JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus
Other Departments: Physics
Physics Dept., Remembering Rainer Sachs
RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: (Through 1977:) Cosmology, gravitational waves, general relativity. (Since 1980:) Mathematical biology, radiation damage to DNA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Goldberg, J. N. and Sachs, R. K. (2009). Republication of: a theorem on Petrov types [refcno 0156679]. Gen. Relativity Gravitation 41 No.2, 433-444. [MR(link is external)] [GS?(link is external)]
- Sachs, R. K. and Wolfe, A. M. (2007). Republication of: ''Perturbations of a cosmological model and angular variations of the microwave background'' [Astrophys. J. 147 (1967), 73--90]. Gen. Relativity Gravitation 39 No.11, 1929-1961. Edited and with commentary by George Ellis and with notes on Sachs-Wolfe integration by Jürgen Ehlers, With brief autobiographies by Sachs and Wolfe. [MR(link is external)] [GS?(link is external)]
- Levy, Dan and Reeder, Christopher and Loucas, Bradford and Hlatky, Lynn and Chen, Allen and Cornforth, Michael and Sachs, Rainer (2007). Interpreting chromosome aberration spectra. J. Comput. Biol. 14 No.2, 144-155 (electronic). [MR(link is external)] [GS?(link is external)]
- Ponomarev, A. L. and Sachs, R. K. (2001). Radiation breakage of DNA: a model based on random-walk chromatin structure. J. Math. Biol. 43 No.4, 356-376. [MR(link is external)] [GS?(link is external)]
- Sachs, R. K. and Hlatky, L. R. and Hahnfeldt, P. (2001). Simple ODE models of tumor growth and anti-angiogenic or radiation treatment. Math. Comput. Modelling 33 No.12-13, 1297-1305. [MR(link is external)] [GS?(link is external)]