Faculty Spotlight: Cameron Browne

Cameron Browne, PhD joined the Mathematics Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette as an Assistant Professor in August 2015. Browne received his PhD in mathematics in 2012 from the University of Florida. His thesis was supervised by Sergei Pilyugin. He spent the 2012-2013 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Ottawa. From 2013 through the Spring of 2015, he was a postdoctoral assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Browne's research is in the application of differential equations and dynamical systems to biology. In particular, he is interested in modeling the population dynamics of infectious diseases, both within-host and between-host. His work has been motivated by such infectious diseases as HIV, polio, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and Ebola, along with their associated control measures.

In his work, typical mathematical analysis includes formulating threshold quantities and characterizing asymptotic dynamics. For example, in a recent article appearing in "Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications", Dr. Browne proved that competitive exclusion occurs in a structured multi-strain virus model by using ideas from infinite-dimensional dynamical systems theory.

His current research interests include: modeling contact tracing in emerging outbreaks such as the current Ebola epidemic, investigating immune-pathogen dynamics associated with HIV infection, and analyzing structured population models.

In February 2015, the American Mathematical Society and the Simons Foundation awarded Dr. Browne with an AMS--Simons Travel Grant, to be used for research-related travel and to enhance the research environment of the mathematics department here at Lafayette.

Contact Dr. Browne or learn more through these links:
cambrowne@louisiana.edu
Camerone Brown's mathematics department site