Modeling the Links Between the Chemical, Electrical and Contractile Calcium Dynamics in a Heart Cell

These results were obtained as part of the REU Site: Interdisciplinary Program in High Performance Computing (hpcreu.umbc.edu) in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), in Summer 2016. This program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Department of Defense (DOD), with additional support from UMBC, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting (CIRC), and the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF). HPCF is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through the MRI program (grant nos. CNS{0821258 and CNS (1228778) and the SCREMS program (grant no. DMS{0821311), with additional substantial support from UMBC. Co-author Uchenna Osia was supported in part by the UMBC National Security Agency (NSA) Scholars Program through a contract with the NSA. Graduate assistant Jonathan Graf was supported by UMBC.