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contact research publications teaching pop-science           Dr. Anna Ochab-Marcinek Department of Statistical Physics M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science Jagellonian University Poland Contact e-mail: anna.ochab-marcinek@uj.edu.pl phone: +48 12 663 58 33 fax: +48 12 633 40 79 office: 651 Mailing address: ZakÅ‚ad Fizyki Statystycznej Instytut Fizyki Uniwersytet JagielloÅ„ski ul. Reymonta 4 30-059 Kraków, Polska (Poland) Research interests Stochastic models of biological and biochemical systems, in particular: gene expression signal transduction in neurons cell cycle tumor growth Stochastic processes in theory of chemical kinetics numerical methods for simulation of stochastic processes object-oriented programming and its application to simulations and numerical computations Publications A. Ochab-Marcinek, G. Schmid, I. Goychuk, P. Hanggi, Noise-assisted spike propagation in myelinated neurons, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E A. Fiasconaro, A. Ochab-Marcinek, B. Spagnolo, E. Gudowska-Nowak, Monitoring noise-resonant effects in cancer growth influenced by external fluctuations and periodic treatment, Eur. Phys. J. B 65, 435-442 (2008) [arxiv preprint] Anna Ochab-Marcinek, Predicting the asymmetric response of a genetic switch to noise, J. Theor. Bio. 254 (2008) 37-44 [arxiv preprint] B. Spagnolo, A.A. Dubkov, A.L. Pankratov, E.V. Pankratova, A. Fiasconaro, A. Ochab-Marcinek Lifetime of Metastable States and Suppression of Noise in Interdisciplinary Physical Models. Acta Physica Polonica B 38(5) 2007, 1925. Anna Ochab-Marcinek, Alessandro Fiasconaro, Ewa Gudowska-Nowak, Bernardo Spagnolo, Coexistence of resonant activation and noise-enhanced stability in a model of tumor-host interaction: Statistics of extinction times. Acta Physica Polonica B 37(5) 2006, 1651. Alessandro Fiasconaro, Bernardo Spagnolo, Anna Ochab-Marcinek, Ewa Gudowska- Nowak, Co-occurrence of resonant activation and noise-enhanced stability in a model of cancer growth in the presence of immune response. Physical Review E 74, 041904 (2006) [arxiv preprint] Anna Ochab-Marcinek: Transient pattern formation in a stochastic model of cancer growth, Fluctuation and Noise Letters 5(2) (2005) L331 [arxiv preprint] Anna Ochab-Marcinek: Pattern formation in a stochastic model of cancer growth , Acta Physica Polonica B 36(6) (2005) 1963 [arxiv preprint] Anna Ochab-Marcinek, Ewa Gudowska-Nowak: Population growth and control in stochastic models of cancer development, Physica A, 343 (2004) 557-572 [arxiv preprint] Teaching 2008/2009: Introductory theory of informatics Introductory mathematics for students of applied computer science Popular science Texts on physics for Tygodnik Powszechny weekly: Anna Ochab-Marcinek, Doktorat z telepatii (Ph.D. in telepathy), Tygodnik Powszechny 45 (3096) 9.11.2008 Anna Ochab-Marcinek, WiÄ™cej niż mrówek (More than ants), Tygodnik Powszechny 37 (3088) 14.9.2008 Blog Åšwiat: Jak To DziaÅ‚a? (World: How Does It Work?) for Tygodnik Powszechny. Blog BÄ™dÄ…c mÅ‚odym Fizykiem (Being a Young Physicist), a collection of the most interesting pseudo-science ideas. Go to the cv section for more information.