Hwayeon Ryu, associate professor of mathematics, presented and co-organized a special session at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings held July 28–August 1, 2025 in Montréal, Canada.
Hwayeon Ryu, associate professor of mathematics, attended the Third Joint Annual Meetings, co-organized by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) held July 28–Aug. 1, 2025 in Montréal, Canada.
At the conference, Ryu co-organized a special session entitled “Mathematical Modeling and Its Applications in Life Science and Public Health,” in which a total of four invited speakers presented a variety of life science questions through the lens of mathematical modeling to understand complex system dynamics. The goal was to foster innovation in the application of mathematical, statistical and computational methods to life sciences and public health while encouraging collaboration in mathematical biology research.
In this session, Ryu presented her NSF-funded project, “Mathematical Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Reveals Immune Cell Dysfunction.” She discussed a mathematical model for immune dynamics of COVID-19 to investigate the underlying mechanisms for disease severity and shared the main results around the impact of dysfunction of selected immune components on the disease progression.
Her COVID-19 research and conference trip were supported by NSF DMS 2151990 (PI: Ryu).