Morsky Lab

About

Welcome to the Morsky Lab website. We work at the crossroads of mathematics, biology, and economics. Lab members are primarily interested in understanding biological and economic systems through mathematical modelling. Much of this work focuses on cooperation and coordination in a variety of settings, such as human communities, cancer, and infectious diseases. Additionally, many biological and abiological systems are heavily impacted by human behaviour, and so incorporating behaviour into such models is critical in understanding their dynamics. To study such systems, we frequently employ a game theoretical framework that features social dilemmas. We are interested in cases where social dilemmas arises, how they arise, and how they may be ameliorated.

The lab is currently accepting graduate students. Information for prospective graduate students can be found on the Department's website. For current FSU grad students, please send an email to Bryce Morsky at bmorsky@fsu.edu. Informal inquiries are welcome. A strong background in and enthusiams for mathematical or computational theory in ecology, evolution, and/or economics is ideal. There are a great variety of complex biological and economic systems that we can explore.

People

Bryce Morsky

Bryce is an Assistant Professor of Biomathematics in the Department of Mathematics at Florida State University. He completed his MSc and PhD in Mathematics at the University of Guelph under the guidance of Chris Bauch, and was a postdoc under Derviş Can Vural at the University of Notre Dame, Erol Akçay at the University of Pennsylvania, and Troy Day and Felicia Magpantay at Queen's University.

Jonathan Engle

Jonathan completed his BS in Mathematics and BA in Quantitative Economics at Drake University. Currently, he is an Applied and Computational Mathematics PhD candidate at Florida State University. His research interests include evolutionary game theory, dynamical systems, and computational methods for games.

Louis Rubin

Louis received his BS in Mathematics from Temple University and his MA in Mathematics from Saint Louis University. Currently, he is a PhD student in Pure Mathematics at Florida State University. His research interests include algebra and number theory. Here is a recent publication: Rubin, L., 2024. A correspondence induced by an involution centralizing an index-two subgroup. Quasigroups & Related Systems, 32(2). [journal]

Former members

Neel Pandula

Neel is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania and has a publication on indirect reciprocity: Pandula, N., Akçay, E. and Morsky, B., 2024. Indirect reciprocity with abductive reasoning. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 580, p.111715. [journal]

Ruiyang Su

Ruiyang has a Bachelor's from Queen's University and a Master's from Nanyang Technological University Singapore. And she has a publication on relational utility and norms in games.

Zhuoer Zhang

Zhuoer has a Bachelor's from Queen's University in physics and is planning to get a Master's degree in computer engineering at New York University. His interests include: classical, evolutionary, algorithmic, and epistemic game theory; optimization; and quantitative finance. He has a preprint on applications of linear programming, maximin strategies and their relaxed convex hulls on regining truncation selection models: Zhang, Z. and Morsky, B., 2024. A maximin based, linear programming approach to worst-case scenario control. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.14547. [preprint]

Zuojun Zhou

Zuojun has a Bachelor's from Queen's University and is a graduate student at John Hopkins University in applied math and statistics. His interests include evolution within the market and society, especially evolutionary game theory.

Elina Zhuang

Elina has a Bachelor's from Queen's University and is a graduate student at Cornell University in Financial Engineering. She's interested in evolutionary game theory, machine learning, and mathematical finance.

Contact

bmorsky@fsu.edu

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