School of Public Health-Bloomington
2025 Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research

Welcome!

This is an archive of the in-person course held from July 21, 2025 to July 25, 2025.

Welcome to the 2025 Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research short course!

The mathematical sciences including engineering, statistics, computer science, physics, econometrics, psychometrics, epidemiology, and mathematics qua mathematics are increasingly being applied to advance our understanding of the causes, consequences, and alleviation of obesity. These applications do not merely involve routine well-established approaches easily implemented in widely available commercial software. Rather, they increasingly involve computationally demanding tasks, use and in some cases development of novel analytic methods and software, new derivations, computer simulations, and unprecedented interdigitation of two or more existing techniques. Such advances at the interface of the mathematical sciences and obesity research require bilateral training and exposure for investigators in both disciplines.

The learning objectives of this course are to:

Expose researchers from the mathematical sciences and obesity research to the language and methodology at the intersection of both disciplines,
Facilitate collaborations between the two groups through effective contact, and
Guide investigators interested in conducting research at the intersection of the mathematical sciences in obesity on next career steps.

Course Modules

To get started with the course, please take a look at the Course Agenda.

Additionally, you can delve into the course content by clicking on the modules below. You can also access Modules from the navigation menu on the left.

Contact Us

We hope that you find this course informative and engaging! If you have a question about course content or scientific questions, you can contact Dr. Brown at awbrown@uams.edu.