Undergraduate Mathematics Students
Thursday, 10/23: Mathematics and Pizza!
Come enjoy pizza while you listen to this week's SUM Series talk!
A Modeling Study of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Jesse Stimpson
Thursday, October 23, 2008
3:00--3:50 p.m.
Harrelson 107
**Note the unusual location**
Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) is a disorder of unknown cause characterized by abnormally high pressures of the fluid that surrounds the brain, known as cerebrospinal fluid.
In an attempt to better understand IIH, mathematical models display the behavior of the brain's sinuses when introduced to changes in transmural pressure.
The definite causes and proper treatment of IIH escape doctors and scientists.
Disturbances of the brain's blood flow system, such as sudden pressure changes, may be the origin of this disorder.
We consider two simple compartmental differential equation models, which describe the dynamics of pressure changes on the brains sinuses and surrounding regions.
Such changes may cause a partial collapse of the sinus, thus causing increased resistance to natural blood flow.
This project started out as an undergraduate research project here at NCSU.
The talk will be accessible to undergraduates.
Check out the SUM Series website for more information on the SUM Series.
Upcoming topics include:
Ranking sports teams with Google's PageRank.
The mathematics of voting.
Math movie nite (afternoon)
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Posted at 03:35PM Oct 17, 2008 by nreadin in Conferences and Meetings | Comments[0]