Olga Vasilieva

Department of Mathematics
Universidad del Valle
Cali, Colombia
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7 September - 15 December 2015:

Münster Graduate School of Evolution
Schlossplatz 6
48149 Münster

olga.vasilieva@correounivalle.edu.co

Nationality: (Colombia since 1997)

Olga Vasilieva is a Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. She holds a Doctor of Engineering from the Hiroshima University in Japan as well as a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the Irkutsk State University in Russia. Prof. Vasilieva's research interests include:

• Optimal control for ODE systems
• Numerical methods for optimization and optimal control
• Differential games
• Population and epidemiological modeling
• Applications of optimization techniques in economics, biology, ecology, and epidemiology
• Mathematical methods and models for sustainable management of natural resources

During her stay, Prof. Vasilieva was a guest of the group of Arndt Telschow. Together they worked on 'Optimal control methods for inducing the Wolbachia infection among the Aedes aegypti populations'.