Basic Information

William Clayton Thompson ('Clay')

Research Assistant Professor
Center for Research in Scientific Computation
Department of Mathematics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina


Parc Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain

Office: Cox 506A (919-513-7084)

Research Interests

Mathematical/computational immunology and physiology, pathogensis modeling, treatment/control
Mathematical modeling and inverse problem/calibration techniques
Mathematical and statistical aspects of inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, variability modeling
Applications of functional analysis

Current Research

Computational methods for nonparametric estimation of measures in inverse problems
Quantitative analysis of dynamic responsiveness in lymphocyte cultures
Modeling of growth/division/differentiation within the cell cycle
Statistical/error modeling for random sampling of a dynamic population (in particular, via flow cytometry)

Recent Publications

(all publications)

H.T. Banks, Karyn L. Sutton, W. Clayton Thompson, G. Bocharov, Marie Doumic, Tim Schenkel, Jordi Argilaguet, Sandra Giest, Cristina Peligero, and Andreas Meyerhans, A New Model for the Estimation of Cell Proliferation Dynamics Using CFSE Data, J. Immunological Methods (accepted).
CRSC-TR11-05


Recent Presentations

(all presentations)

Mathematical Modeling of Dynamic Responsiveness for Human Lymphocyte Proliferation Assays in vitro,
Invited talk, Istanbul Conference on Mathematical Methods and Modeling in Life Sciences and Biomedicine 2011 (ICMMM-LSBM 2011)
Yeditepe University
Sile, Turkey (15-19 August 2011)

Applied Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar (AMGSS)

"Mathematical Modeling of Dynamic Responsiveness for Human Lymphocyte Proliferation Assays in vitro", 12 September 2011


Current Schedule

(past coursework)
MA 513, Introduction to Complex Variables (J. Rodriguez)
MA 893, Doctoral Supervised Research (H.T. Banks)
MA 895, Dissertation Supervised Research (H.T. Banks)



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