Graeme Bailey
Professor
bailey@cs.cornell.edu
Ph.D. Univ. of Birmingham, U.K., 1977
Originally working in
low-dimensional
topology and
combinatorial group
theory, through an odd
mixture of circumstances
I have become actively
involved in research in
mathematics and
medicine. One of two
ongoing research
projects in this area is
the modeling of lung
inflation, together with a
research group at the
Class One Trauma
Center in Syracuse. This
is in the early stages of a
program to extend to
various pathologies
affecting elasticity and
aimed towards effective
clinical treatments.
We've been fortunate
this year to have made
some significant
advances in answering
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some questions which
had remained unsolved
for over 30 years.
The other project is in understanding
deformations of transmembrane
proteins used in cell-signaling
processes. This is a carefully
constrained version of the
protein-folding problems which have
been exciting the mathematical biology
community in recent years; the
application of a topological viewpoint
in collaborating with molecular
pharmacologists and structural
biologists has already yielded some
intriguing insights.
Honors
-
Best Summer Session Faculty,
Cornell Univ., 1998
University Activities
- Member: Field of Mathematics
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Fellowship Selection
Committee: Rhodes, Marshall,
Churchill, and Fulbright
- Faculty Advisor: Judo Club and
Math Club
- Cornell EMS
- Risley Faculty Fellow
Lectures
- Shape....and closeness. Mind
and memory: Explorations of
creativity in the arts and
sciences, Cornell Univ., Feb.
1999.
- The shape and size of the
universe in 40 minutes. Cornell
Math Club, Oct 1998.
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