• Question: does this stretch into other fields

    Asked by anon-186825 to Verity, Trystan on 13 Nov 2018.
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      Trystan Leng answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      Definitely! I’m what is called a mathematical modeller – which means I make simplified mathematical versions of aspects of the real world, which can be coded up on a computer. By understanding how these work, we begin to understand more about how those things in the real work. I do mathematical modelling for the spread of infectious diseases, but people in my department do mathematical modelling for neuroscience, traffic, evolution, and crowd movements to name just a few!

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      Verity Hill answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      Yup! Mine is a little less extendable that Trystan’s, but my sort of research involves data from anthropologists, politicians, epidemiologists, medical doctors and many more!
      Also, the models that I use have been used to study how populations of animals changed thousands of years ago. As long as we have genetic information, we can use these models!

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