Rodica Curtu, University of Iowa
Publications

Research Articles

1. Bruce A., Weber M., Bova A., Volkman A., Jacobs C., Sivakumar K., Stutt H., Kim Y., Curtu R., Narayanan N. (2024) Complementary cognitive roles for D2-MSNs and D1-MSNs in interval timing. See biorxiv.

2. Melland P., Curtu R. (2023) Attractor-like dynamics extracted from human electrocorticographic recordings underlie computational principles of auditory bistable perception. The Journal of Neuroscience 43(18), pp. 3294 - 3311. Download pdf file.

3. Nguyen Q-A., Rinzel J., Curtu R. (2020) Buildup and bistability in auditory streaming as an evidence accumulation process with saturation. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(8): e1008152, pp.1-34. Download pdf file.

4. Curtu R, Denham S. (2020) Auditory Sensing Systems: Overview. Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience (Eds. Dieter Jaeger, Ranu Jung), 1-3:doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_764-2. Springer.

5. Curtu R., Wang X., Brunton B. W., Nourski V. (2019). Neural signatures of auditory perceptual bistability revealed by large-scale human intracranial recordings. The Journal of Neuroscience, 39(33), pp. 6482 - 6497. Download pdf file.

6. Fonley M., Mantilla R., Curtu R. (2019). Doing Hydrology Backwards—Analytic Solution Connecting Streamflow Oscillations at the Basin Outlet to Average Evaporation on a Hillslope. Hydrology 6, 85:1-22 (doi:10.3390/hydrology6040085). Download pdf file.
       This paper was chosen as one of "Editor's Choice Articles". See Hydrology. Editor's Choice articles are based on recommendations by the scientific editors of MDPI journals from around the world. Editors select a small number of articles recently published in the journal that they believe will be particularly interesting to authors, or important in this field. The aim is to provide a snapshot of some of the most exciting work published in the various research areas of the journal.

7. Diedrichs D. R., Gomez J. A., Huang C.-S., Rutkowski T., Curtu R. (2018). A data-entrained computational model for testing the regulatory logic of the vertebrate unfolded protein response. Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), 29(12), pp. 1502 - 1517. Download pdf file. See also paper-related Supplemental Material.
       This paper was selected by the MBoC Editorial Board for highlighting in the ASCB (The American Society for Cell Biology) Newsletter August 2018, vol. 41, no.8, page 28. See Highlights.

8. Wijeakumar S., Ambrose J., Spencer J., Curtu R. (2016). Model-based functional neuroimaging using dynamic neural fields: probing the neural dynamics of response selection and inhibition. Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Special Issue: Model-based Cognitive Neuroscience), 76(Part B), pp. 212 - 235. Download pdf file.

9. Fonley M., Mantilla R., Small S.J., Curtu, R. (2016). On the propagation of diel signals in river networks using analytic solutions of flow equations, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS), 20, pp. 2899 - 2912. Download pdf file.

10. Curtu R., Fonley M. (2015) - Nonlinear response in runoff magnitude to fluctuating rain patterns, Chaos 25, 036409, pp. 1 - 16, doi: 10.1063/1.4913200. Download pdf file.
       This paper was selected by AIP journal editors as one that should be of great interest to reporters. See here the press release.

11. Curtu R., Mantilla R., Fonley M., Cunha L.K., Small S.J., Jay L.O., Krajewski W.F. (2014) - An integral-balance nonlinear model to simulate changes in soil moisture, groundwater, and surface runoff dynamics at the hillslope scale, Advances in Water Resources 71, pp. 125 - 139. Download pdf file.

12. Small S.J., Jay L.O., Mantilla R., Curtu R., Cunha L.K., Fonley M., Krajewski W.F. (2013) - An asynchronous solver for systems of ODEs linked by a directed tree structure, Advances in Water Resources 53, pp. 23 -32. Download pdf file.

13. Mantilla R., Cunha L.K., Krajewski W.F., Small S.J., Jay L.O., Fonley M., Curtu R. (2012) - Simulation of a distributed flood control system using a parallel asynchronous solver for systems of ODEs, Proceeding Applied Simulation and Modelling / 777: Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. DOI: 10.2316/P.2012.776-042. Download pdf file.

14. Curtu R., Jorgensen P.E. (2011). Editorial Note: Alwyn C. Scott and His Legacy in Nonlinear Science. Acta Appl. Math., Nonlinear Waves, Neural Systems and Biomathematics: Special Issue in Memory of Alwyn C. Scott, 115(1), pp. 1 – 3. . Download pdf file.

15. Curtu R. (2011) - Folded saddle-nodes and their normal form reduction in a neuronal rate model. Mathematics and its Applications/Annals of AOSR, 3(1), pp. 69 - 86. Download pdf file.

16. Curtu R., Rubin J. (2011) - Interaction of canard and singular Hopf mechanisms in a neural model, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst., 10(4), pp. 1443 - 1479. Download pdf file.

17. Curtu R. (2010) - Singular Hopf bifurcations and mixed-mode oscillations in a two-cell inhibitory neural network, Physica D 239, pp.504 - 514. Download pdf file.

18. Curtu R., Diedrichs D. (2010) - Small-scale modeling approach and circuit wiring of the unfolded protein response in mammalian cells. In ''Advances in Computational Biology'' (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 680; H.R. Arabnia ed.), Springer, chapter 30, pp.261 - 274. Download pdf file.

19. Curtu R., Shpiro A., Rubin N., Rinzel J. (2008) - Mechanisms for frequency control in neuronal competition models, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst., 7(2), pp. 609 - 649. Download pdf file.

20. Shpiro A., Curtu R., Rinzel J., Rubin N. (2007) - Dynamical characteristics common to neuronal competition models, J. Neurophysiol 97, pp. 462 - 473. Download pdf file.

21. Curtu R. (2007) - Mechanisms for oscillations in a biological competition model, PAMM Proc. Appl. Math. Mech. 7(1), pp. 2030019 - 2030020. Download pdf file.

22. Golomb D., Shedmi A., Curtu R., Ermentrout B. (2006) - Persistent synchronized bursting activity in cortical tissues with low magnesium concentration: a modeling study, J. Neurophysiol 95, pp. 1049 - 1067. Download pdf file.

23. Curtu R. (2005) - Nonhyperbolic singularities in a chemical model, Bulletin of The Transilvania University of Brasov, SERIES III - Mathematics. Informatics. Physics, 12(47), 47 – 54. Download pdf file.

24. Curtu R., Georgescu A. (2005) - The static bifurcation in the Gray-Scott model. Rev. Roumaine Sci. Tech. Sér. Méc. Appl., 50(1-3), 3–13.

25. Osan R., Curtu R., Rubin J., Ermentrout B. (2004) - Multiple-spike waves in a one-dimensional integrate-and-fire neural network, J. Math. Biol. 48, pp. 243-274. Download pdf file.

26. Curtu R., Ermentrout B. (2004) - Pattern formation in a network of excitatory and inhibitory cells with adaptation, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst., 3(3), pp. 191 - 231. Download pdf file.

27. Osan R., Rubin J., Curtu R., Ermentrout B. (2003) - Traveling waves in a one-dimensional integrate-and-fire neural network with finite support connectivity, Neurocomputing 52-54, pp. 869 - 875. Download pdf file.

28. Curtu R., Ermentrout B. (2001) - Oscillations in a refractory neural net, J. Math. Biol. 43, pp. 81 - 100. Download pdf file.

29. Curtu R. (2001) - The static bifurcation diagram for the Gray-Scott model, Intl. J. of Bif. and Chaos 11 (9), pp. 2483 - 2491. Download pdf file.

Books

Curtu R, Tudor H. (2004) - Mathematical Analysis, Transilvania University Press, Romania (276 pp/ in English) (A course of advanced calculus for engineering students).

Curtu R. (2002) - Dynamics and bifurcations for the Gray-Scott model with uncatalyzed conversion, Transilvania University Press, Romania (240 pp/ in Romanian). ISBN 973-635-070-3 (MR1993249; Zbl 1031.37073).

Curtu R. (2000) - Introduction to dynamical systems theory, Infomarket, Romania (132 pp/ in Romanian). ISBN 973-99827-2-7 (A course for undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics).

PhD Dissertation

Curtu R. (2003) - Waves and Oscillations in Model Neuronal Networks, The University of Pittsburgh. Thesis advisor: Bard Ermentrout

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