Gheorghe Craciun
    gheorghe craciun
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Mathematics and
    Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
    University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Contact Information:
    405 Van Vleck Hall
    480 Lincoln Dr
    Madison, WI 53706-1388
    Phone: (608) 265-3391
    Fax: (608) 263-8891
    E-mail:     craciun at math dot wisc dot edu

    Teaching: Math 234

    Research Interests:   Mathematical and Computational Methods in Biology and Medicine

    Publications:


      • Understanding Bistability in Complex Enzyme-Driven Reaction Networks, (with Martin Feinberg and Yangzhong Tang), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:23, 8697-8702, 2006. ()

      • Approximate Traveling Waves in Linear Reaction-Hyperbolic Equations, (with Avner Friedman), SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 38:3, 741-758, 2006.  ()

      • Multiple Equilibria in Complex Chemical Reaction Networks: Extensions to Entrapped Species Models, (with Martin Feinberg), IEE Proceedings Systems Biology 153:4, 179-186, 2006.()

      • Multiple Equilibria in Complex Chemical Reaction Networks: II. The Species-Reactions Graph, (with Martin Feinberg), SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 66:4, 1321-1338, 2006.()

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      • Multiple Equilibria in Complex Chemical Reaction Networks: I. The Injectivity Property, (with Martin Feinberg), SIAM Journal on  Applied Mathematics 65:5, 1526-1546, 2005. ()

      • A Model of Intracellular Transport of Particles in an Axon, (with Avner Friedman), Journal of Mathematical Biology, 51:2, 217-246, 2005. ()

      • A Distributed Parameter Identification Problem in Neuronal Cable Theory Models, (with Jonathan Bell), Mathematical Biosciences 194:1, 1-19, 2005. ()

      • Data Sources and Computational Approaches for Generating Models of Gene Regulatory Networks, (with Baltazar Aguda and Rengul Cetin-Atalay), Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Vol. 21, edited by Kenny Lipkowitz, Raima Larter, and Thomas R. Cundari, 2005. ()

      • Spatial Domain Wavelet Design for Feature Preservation in Computational Datasets, (with Ming Jiang, David Thompson, and Raghu Machiraju), accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics  11:2, 149-159, 2005. ()

      • Controlling Release from the Lipidic Cubic Phase by Selective Alkylation, (with Jeffrey Clogston, David Hart, and Martin Caffrey), Journal of Controlled Release, 102:2, 441-461, 2005.()

      • Everybody Else Is: Networks, Power Laws and Peer Contagion in the Aggressive Recess Behavior, (with Keith Warren and Dawn Anderson-Butcher), Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 9:2, 155-173, 2005.

      • Mathematical Analysis of a Modular Network Coordinating the Cell Cycle and Apoptosis, (with Baltazar Aguda and Avner Friedman), Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2:3, 473-485, 2005. ()

      • A dynamical system model of neurofilament transport in axons, (with Anthony Brown and Avner Friedman), Journal of Theoretical Biology 237(3) 316-322, 2005.()

      • Mathematical Models of the Cell Cycle and Apoptosis, (with David Goulet, Namyong Lee, Taras Odushkin, Galen Cook Wiens), MBI Technical Report, 2004.

      • Orientation Preserving Homeomorphisms of the Sphere Have a Cantor Set of Fixed Points, submitted, 2006.

      • Image Segmentation using Neuronal Oscillators, (with Talia Konkle, Ning Jiang, Jie Zhang, Fatma Gurel, Christopher Scheper), MBI Technical Report, 2003.

      • Physics-based feature mining for large data exploration, (with D.S. Thompson, R.K. Machiraju,  M. Jiang, J.S. Nair, S.S.D. Venkata), Computing in Science and Engineering 4:4, 22-30, 2002.()
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      • The Output of Chemical Reactors Is Almost Always Unique. Why ?, Proceedings of the 14th Annual Edward F. Hayes Research Forum, p. 184-189, 2001.

      • A Framework for Filter Design Emphasizing Multiscale Feature Preservation, (with David Thompson, Raghu Machiraju and Ming Jiang), Proceedings of the AHPCRC and CASC/LLNL Third Workshop on Mining Scientific Datasets , p. 105-111, 2001.

      • The Dimension Print of Most Convex Surfaces, (with Tudor Zamfirescu), Monatshefte fur Mathematik 123:3, 203-207, 1997. ()

      • Most Homeomorphisms of the Circle are Semiperiodic, (with Paul Horja, Mihai Prunescu, Tudor Zamfirescu), Archiv der Mathematik 64:5, 452-458, 1995.

      • Generic Properties of the Homeomorphisms of Spheres, Archiv der Mathematik 62:4, 349-353, 1994.

      • On a Covering Theorem, Mathematical Reports 44:2, 109-112, 1992.