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Department of Mathematics and Statistics Faculty of Science Faculty of Social Sciences |
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics Faculty of Science Faculty of Social Sciences |
Research at Rolf Nevanlinna InstituteThe research of the Institute focuses on contract research with industry and business and other research institutes. The main fiels of research in the Institute are biometry, biomathematics and inverse problems.BiometryThe main scientific goal of the Biometry research group is to carry out original methodological research, with an
emphasis on concrete scientific problems coming from biology, medicine and public health. The research is done with
extensive collaboration with international and national collaborators, especially with the National Institute of
Public Health. Research topics are currently focussed on the statistical methods applied to genetic mapping,
mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, and on the modeling and statistical analysis of lifetime and duration data.
Biomathematics
In biomathematics one uses mathematical models to get insight into
the mechanisms and behaviour of real biological system. Our
research is focused on the dynamics of physiologically structured
populations and Darwinian evolution by natural selection as well as
classification of bacteria and protein-ligand interactions.
Mathematically, the problems are concerned with the qualitative theory of
a class of infinite dimensional dynamical systems and Bayesian
classification algorithms.
Inverse problems The field of inverse problems is exceptionally interdisciplinary
both in theoretical methods and practical applications. Whenever
a quantitative mathematical model is built from limited and indirect
data, an inverse problem is solved. We develop new methods in pure
mathematics, stochastic analysis and mathematical
modelling, and provide new applications in, for example, medical imaging,
remote sensing and space studies, and material testing.
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