Matthew Macauley

Position:
Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Education:
PhD, Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008
MA, Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005
BS, Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 2003

Professional Interests:
Discrete, finite dynamical systems over graphs, in particular sequential dynamical systems (SDS) and cellular automata (CA). Graph Theory. Coxeter groups. Geometric combinatorics. Mathematical modeling of disease transmission. Epidemiology. Structure of complex networks. Stochastic discrete dynamical systems, and applications to biological networks. Mechanism design over networks.

Professional Activities:
Visiting Scholar: Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (Virginia Tech). 2008-2009 Project NExT Fellow. Member: Mathematical Association of America.

Selected Publications:

• M. Macauley and H.S. Mortveit. On enumeration of conjugacy classes of Coxeter elements. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 4157-4165.
• M. Macauley, J. McCammond, and H.S. Mortveit. Order independence in asynchronous cellular automata. J. Cell. Autom. 3 (2008), no. 1, 37-56.
• M. Macauley and H.S. Mortveit. Cycle equivalence of graph dynamical systems. Nonlinearity 22 (2009) 421-436.

Related Web Sites:
Personal home page.
Department of Mathematical Sciences.