Research – Scott A McKinley

Invasion Probabilities paper accepted

Congratulations to Becky Borchering! The research paper stemming from the second chapter of her dissertation was accepted today. This paper has a fun working title that we always joke about in the Stochastics Lab. Originally, we expected this to be an easy project — almost too trivial to write up as a research article. IContinue reading “Invasion Probabilities paper accepted”

Shameless self-promotion

Andrew and I were featured in the UF Research News blog today. Some of the summary is a bit off, but still it’s fun to see: “University of Florida researchers improve on an old model for studying predator search patterns.”

My recent career in a sentence …

Computers and algorithms may be getting faster, cheaper and easier, but they simply cannot handle a blind search through the eight-or-more-dimensional parameter space. — Squires, T. M., Messinger, R. J., & Manalis, S. R. (2008). Making it stick: convection, reaction and diffusion in surface-based biosensors. Nature Biotechnology, 26(4), 417–426. From the same article is oneContinue reading “My recent career in a sentence …”