I am Aditya, second year student in the interdisciplinary graduate program in Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management (QERM). Like websites of other students, the following pages contain some information about me.

Why Am I Here?

I started in the QERM program in the fall of 2006. I came here because I wanted to learn more math and apply it to ecological problems. There were few programs I found that were set up to provide mathematical students with the direct opportunity to get involved in ecology, which was EXACTLY what I was looking for.

My advisor is Steven Goodreau in Anthropology. We are using the techniques of Social Network Analysis to study HIV transmission. What does disease have to do with ecology? Well, humans are as much a part of the global ecosystem as any other species, and human epidemiology can greatly benefit from being studied in a broader ecological context.

The wonderful thing about QERM is it gives students the flexibility to look around for people who study ecological problems using quantitative techniques, even if they are currently not in the program. So we can find ANYONE on campus that has interests similar to ours, and as long as they have funding, we can work with them.