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Math appeal: ASU's Castillo-Chavez


June 23, 2011

It was an unusual career path for Carlos Castillo-Chavez, an Arizona State University Regents’ Professor and mathematical epidemiologist. 

Castillo-Chavez reveals that “math was once his fourth love after theater, literature and women,” in an interview with journalist Dolores Tropiano that appears in the July issue of Phoenix magazine. But, he didn’t receive recognition in the theater, and started taking math classes, which he discovered he was good at. 

Now sought out by government agencies around the world for his expertise in the spread of HIV and influenza, Castillo-Chavez also discusses his summer boot camp for undergraduates and the appeal of math in Tropiano’s Q&A. 

Castillo-Chavez is founding director of the Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center in ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He also is a faculty member in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the School of Sustainability.

Article source: Phoenix magazine

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