Prof. Daniel Krizanc is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University. He received his BSc from the University of Toronto in 1983 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1988, both degrees in Computer Science. He held positions at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, before joining the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University in 1999. His research focus is the design and analysis of algorithms, especially for application to distributed computing, networking, and computational biology.
Prof. Kelly M. Thayer is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Regis College just outside of Boston, MA, in 1999. She then completed her Ph.D. at Wesleyan University in computational chemistry in 2004. Subsequently, she continued learning computational techniques in a series of postdocs at Northwestern University, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She held faculty positions at Vassar College, Assumption College, and Skidmore before joining the faculty at Wesleyan in 2016. Her research interest is in computational molecular biophysics applied to understanding biological molecules. She has explored the application of molecular dynamics, drug design, molecular modeling, molecular engineering, structural bioinformatics, and mathematical model building to a variety of molecular systems to advance the theoretical understanding of how they work as well as gain applicable system-specific insights.
