, and modeling biological and social systems.
Right now, Professor Swati Patel from Oregon State University is giving a talk on the survival or extinction of structured populations in the presence of pulsed controls.

Please see below for information to join.
I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

Please see the link below for more information.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar
The Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be a series of virtual talks on mathematical biology featuring speakers from the Midwest region and beyond. All areas of mathematical biology will be repr...
sites.google.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reposted by Daniel Cooney
I’m recruiting students this upcoming cycle at UIUC! I’m excited about Qs on societal impact of AI, especially human-AI collaboration, multi-agent interactions, incentives in data sharing, and AI policy/regulation (all from both a theoretical and applied lens). Apply through CS & select my name!
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Right now, Dr. Ruby Kim from the University of Michigan is giving a talk on Mechanistic Modeling of Dopamine Rhythms.

Please see below for information to join the seminar.
I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

Please see the link below for more information.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar
The Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be a series of virtual talks on mathematical biology featuring speakers from the Midwest region and beyond. All areas of mathematical biology will be repr...
sites.google.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Right now, Dr. Hyukpyo Hong from the University of Wisconsin - Madison is giving a talk on asymptotic robustness of biochemical systems.

Please see below for more information about the seminar.
I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

Please see the link below for more information.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar
The Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be a series of virtual talks on mathematical biology featuring speakers from the Midwest region and beyond. All areas of mathematical biology will be repr...
sites.google.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Right now, we are hosting a talk by Professor Folashade Agusto from the University of Kansas. Please see the link below for more info about the talk.
I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

Please see the link below for more information.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar
The Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be a series of virtual talks on mathematical biology featuring speakers from the Midwest region and beyond. All areas of mathematical biology will be repr...
sites.google.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Daniel Cooney
The first portion of this talk is about a recent #BulletinMathBio paper by Hwai-Ray Tung and Sean Lawley on the effect of missed doses of antibiotics on the dynamics of a bacterial infection.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Right now, Ray Tung from the University of Utah is giving a talk titled "Strolling through space - missed antibiotic doses and extreme first passage times".

Please see the link below for more information about joining the seminar.
I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

Please see the link below for more information.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar
The Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be a series of virtual talks on mathematical biology featuring speakers from the Midwest region and beyond. All areas of mathematical biology will be repr...
sites.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
As part of this project, Chenning made a Python package called Piegy for simulation stochastic spatial models of evolutionary games with diffusive or payoff-driven motion on spatial lattices.

pypi.org/project/pieg...
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I am happy to share this new preprint with @tianyongyao.bsky.social and Chenning Xu on "Pattern Formation in Agent-Based and PDE Models for Evolutionary Games with Payoff-Driven Motion".

arxiv.org/abs/2509.20538
Pattern Formation in Agent-Based and PDE Models for Evolutionary Games with Payoff-Driven Motion
Spatial structure can play an important role in the evolution of cooperative behavior and the achievement of collective success of a population. In this paper, we explore the role of random and direct...
arxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Right now, Naghmeh Akhavan from the University of Michigan is giving a talk about collective cell migration in Drosophila egg development.

See the post below for information about the seminar.
I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

Please see the link below for more information.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar
The Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be a series of virtual talks on mathematical biology featuring speakers from the Midwest region and beyond. All areas of mathematical biology will be repr...
sites.google.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Right now, Po-Chun Kuo from Purdue University is giving a talk on "Dynamics of Immersed Interface Interface Problems in Stokes Flow". Please see the link below for more information on joining the talk.
I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

Please see the link below for more information.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar
The Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be a series of virtual talks on mathematical biology featuring speakers from the Midwest region and beyond. All areas of mathematical biology will be repr...
sites.google.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Right now, Maxwell Kreider from Penn State is giving a talk on Synchronization of Stochastic Oscillators at our virtual seminar. See the link here for more information to join the talk

sites.google.com/view/midwest....
September 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reposted by Daniel Cooney
I'm super excited to have joined @ubcmath.bsky.social
and @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social !! Please get in touch if you might be interested in graduate studies or postdoctoral research opportunities!
Help us give a warm welcome to Dr. Chadi Saad-Roy, who is joining UBC Mathematics this fall as an Assistant Professor, jointly appointed in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology (‪@ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social‬).

Full details tinyurl.com/4zwdmr8b
September 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Reposted by Daniel Cooney
Exciting news! I am delighted to announce that our paper "Phase Chimera States: Frozen Patterns of Disorder" was published in Chaos
@aip-publishing.bsky.social pubs.aip.org/aip/cha/arti...
@stevenstrogatz.com
Phase chimera states: Frozen patterns of disorder
Coupled oscillators can serve as a testbed for larger questions of pattern formation across many areas of science and engineering. Much effort has been dedicate
pubs.aip.org
September 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In case anyone is interested in attending, Tin's talk is about to start.
Our first talk will be this coming Tuesday (11am Eastern / 10 Central). Tin Phan from Los Alamos National Labs will be speaking on mathematical modeling on the immune dynamics of latently infected viral cells.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...
September 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by Daniel Cooney
Open-rank open-area faculty search in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Application deadline: November 3, 2025.

Please share widely!

www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/26...
MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society
Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.
www.mathjobs.org
August 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Reposted by Daniel Cooney
Please list your online science, math, etc. seminars on researchseminars.org
(apologies if you have already done it)
August 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Our first talk will be this coming Tuesday (11am Eastern / 10 Central). Tin Phan from Los Alamos National Labs will be speaking on mathematical modeling on the immune dynamics of latently infected viral cells.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...
August 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Reposted by Daniel Cooney
Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!
August 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Reposted by Daniel Cooney
Happy to share our research on traditional farming landscapes in northwest Himalaya is out in Science Advances! Thanks to my advisor Tulja & all the wonderful collaborators- Ale @ornithoale.bsky.social, Katie @kasolari.bsky.social, Akshata, Kullu, Rinchen, Lamaji. 1/7 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

Please see the link below for more information.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...
Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar
The Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be a series of virtual talks on mathematical biology featuring speakers from the Midwest region and beyond. All areas of mathematical biology will be repr...
sites.google.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I also recommend following Andrei's Youtube channel, which will feature videos related to machine learning, applied mathematics, and data science.

www.youtube.com/@AndreiTeach...
July 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reposted by Daniel Cooney
Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:
July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Reposted by Daniel Cooney
The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
July 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Daniel Cooney
Very excited for this--see you in Chicago next May!
I am really happy to share that there will be a @nitmb.bsky.social workshop next year on mathematical and biological features of evolutionary game theory.

It was really fun to co-organize this workshop with Olivia Chu, Alex McAvoy, and @jplotkin.bsky.social.

www.nitmb.org/evolutionary...
Evolutionary Games: Mathematical Theory and Biological Insights
www.nitmb.org
July 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM