SERVICE

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Boards, Executive Committees, etc:

  • 2009-2011 Program Director, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) SIAG Activity Group on Life Sciences (Elected by Society Members).
  • 2006-2009 Board Member, Society/Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS). (Elected by Board). Travel Committee member 2006-2007; Travel Committee Chair 2007-2009.

    Conferences, Workshops and Mini-Symposia Organized:

  • Co-Chair, SIAM Conference on Life Sciences (San Diego, CA), August 2012
  • Co-Chair, SIAM Conference on Life Sciences (Pittsburgh, PA), July 2010
  • Co-Organizer, NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Synchronous Activity in Biological Systems, (Knoxville, TN), April 2011
  • Co-Organizer, Mini-symposium on the “Using Phase Response Curve to Understand Neurodynamics”. SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems. (Snowbird, UT). May 2011.
  • Co-Organizer, Workshop on "Neuronal Gap Junctions: Modeling Approaches, Insights and Possible Roles" at CNS*2008 (Annual Meeting on Computational Neuroscience - Portland, OR), July 2008.
  • Co-Organizer, Mini-symposium on the “Analysis & Dynamics of Neuronal Systems”. SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems. (Snowbird, UT), May 2007.
  • Co-Organizer, Mini-symposium on "Waves and Coherent Structures in Neural Systems". SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems. (Snowbird, UT), May 2005.
  • Co-Organizer, Computational and Mathematical Biology Workshop: MAA Professional Enhancement Program. (Boone, NC), July 2004.
  • Co-Organizer, Mini-symposium on "Neural Dynamics and Behavior". SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems. (Snowbird, UT), May 2003.

    Reviewing Work:

  • 2010 Review Panelist, National Science Foundation NSF-CRCNS Grants, (Arlington, VA).
  • 2010 External Reviewer, National Science Foundation NSF-DMS Grant Proposals.
  • 2009 Review Panelist, National Science Foundation NSF-CDI Grants, (Arlington, VA)
  • 2007 NSF-DMS Grants Review Panelist - Mathematical Biology, (Arlington, VA).
  • 2007 External Reviewer for NSERC (Canada) Discovery Grant Proposals.
  • 2006 Panelist for a NSF organized workshop to assess the need and structure of a new national center for Mathematical modeling in biology. (Washington, D.C.)
  • 2006 NSF-DMS Grants Review Panelist - Mathematical Biology, (Arlington, VA).
  • 2006 External Reviewer for NSERC (Canada) Grant Proposals.
  • 2005 External Reviewer for NSERC (Canada) Grant Proposals.

  • Member, Review committee for the Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting
    CNS*2011 (Stockholm, Sweden, July 2011)
    CNS*2010 (San Antonio, TX, July 2010)
    CNS*2009 (Berlin, Germany, July 2009)
    CNS*2008 (Portland, OR, July 2008)
    CNS*2007 (Toronto, Canada, July 2007)
    CNS*2006 (Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 2006)
    CNS*2005 (Madison, WI, July 2005)
    CNS*2004 (Baltimore, MD, July 2004)

  • Journals Reviewed for (since coming to UC Davis):
    SIAM Journal of Dynamical Systems, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, Physica D, Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters A, Proceeding of the National Academy of Science USA, IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Medicine and Biology, Mathematical Biosciences, Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Neurocomputing, Biophysical Journal, Neural Computation, Journal of Neurophysiology, Network: Computation in Neural Systems, Physics Review E, PLoS Computational Neuroscience.
    Teaching:

  • University of Ottawa (International) Summer School in Computational Neuroscience – Instructor June 2008, June 2009, June 2010, June 2011 ...

    DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

    2010-2011
  • Member, Tenure-Track Position (Mathematical Biology) Search Committee
  • Faculty Advisor, UC Davis SIAM Student Chapter
    • 2009-2010
  • Member, Faculty Representative Committee
  • Member, Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics (GGAM) Executive Committee
  • Member, Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics (GGAM) Admissions Committee
  • Organizer, GGAM mini-conference
  • Faculty Advisor, UC Davis SIAM Student Chapter
    • 2008-2009
  • Member, Faculty Representative Committee
  • Member, Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics (GGAM) Executive Committee
  • Member, Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics (GGAM) Admissions Committee
  • Member, Teaching Review Committee
  • Organizer, Mathematical Biology Seminar Series (F, W, S)
  • Leader, Research Focus Group in Mathematical Biology
    • 2007-2008
  • Member, Faculty Representative Committee
  • Member, Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics (GGAM) Executive Committee
  • Member, Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics (GGAM) Admissions Committee
  • Chair, Mentoring/Review Committee for new Associate-Instructors
  • Faculty Advisor, Explore Math*
    • 2006-2007
  • Chair, Undergraduate Research Coordinator and Outreach Committee
  • Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Math Club
  • Faculty Advisor, Explore Math*
  • Member, Tenure-Track Position (Biological Networks) Search Committee
    • 2005-2006
  • Chair, Undergraduate Research Coordinator and Outreach Committee
  • Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Math Club
  • Faculty Advisor, Explore Math*
  • Organizer, Math Biology Seminar Series (F, W, S)
    • 2004-2005
  • Mentor/Supervisor Program for new Associate-Instructors
  • Member, Undergraduate Mathematics Competition Committee

    • * Explore Math is an extensive outreach program run primarily by graduate students in the Mathematics and the Applied Mathematics graduate programs at UC Davis (http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~exploration/)

    UC DAVIS CAMPUS SERVICE

    2010-2011
  • Academic Senate Representative
  • Steering Committee Member, Mentorship for Undergraduate Research Participants in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences (MURPPS)*
    • 2009-2010
  • Member, Undergraduate Council
  • Academic Senate Representative
  • Steering Committee Member, Mentorship for Undergraduate Research Participants in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences (MURPPS)*
    • 2008-2009
  • Member, Undergraduate Council
  • Academic Senate Representative (Alternate)
  • Steering Committee Member, Mentorship for Undergraduate Research Participants in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences (MURPPS)*
    • 2007-2008
  • Academic Senate Representative (Alternate)
  • Steering Committee Member, Mentorship for Undergraduate Research Participants in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences (MURPPS)*
    • 2006-2007
  • Steering Committee Member, Mentorship for Undergraduate Research Participants in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences (MURPPS)*
    • 2004-2005
  • Grant Reviewer – Academic Federation Innovative Development Awards (IDA)
  • Mathematical and Computational Biology Steering Committee (Office of Research)

    • * MURPPS is a UC Davis undergraduate mentoring program designed to increase the number of underrepresented students who pursue graduate studies in the phyical and mathematical sciences (http://undergraduateresearch.ucdavis.edu/murpps/)

    http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~tlewis/promo/