Adam M. Halasz
Assistant Professor of
Mathematics
Contact Information
Address:
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307G Armstrong Hall
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Phone:
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304-293-6305
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Fax:
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304-293-3982
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Email:
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Username halasz at math.wvu.edu
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Web:
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http://www.math.wvu.edu/~halasz
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Research
interests
molecular
systems biology, stringent response and
persistence in E.coli
and M.tb, mesoscopic
phenomena in cells, multiple phenotypes and switching mechanisms,
rescaling of model parameters from single cells to cell populations, metabolic networks, producibility, extreme
conservation laws, biologically inspired
controllers for swarms of robots, hybrid
dynamical systems models of biomolecular networks,
reachability, piecewise linear and multilinear
systems, spatial Monte Carlo models
Courses
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Spring 2014 |
MATH
420 Intro. Numerical Methods (West Virginia University / Arts and
Sciences) |
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Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Fall 2012/Spring 2013 |
MATH
593 / MATH 793 Mathematical Systems Biology I/II |
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Spring 2012 Fall 2008 |
MATH
156 Calculus II |
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Spring 2010 |
MATH
521 Numerical Methods for PDE |
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Fall 2009 |
MATH
251 Multivariate Calculus |
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Spring 2007 |
ESE
680-003 Systems Biology. (University of Pennsylvania / Engineering) |
Education
Sept.
2004 - Aug. 2006
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NIH-NLM bioinformatics fellowship,
Mentors:
Vijay Kumar and Harvey Rubin
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Aug.
1995 - Aug. 1998
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Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics,
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Aug.
1993 - Dec. 1995
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M. A. in Physics,
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June
1984 - June 1989
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State Diploma in Physics,
Atomic
physics
Advisor: Viorica Florescu
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Academic
and research positions
August
2008 - present
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Assistant Professor, West Virginia University, Department of Mathematics
Bio-mathematics
(funding:
NIH-NCI, WVU, MBR Cancer Center)
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July
2003 - August 2008
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Research Scientist, University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering
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July
2001 - July 2003
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy
National
Digital Medical Archive project (funding: NIH-NLM)
Advisor:
Robert Hollebeek
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Oct. 1998 - June 2001
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear
theory (funding:
NSF)
Advisor:
Ralph Amado
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July
1990 - Aug. 1993
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Research scientist, Institute of Environmental Research and Engineering, Bucharest Environmental
radioactivity (funding: Romanian Ministry of Environment)
Supervisors: Iolanda Osvath, Constantin Dovlete
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Publications (last updated July 2008)
Computational biology, swarm robotics
Journal
publications and book chapters
A.
Halasz, V. Kumar, M. Imielinski, C. Belta, O. Sokolsky, S. Pathak, Analysis of Lactose Metabolism in E.coli using
Reachability Analysis of Hybrid Systems, IET Systems Biology, 1, 130 (2007)
A.A. Julius, A. Halasz. S. Sakar, V. Kumar, G. J. Pappas, Controlling biological systems:
the lactose regulation system of E.coli, IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control
Special
Issue on Systems Biology, 51-64 (2007).
Berman,
S., A. Halasz, V. Kumar, MARCO: A Reachability Algorithm for
Multi-Affine Systems with Application to Biological Systems, accepted to
the 10th Int’l Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control,
Berman,
S., A. Halasz, V. Kumar, Algorithms for Analysis and Synthesis of a
Bio-Inspired Swarm Robotic System, Swarm Robotics Workshop, 9th Int’l Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive
Behavior (SAB’06), Rome, Italy; LNCS 4433, 56-70 (2007).
Imielinski M,
C. Belta,
H. Rubin, A Halasz, Systematic analysis of conservation relations in E.coli genome-scale metabolic network reveals novel growth media, Biophys J. 2006, Apr 15; 90(8):2659-72.
Imielinski M,
C. Belta,
A Halasz, H. Rubin, Investigating metabolite
essentiality through genome-scale analysis of Escherichia coli production
capabilities, Bioinformatics. 2005 May 1; 21(9):2008-16.
Belta, C., P. Finin, L. C. Habets, A. Halasz,
M. Imielinski, V. Kumar, and H. Rubin, Understanding
the bacterial stringent response using reachability analysis of hybrid systems,
7th Int’l workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control,
LNCS 2993, R. Alur and G. J. Pappas (Eds.) 111-125,
2004.
Conference
proceedings
A Halasz, M. A. Hsieh, S. Berman, V. Kumar, "Dynamic Redistribution of a Swarm of Robots among Multiple Sites", Proc. of the 2007 IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2320-2325 (2007).
Julius, A. Halasz, V. Kumar, G.J. Pappas, "Controlling
biological systems: the lactose regulation system of Escherichia coli",
Proc. of the 26th American
Control Conference,
Berman,
S., A Halasz, V. Kumar, S. Pratt, Bio-Inspired
Group Behaviors for the Deployment of a Swarm of Robots to Multiple
Destinations, Proc. of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation, (ICRA 2007) Rome, Italy.
A.A. Julius, A. Halasz, V. Kumar, G.J.
Pappas,
Finite state abstraction of a stochastic model of the lactose regulation system
of Escherichia coli, Proc. Of the 45th
IEEE Conf. Decision and Control 2006,
Ahmadzadeh,
A. Halasz, S. Prajna, A. Jadbabaie,
and V. Kumar., Analysis of the Lactose
metabolism in E. coli using sum-of-squares decomposition. ECC-CDC 2005,
Seville, Spain, Proc. of the 44th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control
2005.
Nuclear and Atomic Physics
Journal articles and
conference proceedings
M. A. Halasz,
R.D. Amado, Skyrmion-AntiSkyrmion
Annihilation with Omega Mesons , Phys. Rev. D 63 (2001), 054020, hep-ph/0009260 .
R.D. Amado, M. A.
Halasz, P. Protopapas , Two Skyrmion Dynamics with Omega Mesons , Phys. Rev. D
61 (2000), 074022, hep-ph/9909426 .
M.A. Halasz,
J.C. Osborn, M. Stephanov, J. J. M. Verbaarschot , Random Matrices and the Convergence of
Partition Function Zeros in Finite Density QCD , Phys. Rev. D 61 (2000),
076005, hep-lat/9908018 .
M.A. Halasz,
Random Matrices and the
M.A. Halasz,
A. D. Jackson, R. Shrock, M. Stephanov,
J. J. M. Verbaarschot , On the Phase Structure
of QCD , Phys. Rev. D58 (1998), 096007, hep-ph/9804290 .
M.A. Halasz,
J. V. Steele, G. Q. Li, G. E. Brown , Photon Rates for Heavy-Ion
Collisions from Hidden Local Symmetry , Phys. Rev. C58 (1998), 365, nucl-th/9712006 .
M.A. Halasz,
J.C. Osborn, J.J.M. Verbaarschot , Random
Matrix Triality at Nonzero Chemical Potential ,
Phys. Rev. D56 (1997), 7059, hep-lat/9704007.
M.A.Halasz,
A.D. Jackson, J.J.M. Verbaarschot , Fermion
Determinants in Matrix Models of QCD at Nonzero Chemical Potential ,
Phys. Rev. D56 (1997), 5140, hep-lat/9703006 .
M.A.Halasz,
A.D. Jackson, J.J.M. Verbaarschot , Yang-Lee
Zeros of a Random Matrix Model for QCD at Finite Density , Phys. Lett. B395 (1997), 293, hep-lat/9611008 .
M.A.Halasz,
T.Kalkreuter, J.J.M.Verbaarschot,
Universal Correlations in Spectra of the Lattice QCD Dirac Operator ,
Lattice '96, St.Louis, MO, 4-8 June 1996; Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 53 (1997), 266, hep-lat/9607042 .
M.A.Halasz,
and J.J.M.Verbaarschot , Effective Lagrangians and Chiral Random Matrix Theory , Phys.
Rev. D52 (1995), 2563, hep-th/9502096 .
M.A.Halasz,
and J.J.M.Verbaarschot , Universal Correlations
in Spectra of the Lattice Dirac Operator , Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995), 3920, hep-lat/9501025.
V.Florescu,
M.A.Halasz, M.Marinescu
, Second-order Corrections to the Wave Functions of a Coulomb Field
Electron in a Weak Uniform Harmonic Electric Field , Phys. Rev. A47
(1993), 394.
M.A.Halasz,
J. Osborn, M. Stephanov and J.Verbaarschot
, Random
Matrices and Algorithms for Lattice QCD at m¹0
, in Proceedings of the ECT* Workshop on Understanding Deconfinement in QCD,
M.A.Halasz,
Random
Matrices and the Glasgow Method, Workshop on QCD at Finite Density,
Bielefeld, Germany, April 1998, Nucl. Phys. A642
(1998), 324.
V. Cuculeanu, N. Romanof, M.A.Halasz, Non-Local
Model for Radon and Thoron Diffusion, Fifth
International Symposium on the Natural Radiation Environment, Salzburg,
Austria, 1991; Published in Radiation Protection Dosimetry
45 (1992), 411.