Publications

Istvan Karsai

list of publications

 

PAPERS:

 

 

Starr C.K. and Karsai I (2012) The geographic pattern of nest height in a neotropical arboreal termite (Isoptera: Nasutitermitinae: Nasutitermes corniger). Insect Soc. (submitted).

Pokhrel L. Karsai I., Laughlin T.F. and Hamed M.K. (2012).  Statistical model predicting dorsal body pigmentation and evaluation of sexual dimorphism in marbled salamanders (Ambystoma opacum). Ethology Ecology and Evolution. (submitted).

Hamann H., Karsai I. and Schmickl T. (2012). Time delay implies cost on task switching: a model to investigate the efficiency of task partitioning. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. (submitted).

Laughlin A.J., Karsai I. and Alsop F.J. III (2012). Habitat partitioning and niche overlap of two forest thrushes in the southern Appalachian spruce-fir forests. Condor. (submitted).

 

Govett A., Miller M.A.III, Moore D., Seier E., Joplin K.H., Godbole A., Knisley J., Helfgott M., Karsai, I. (2012). Adventures in Assessment:  How to Evaluate a New Integrated Quantitative Biology Program,  MAA Notes: Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences: Processes, Models, and Directions. (accepted)

Moore D., Helfgott M., Godbole A., Joplin K.H., Karsai I., Knisley J., Miller H.A. III, and Seier E. (2012), Creating Quantitative Biologists: The Immediate Future of SYMBIOSIS  MAA Notes: Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences: Processes, Models, and Directions. (accepted)

Joplin K.H., Seier E., Godbole A., Helfgott M., Karsai I., Knisley J., Moore D. and Miller H.A. III. (20120). SYMBIOSIS: An Integration of Biology and Statistics at the Freshman Level: walking together instead of on opposite sides of the street. MAA Notes: Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences: Processes, Models, and Directions. (accepted)

 

Karsai I. and Phillips M.D. (2012). Regulation of task differentiation in wasp societies: A bottom-up model of the “common stomach” J. Theor. Biol. 294:98-113. PDF

Knisley J., Karsai I. and Schmickl T. (2011). Compartmental models of migratory dynamics. Math. Model. Nat Phenom.  6: 245-259. PDF

Karsai, I, Knisley D., Knisley J. , Yampolsky L and Godbole A. (2011). Mentoring interdisciplinary undergraduate students via team effort. CBE - Life Sciences Education 10: 250-258. PDF

Karsai I. and Runciman A. (2011). The “common stomach” as information source for the regulation of construction behavior of the swarm. Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems. 18: 13-24. iFirst, 1-12: DOI:10.1080/13873954.2011.601423 PDF

Karsai I. and Schmickl T. (2011). Regulation of task partitioning by a “common stomach”: a model of nest construction in social wasps. Behavior Ecology 22: 819-830. PDF

 Kampis G. and Karsai I. (2011). Breaking waves in population flows. In: Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann. 10^th Europen Conference, ECAL 2009. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence  5777 subseries: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 5778. Part II (eds: G. Kampis, I. Karsai and E. Szathmary). Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp: 102-109. PDF

Karsai I. and Runciman A. (2011). The common stomach as a center of information sharing for nest construction.  In: Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann. 10^th Europen Conference, ECAL 2009. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence  5777 subseries: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 5778. Part II (eds: G. Kampis, I. Karsai and E. Szathmary). Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp: 350-357. PDF

Kampis G., Karsai I and Szathmary E. (2011). Preface.  Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann. 10^th Europen Conference, ECAL 2009. Revised Selected Papers, Part 1. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5777 (eds. R. Goebel, J. Siekmann and W Wahlster). Springer, Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-21282-6. Pp: V-VII. PDF

Karsai I. (2011). Living together: Uniting the how and why. Book review of D.J. Sumpter: Collective Animal behavior. BioScience 61: 639-640. PDF

Karsai I and Kampis G. (2011). Connected fragmented habitats facilitate stable coexistence dynamics. Ecological Modeling 222: 447-455. PDF

Gong F., Karsai I. and Liu Y. (2010). Vitis seeds (Vitaceae) from the late Neogene Gray Fossil Site, northeastern Tennessee, U.S.A. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 162 (1): 71-83. PDF

Schmickl T and Karsai I. (2010). The interplay of sex ratio, male success and density-independent mortality affect population dynamics. Ecological Modeling 221: 1089-1097. PDF

Karsai I. and Kampis G. (2010). The crossroad between biology and mathematics: scientific method as the basics of scientific literacy. BioScience 60: 632-638. PDF

Johnson M, Gilliam T and Karsai I (2009). The effect of infectiousness, duration of sickness and chance of recovery on a population: a simulation study. BIOS 80: 99-104. PDF

Karsai I and Runciman A. (2009). The effectiveness of the “common stomach” in the regulation of behavior of the swarm In Proceedings MATHMOD 09 Vienna Full papers CD volume, 6^th Vienna Conference on Mathematical Modelling. February 11-13 2009, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. ARGESIM report no 34 (eds. I Troch and F. Breitenecker). ISBN 978-3-901608-34-6. ARGESIM Publishing House, Vienna: 851-857. PDF

Karsai I and Knisley J. (2009) The role of institutes in interdisciplinary research and education: An example from quantitative biology. The Journal of College Science Teaching 38: 32-37. PDF

Johnson, D. Levy F., Karsai I and Stroud K. (2006) Turning the Potential Liability of Large Enrollment Laboratory Science Courses into an Asset. The Journal of College Science Teaching 35: 46-51. PDF

Karsai, I., Somogyi K. and Hardy I.C.W. (2006) Body size, host choice and sex allocation in a spider hunting pompilid wasp. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 87: 285-296. PDF

Shanks, N. and Karsai I. (2004). Self-Organization and the Origin of Complexity. In: Why Intelligent Design Fails: A scientific Critique of the New Creationism eds. Young, M and Edis T. Chapter 7: 85-106.  PDF

Karsai I., and Balázsi, G. (2002). Organization of work via a natural substance: regulation of nest construction in social wasps. Journal of Theoretical Biology 218: 549–565. PDF

Karsai I., and Hunt, J. H. (2002).  Food quantity affects traits of offspring in a paper wasp, Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Environmental Entomology 31: 99-106. PDF

Karsai I., and Pénzes, Z. (2000). Optimality of cell arrangement and rules of thumb of cell initiation in Polistes dominulus: a modeling approach. Behavioral Ecology 11: 387-395. PDF

Karsai I., and Wenzel, J. W. (2000). Organization and regulation of nest construction behaviour in Metapolybia wasps. J. Ins. Behav. 13: 111-140. PDF

Karsai I. (1999). Decentralized control of construction behavior in paper wasps: an overview of the stigmergy approach. Artificial Life 5: 117-136. PDF

Karsai I., and Wenzel, J. W. (1998). Productivity, individual-level and colony-level flexibility, and organization of work as consequences of colony size. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 8665-8669. PDF

Karsai I., and Pénzes Z. (1998). Nest shapes in paper wasps: can the variability of forms be deduced from the same construction algorithm?  Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 256: 1261-1268. PDF

Karsai, I. (1997): Brood patterns on the wasp combs: influence of brood to the egg laying and building. Ethology Ecology and Evolution 9: 27-44. PDF

Karsai, I., Pénzes, Z. and Altenburg, K. (1996): Working Automously: Searching and Piling: building compact structures by group of robots. ICMAS'96. Workshop Notes #3. Animal societies as an alternative metaphorical basis for DAI. International Conference on Multiagent Systems 1996. Kyoto, Japan. pp 8.

Karsai, I., Pénzes Z. and Wenzel, J. W. (1996): Dynamics of colony development in Polistes dominulus: a modeling approach. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 39: 97-105. PDF

Karsai, I. and Z. Pénzes (1996): Intraspecific variation of the combs of Polistes dominulus: parameters, maturation, nest size and cell arrangement. Ins. Soc. 43: 277-296. PDF

Karsai, I. and Wenzel, J. W. (1995): Nests built on the dorsum of conspecifics in Polistes: the value of anomalous behavior. J. Anim. Behav. 50: 1429-1431. PDF

Pauk, J., Stefanov, I., Fekete, S., Bögre, L., Karsai, I., Fehér A. and Dudits, D. (1995): Study of different (CaMV35S and mas) promoter activities and risk assessment of field use in transgenic rapeseed plants. Euphytica 85: 411-416. PDF

Karsai, I. and Theraulaz, G. (1995): Nest building in social wasps: postures and constraints. Sociobiology 26: 83-114. PDF

Karsai, I. (1995). Planning of supra-individual biology research. In: The fundamentals of Project Planning and Statistics in Supra-individual Biology.(Ed. I. Precsenyi)  KLTE Univ. Press (in Hungarian) (2 editions), pp. 4-12.

Karsai, I. (1995).How to publish our scientific results? In: The fundamentals of Project Planning and Statistics in Supra-individual Biology.(Ed. I. Precsenyi) KLTE Univ. Press (in Hungarian) (2 editions), pp. 90-114..

Székely, T. Karsai, I. and Williams, T. D. (1994): Determination of clutch-size in Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus. IBIS 136: 341-348. PDF

Somogyi, K. and Karsai, I. (1994): Verhaltensforschung bei den Hymenopteren heute - Ein Bericht vom 23. Internationalen Ethologischen Kongress. Bembix 2: 35-37.

Karsai, I., Barta, Z. and Szilágyi, G. (1994): Modelling of habitat rearrangement of carabid beetles. In: Carabid beetles: Ecology and Evolution (Eds. K. Desender et al.) pp. 153-156. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Csüllög, K. and Karsai, I. (1994): (Special entrance against parasitoids). Élet és Tudomány 48: 1509-1510. (in Hungarian).

Székely, T. Karsai, I. and Kovács, S. (1993): Availability of Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus prey on a Central Hungarian grassland. Ornis Hungarica 3: 41-48. PDF

Pénzes, Z. and Karsai, I. (1993): Round shape combs produced by stigmergic script in social wasps. Proceeding Manuscript of European Conference of Artificial Life: 896-905. PDF

Karsai, I. and Pénzes, Z.  (1993): Comb building in social wasps: self-organization and stigmergic script. J. Theor. Biol. 161: 505-525. PDF

Somogyi, K. and Karsai, I. (1993): (Pompilids in the Hungarian "Pusta". Élet és Tudomány 22: 683-684. (in Hungarian).

Karsai, I. and Vajda, Z. (1992): Characteristic of spiders captured by Anoplius viaticus L. paganus Dahlb. Proceedings of Fourth European Entomological Conference and the XIII. Internationale Symposium für die Entomofaunistik Mitteleuropas (Gödöllõ, 1991): 504-509.

Karsai, I. (1992): (Strong hierarchy - primitive society: social organization in paper wasps). Élet és Tudomány 21: 643-645 (in Hungarian).

Karsai, I. and Székely, T. (1992): (The Necker-cube of the Man). Book review: T. Bereckei: Genes and Culture. Gondolat Press. Tudomány April (Hungarian edition of Scientific American): p. 25-27 (in Hungarian).

Székely, T. and Karsai, I. (1992): (About the School Books: Behaviour Ecology in the high education: The limits of the development). Tudomány January (Hungarian edition of Scientific American): p. 43. (in Hungarian).

Györffy, G. and Karsai, I. (1991): Estimation of spatio- temporal rearrangement in a patchy habitat and its application to some Auchenorrhyncha populations. J. Anim. Ecol. 60: 843-855. PDF

Karsai, I. (1991): (Concepts in ecology). Élet és Tudomány 52: 1652 (in Hungarian).

Karsai, I. (1991): (Social life of the gall aphids). Élet és Tudomány 51: 1616-1618 (in Hungarian).

Karsai, I. (1991): (The chess-board of the living world: strategies in white and black). Élet és Tudomány 42: 1318-1319 (in Hungarian).

Preiszner, J. and Karsai, I. (1990): Diel activity patterns of ground beetles on a sandy grassland. The role of ground beetles in ecological and environmental studies, (Ed. N.E. Stork) pp. 397-401. Intercept, Andover.  PDF

Karsai, I. (1989): Factors affecting diurnal activities of solitary wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae and Pompilidae). Entomol. Gener. 14: 223-232. PDF

Karsai, I. (1989): ("The selfish herd"). Élet és Tudomány 44: 1394-1395 (in Hungarian).

Preiszner, J. and Karsai, I. (1988): Carabid fauna of a sandy grassland. Acta Biol. Szeged. 34: 107-111. PDF

Karsai, I. (1988): Ecofaunistical investigation of sphecoid fauna on a sandy grassland. Acta Biol. Szeged. 34: 97-106. PDF

 

PUBLISHED EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS:

 

Karsai, I., Palmer, K. and Salinas, R.  (2012). Inter-specific competition. Shodor Fundation (a National Resource for Computational Science Education) (submitted).

Karsai, I., Palmer, K. and Salinas, R.  (2012). Predation. Shodor Fundation (a National Resource for Computational Science Education) (submitted).

Karsai, I., Palmer, K. and Salinas, R.  (2012). Coexistence and extinction of populations: urn model. Shodor Fundation (a National Resource for Computational Science Education) (submitted).

 

PUBLISHED SOFTWARE:

 

Kampis, G. and Karsai, I. (2010). Habitat Fragmentation. NetLogo User Community Models. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/community/HabitatFragmentation .

 Zsíros, V. and Karsai, I. (1997). Death and Life, Randomity and Rule: Modeling some  Fundamental Biological Mechanisms. Software package. http://ramet.elte.hu/~scientia/ and http://faculty.etsu.edu/karsai/synbiol4e.zip

 

BOOKS:

 

Zsíros, V. and Karsai, I. (1997). Death and Life, Randomity and Rule: Modeling some  Fundamental Biological Mechanisms. Synbiologia Hungaria 3, Scientia, Budapest. (in Hungarian).

Karsai, I. (1989). Entry references on Ethology for Magyar Nagylexikon (a new modern scientific lexicon published by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) (last issues in press, in Hungarian).

 

FILM:

 

Dudits, D., Fehér, A., Pauk, J., Mórocz, S., Horváth, S., Polgár, Zs., Mándi, L., Nagy, Gy., Kasza, A. and Karsai, I. (1995). Risk analysis of cultivation of transgenic plants. Directed by D. Dudits. The film on the project supported by the National Committee for Technical Development (1992-1994): "Risk analysis of environmental and cultivation effects using genetically manipulated plants in agriculture."

 

INVITED LECTURES:

 

- 1999. Snow Entomology Graduate Student Organization Guest Speaker, University of Kansas

- 2000. Dept. Biology, University College London Guest Speaker

- 2001. Dept. Biol. Sci., East Tennessee S. Univ, Guest Speaker

- 2001. Dept. Biology, Simon Fraser University Guest Speaker

- 2001. Dept. Biology, Simon Fraser University Guest Speaker

- 2002. Dept. Mathematics, ETSU, Seminar

- 2005.Dept Env. System Sciences, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria

- 2005.Dept. Zool., Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria

- 2006. Dept. Biological Sciences, ETSU, seminar.

- 2006. VA campus interdepartmental, ETSU workshop lecture

- 2006. Dept. Physics and Astronomy & Geology ETSU, seminar

- 2008. Integrating Cooperation Research across Europe workshop, lecture

- 2008. International Workshop on Cognitive Robotics, Budapest, Hungary.

- 2009. Dept. Life Sci. U.W.I. St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago, lecture

 

 

ABSTRACTS:

 

Montano E. and Karsai I. (2012). A 3D agent based model of competitive interactions. ETSU Appalachian Student research Forum. Johnson City, TN. April 5, 2012. Abstract p. 22.

Kusi J. and Karsai I. (2012). Variations in plasticity of leaf morphology of three Quercus species in response to environmental factors. ETSU Appalachian Student research Forum. Johnson City, TN. April 5, 2012. Abstract p. 49.

Guo X and Karsai I. (2012). A simple dynamical model of the ant colony. ETSU Appalachian Student research Forum. Johnson City, TN. April 5, 2012. Abstract p. 54.

Ahmad I. and Karsai I. (2012). Infectious disease: an agent based simulation. ETSU Boland Undergraduate Research Symposium, Johnson City, TN. April 3, 2012. Abstract p. 1.

Agrawal D. and Karsai I. (2012). Modeling interactions in social insects. ETSU Boland Undergraduate Research Symposium, Johnson City, TN. April 3, 2012. Abstract p. 1.

Roland B and Karsai I. (2011).  Forest ecosystem dynamics affected by fires. Eighth Annual Meeting of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society 2011, College Station TX April 1-2, 2011, Abstract p. 69.

Roland B and Karsai I. (2011). Fire effects on forest ecosystem dynamics. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p. 160.

Roland B and Karsai I. (2011).  The Direct and Indirect Effects of Fires on Forest Ecosystems. Third Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution 2011, Groningen, Netherlands August 17-19, 2011, Abstract p. 50.

Starr C.K and Karsai I. (2011).  The geographic pattern of nest height in a neotropical arboreal termite (Isoptera: Nasutitermitinae). International Union for the study of social insects Bolivarian section. Eight Biennial General Meeting. St. Augstine, Trinidad and Tobago 1-4 August. Living World (Port of Spain) 2011 (Supplement no. 2):26

Roland B and Karsai I. (2011).  Forest ecosystem dynamics affected by fires. Eighth Annual Meeting of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society 2011, College Station TX April 1-2, 2011, Abstract p. 69.

Montano E. and Karsai I. (2011). Competition in a simple pond: an agent based approach. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p. 15.

Roland B and Karsai I. (2011). Fire effects on forest ecosystem dynamics. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p. 160.

Adoe F., Karsai I., and Wallace C. (2011). Low complexity algorithms generate complex patterns. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p. 32.

 Knisley J., Karsai I., Cintron-Arias A., Joyner M., Yampolsky L. and Godbole A. (2011). Talent Expansion in Quantitative Biology: Lessons learned and looking toward the future. STEP 2011: Institutional Culture, Institutional Change & Institutionalizations. STEP 2011 Grantees Meeting, Washington D.C. Abstract p.91.

Karsai I. and Runciman A. (2010). The common stomach as a center of information sharing for nest construction in social wasps. IUSSI 2010 XVI Congress in Copenhagen Denmark. Symposium 20: Insect societies as complex systems. Abstracts p 276.

Montano E. and Karsai I. (2010). Population growth strategies as a response to crowding. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p.19.

Roland B and Karsai I. (2010). The effect of fire to ecosystem dynamics. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p.20.

Runciman A. and Karsai I. (2010). Adaptive self-organized task allocation in wasp colonies. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p.21-22.

Adoe F., Karsai I., and Wallace C. (2010). Generating compact wasp nest structures via minimal complexity algorithms. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p.42.

Borger K. and Karsai I. (2010). Effects of habitat change on Plethodon welleri in the southern Appalachian mountains. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p.43-44.

Laughlin A.J., Alsop F.J, Karsai I., and Laughlin T. (2010). Hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus) and veery (C. fuscescens) habitat associations in southern Appalachian high-elevation forests. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p.46.

Karsai I. and Runciman A. (2009). The common stomach as a center of information sharing for nest construction. The 10^th European Conference on Artificial Life. Program and Abstracts in Workshop supplement: Agent connectivity: the role of cooperation in the regulation of the behavior of animals and robots. Budapest, Hungary, 2009 September 13-16.

Gong, F., Karsai I. and. Liu Y.S. (2009). Grape seeds (Vitis) from the late Neogene Gray Fossil Site, northeast Tennessee. Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of America. July 25-29, 2009. Snowbird, Utah.

Pokhrel L., Karsai KI. and Laughlin T. (2009). Quantitative assessment of sexual dimorphism in marbled salamander Ambystoma opacum. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p.53.

Borger K. and Karsai I. (2009). Effects of climate change on Pletodon wellerii in southern Appalachian mountain range. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p.43.

Manning C. and Karsai I. (2009). Exploitation of food sources by ant colonies: an agent based simulation. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p.19.

Smith E. and Karsai I. (2009). System dynamics analysis of predator-prey relationship in a fragmented habitat. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p.21.

Adoe F., Karsai I. and Wallace C. (2009). Computer simulation of wasps, nest building process. Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN. Abstract p.43.

Gong, F., Karsai I. and. Liu Y.S. (2009). Grape seeds (Vitis) from the late Neogene Gray Fossil site, Northeast Tennessee. 26^th Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium, Johnson City TN March 13-15, 2009. Abstracts p.5.

Karsai I. and Runciman A (2009). The effectiveness of the “common stomach” in the regulation of behavior of the swarm. Proceedings MATHMOD 09 Vienna. 6^th Vienna Conference on Mathematical Modeling. February 11-13 2009, Vienna, Austria. Abstract volume p 113.

Yampolsky L., Karsai I., Seier E., Joplin J.H., Catron L. and Warner B. (2008) Teaching math to biologists and biology to mathematicians: When needed and as much as needed. Society for mathematical Biology Conference. Toronto July 30-August 2. Abstracts 1.6.

Karsai I., Kampis G., Johnson M. and Gilliam T. (2008) The importance of simulation in freshman education. Society for mathematical Biology Conference. Toronto July 30-August 2. Abstracts 1.6.

Karsai I. (2008) Cooperation and conflict in insect societies: Why and how organization happen? “Conflict and Cooperation in Animal Societies”. INCORE workshop, Debrecen Hungary, January 17-20. P. 3.

Khambaty M., Karsai I. and Kampis G. (2007). Coexistence dynamics in spatially heterogeneous predator prey systems under various propagation constraints. TIMBER 2007, Boone NC November 2-3. Abstracts p 6.

 Pokhrel, L.R., Karsai I., Laughlin T.and Meredith M.E. (2007). Mapping the skin pattern of spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum. TIMBER 2007, Boone NC November 2-3. Abstracts p 6.

Pokhrel, L.R., Karsai I., Meredith M.E. and Hamed K.M. (2007). Mapping the skin pattern of spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum. Tennessee Herpetological Society Conference Gray TN, 2007 Abstracts p7.

Karsai I. and Knisley J. (2007). Integrating Mathematics and Biology Through Storytelling: The Salmon Example. MathFest 2007: The Annual Summer Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, San Jose CA. Abstracts published by MAA p. 19.

Knisley J. and Karsai I. (2007). Integrating Mathematics and Biology Through Storytelling: Some insights into the Symbiosis project. MathFest 2007: The Annual Summer Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, San Jose CA. Abstracts published by MAA p. 19.

Karsai I. and Knisley J. (2007). Building an Interdisciplinary Institute: The Institute for Quantitative Biology at ETSU. Joint Mathematics Meeting 2007 New Orleans. Abstracts p. 290.

Knisley J. and Karsai I. (2007). Symbiosis: Integrating Mathematics and Statistics with an Introductory Biology Sequence. Joint Mathematics Meeting 2007 New Orleans. Abstracts p. 287.

Karsai I., Godbole A., Helfgott M., Joplin J.H., Knisley J., Miller H.A. III., Moore D. and Seier E. (2006). “SYMBIOSIS:  An introductory integrated mathematics and biology curriculum for the 21st century”. TIMBER 2006 Abstract p. 2.

Karsai I., Balazsi G., Phillips, M, and Knisley J. (2006).  Division of Labor in Wasp Societies: the emergence of organization. XVth Congress of IUSSI, Symposium 15: Collective and Individual Intelligence. XVth IUSSI Proceedings p.88

Phillips, M., Karsai I., and Knisley J. (2006).  Modeling Self-Organization in Social Wasps. Joint Meeting of the Southeastern Section MAA and SIAM-SEAS (Auburn, AL). Abstracts p. 32.

Paquette C., Joplin K., Karsai I. and Moore D. (2005) Spatial distribution patterns of male and female flesh flies, Sarcophaga crassipalpis.  Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting

Karsai I., Balazsi G., Phillips, M, and Knisley J. (2005).  Division of Labor in Insect Societies: Modeling organization of the colony. Timber conference 2005. Abstract p.3.

Phillips, M., Karsai I., and Knisley J. (2005).  Methods of modeling Division of Labor in Social Wasp Colonies. Timber conference 2005. Abstract p.3.

Phillips, M., Karsai I., and Knisley J. (2005).  "Modeling Division of Labor: Top-down versus Bottom-up.”  2005 Fall Meeting of the Southeast Section American Mathematical Society (Johnson City, Tennessee).  Abstracts from the 1010th AMS Meeting, pg. 46.

Phillips, M., Karsai I., and Knisley J. (2005).  Division of Labor in Social Wasp Colonies: An Agent-Based Approach. 29th Annual SIAM-SEAS 2005 meeting. (Charleston, USA). Abstracts from SIAM-SEAS 2005 pg 47.

Phillips, M., Karsai I., and Knisley J. (2005).  Division of Labor in Social Wasp Colonies: An Agent-Based Approach. Poster presented to the 2005 Appalachian Student Research Forum (Johnson City, TN, USA).  2005 Abstracts pg. 14. First prize winner.

Knisley J., Karsai I. and Phillips, M., (2005).  "An Agent-Based Model of Nest Construction in Social Wasps." Computational Applications and Cyber-Infrastructure Double-Tree Hotel and Conference Center, Murfreesboro, TN Sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University, Jan 19-20, 2005 Organized by the Tennessee Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, George Garrison, Chair.

Phillips, M., Karsai I., and Knisley J. (2005).  "An Agent-Based Model of Nest Construction in Social Wasps." Preliminary Report.  MAA/AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings. (Atlanta, USA).  Abstracts of Papers Presented to the American Mathematical Society, pg. 191.

Karsai I., Balazsi G., and Wenzel J.W. (2003): Organization of nest construction via a natural substance: models and field studies. 2^nd International Workshop on the Mathematics and Algorithms of Social Insects. Atlanta GA Dec 15-17. Proceedings p. 182.

Moore, D., Miller H.AIII. and I Karsai. (2003): The Tongue-Mapping Experiment: Incorporating Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum. 17^th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, The University of Utah, March 13-15 Abstracts: p.466.

Miller, H.A. III, Moore, D. and Karsai I. (2003): Building a sense of scientific community using data sharing and analysis: the tongue sensory experiment. 17^th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, The University of Utah, March 13-15 Abstracts: p.466

Karsai, I. and Hunt J. H. (2000): Does eating more make you tough? The effect of nutrition on the development of social wasps. XXI-International Congress of Entomology, Brazil. Abstract book II. p.885.

Wenzel, J. W. and Karsai I. (1998): Behavior drives morphological homoplasy in social wasps. APS/ESA Joint Annual Meeting. Science in Transition. (Las Vegas, USA).

Hunt J. H. and Karsai  I. (1998): Nourisment affects colony-level properties in the paper wasp Polistes metricus Say. APS/ESA Joint Annual Meeting. Science in Transition. (Las Vegas, USA).

Karsai I., and Wenzel J. W.  (1998): Behavioral specialization in social wasps (Vespidae). APS/ESA Joint Annual Meeting. Science in Transition. (Las Vegas, USA).

Karsai I., and Wenzel J. W.  (1997): Behavioral casts in the swarm foundling Metapolybia wasps. Midwest Regional Animal Behavior Society Conference (Columbus, USA).

Karsai I., Pénzes Z. and Theraulaz, G. (1995): How do wasps build their nests: Self-organization, spatial constraints and local information? 24th International Ethological Conference (Honolulu).

Somogyi, K. and Karsai, I. (1994): Kleine Spinne-mannlich Wespe, Grosse Spinne-weibliche Wespe? Beitr. I. Hymednopterologen-Tagung in Stuttgart. p. 27.

Somogyi, K. and Karsai, I. (1994): (Small wasp - small spider, large waps - large spider?) III Hungarian Ecological Congress. (in Hungarian).

Csüllög, K. and Karsai, I. (1994): Distribution of Arthropods along micro-scale transect in a dry grassland. V European Congress of Entomology. Abstracts No. 186.

Csüllög, K. and Karsai, I. (1994): Arthropod guild structure of a sandy grassland. INTECOL. Proceedings of VI International Congress of Ecology. Progress to meet the Challange of Environmental Change p. 291.

Zsiros, V. and Karsai, I. (1994): Strategies in a cellular automata framework: some basic phenomena. V. International Behavioral Ecology Congress Abstracts No. 224.

Somogyi, K. and Karsai, I. (1994): Host chioce and sex allocation of a pompilid wasp. V. International Behavioral Ecology Congress Abstracts No. 184.

Zsiros, V. and Karsai, I. (1994): Ecological systems in a cellular automata framework: some basic phenomena. INTECOL. Proceedings of VI International Congress of Ecology. Progress to meet the Challange of Environmental Change p.471.

Karsai, I., Chrétien, L. and Deneubourg, J., L. (1994): How do ants establish a "cemetry"? 12th Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects IUSSI. (Paris, Sorbonne) Abstracts "Les Insectes Sociaux" p. 297.

Karsai, I. and Pénzes, Z. (1994): Round combs in wasps: Are the wasps aware of what they build? 12th Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects IUSSI. Invited oral contribution for the symposium: Insect Colonies: Adaptive Design and Self-Organization. (Paris, Sorbonne) Abstracts "Les Insectes Sociaux" p. 230.

Karsai, I. and Pénzes, Z. (1993): Can the wasps build a regular nest without global information? 23rd International Ethological Conference (Torremolinos) Abstracts p. 303.

Somogyi, K., Karsai, I. and Vajda, Z. (1993): Host choice of Anoplius viaticus paganus 23rd International Ethological Conference (Torremolinos) Abstracts p. 210.

Pénzes, Z. and Karsai, I. (1992): (Isotropy from strong randomity: the regularity of wasp nest.) 6th Hungarian Ethological Congress (Visegrád) Abstracts pp. 44. (in Hungarian). 44.o.

Karsai, I. and Pénzes, Z.  (1992): (Appearance of complex structure trough simple rules and local information: a self-organization model). 6th Hungarian Ethological Congress (Visegrád) Abstracts pp. 35. (in Hungarian).

Karsai, I. and Somogyi, K. (1992): (Host range and life history of Batazonellus lacerticida Pall., a parazitoid wasp.). 6th Hungarian Ethological Congress (Visegrád) Abstracts pp. 34. (in Hungarian).

Karsai, I. and Pénzes, Z. (1992): Collective comb building by the wasp swarm. The 4th International Behavioral Ecology Congress (Princeton, 17-22 Aug.), Abstracts T58b.

Karsai, I., Szilágyi G. and Barta, Z. (1992): Modelig of habitat rearrangements of carabid beetles. 8th European Carabidologists` Meeting, 2nd International Symposium of Carabidology (Louvain-la Neuve, 1-4 Sept.).

Karsai, I. and Pénzes, Z.  (1992): Collective comb building by the wasp swarm. The 4th International Behavioral Ecology Congress (Princeton, 17-22 Aug.), Abstracts T58b.

Karsai, I. (1991): Sphecid wasps of a Hungarian grassland. Second quadrennial Meeting of International  Society of Hymenopterists (Sheffield), Abstracts p. 25.

Karsai, I. (1991): Role of abiotic factors of two solitary wasps. Second Quadrennial Meeting of International  Society of Hymenopterists (Sheffield), Abstracts p. 24.

Karsai, I. and Vajda, Z. (1990): Selection of spider prey by Anoplius viaticus paganus (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Third International Conference of Behavioural Ecology (Uppsala) Abstracts No. 96.

Gallé, L., Györffy, G., Hornung, E., Körmöczy, L. Szônyi, G., Kerekes, J. and Karsai, I. (1989): Response of different ecological communities to experimental perturbations in a sandy grassland. 5th European Ecology Symposium (Sienna), Abstracts p. 140.

Karsai, I. and Kerekes, J. (1989): Prey selection of  Anoplius viaticus paganus (Dahlbom, 1843) pompilid wasp based on the characteristics of successfully hunted spiders. 21st International Ethological Conference (Utrecht) Abstracts p. 92.

Györffy, G. and Karsai, I. (1989): (A multivariate analysis based estimation of microhabitat-shift and its background on phytophagous insects populations.) Competition for the County Academy Grant, Abstracts p. 140 (in Hungarian) .

Karsai, I. (1988): (Nest-pattern-analysis of a sphecoid population on a sandy grassland.). 1st Hungarian Ecological Congress, Abstracts p. 89. (in Hungarian).

Hornung, E., Gallé, L., Györffy, G., Kerekes, J., Körmöczi, L., Szönyi, G. and Karsai, I. (1988): (Heteromorphy sensitivity of different communities on a sandy grassland.). 1st Hungarian Ecological Congress, Abstracts p. 75. (in Hungarian).

 

LECTURES AND CONTRIBUTED PAPERS WITHOUT ABSTRACT:

 

Roland B and Karsai I. (2011). Impact of Fires on Forest Ecosystem Dynamics: A Simulation Study. Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, Johnson City, TN.

Ahmad I. and Karsai I. (2011). Dynamics of infectious disease: an agent based simulation. Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, Johnson City, TN.

Roland B and Karsai I. (2010). Fire effects on forest habitats: An individual based model. ETSU TEQB Undergraduate Student Research Symposium. Pigeon Forge TN October 29-30, 2010.

Karsai I. (2010). Modeling Biological Complexity. Departments of Biological, Health and Geo- Sciences seminar. January 27.

Karsai I. (2009). Self-organization in wasp societies: How can simple minds produce adaptive patterns? Dept. Life Sci. U.W.I. St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago June 18.

Pokhrel L.R., Karsai I. and Laughlin T.F. (2009). Quantitative assessment of sexual dimorphism in marbled salamander Ambystoma opacum. SE/NCPARC 2009, Montreat NC February 19-22.

Runciman  A., Suttmiller A. and Karsai I. (2009). Simulating the common stomach. Undergraduate Student Research Symposium Jay’s Symposium, Johnson City, TN, April 7.

Rokhrel L.R., Karsai I., Laughlin T. and Pyles R. (2008). Mapping the skin pattern of spotted salamanders, Ambystoma maculatum. Appalachian Student Research Forum. Johnson City TN.

Johnson M., Gilliam T.  and Karsai I. (2008). Modeling microparasitic diseases. Undergraduate Student Research Symposium. Johnson City TN.

Javer A., Karsai I. and Harker D. (2008): An interdisciplinary study of the species: An individual’s view. Undergraduate Student Research Symposium. Johnson City TN.

Godbole A., Govett A., Helfgott M., Joplin K.H., Karsai I., Knisley J., McDonald K., Miller H.A.III, Moore D., Peyton J., Reynolds S., and Seier E. (2007). SYMBIOSIS: An Introductory Integrated Mathematics and Biology Curriculum. The Inaugural Math and Science Symposium (MaS²)  An Innovative Symposium for Connecting Math and Science Projects and Evaluations” 14-16 October 2007 Pellissippi State Technical Community College Knoxville, TN

Godbole A., Govett A., Helfgott M., Joplin K.H., Karsai I., Knisley J., McDonald K., Miller H.A.III, Moore D., Peyton J., Reynolds S., and Seier E. (2007). SYMBIOSIS: An Introductory Integrated Mathematics and Biology Curriculum. Howard Hughes Quantitative Biology Workshop. (July 10-20). Poster session

Karsai, I. 2006.Agent based modeling and chaos analyses. Biomedical Science graduate program workshop: Mathematical and computational Methods: Applications to Biomedical Research. ETSU VA

Karsai, I. 2005. Nest construction in social wasps. Dept. Env. System Sciences, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria

Karsai, I. 2005. Division of labor and nest construction in insect societies. Dept. Zool., Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria

Karsai, I. (2004): Emergent patterns in Insect Societies.  Invited speaker at Dept. History and Philosophy of Science at the Eotvos University (June 4).

Hunt, J. H. and Karsai, I. (2000): Nourishment as an important factor in social evolution. Evolution 2000 (joint meeting of SSE, SSB, ATB and ASN). Bloomington Indiana, USA (June 23-27).

Székely, T., Williams, T. D. and Karsai, I. (1994): Determination of clutch-size in Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus. International Ornitological Congress, Vienna.

Székely, T., Karsai, I. and Williams, T. D. (1994): Determination of clutch-size in Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus. BES Winter Meeting. Stirling, UK. (January 5-7).

Somogyi, K., Karsai, I. and Vajda, Z. (1994): Size age sex and life history distribution of spiders in the field and of captured by a pompilid wasp. INTECOL. Proceedings of VI International Congress of Ecology. Progress to meet the Challange of Environmental Change p. 283.

Deneubourg, J. L., Chrétien, L., Clip, P., Goss, S., Karsai, I., Lavendy, P., Nour, Y., Patinel, J., Rasse, P., Saffre, F., Van Damme, T., Vanroy R., and Vercauteren, M. (1994): (Chemical communication and structures of social arthropod) Workshop on Chemistry (ULB 18. March). Poster of the Center of Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems 31: (Signals, Communication and Biological structures). (In French).

Karsai, I. (1990): Two eco-ethological approach of life history of solitary wasps. C.N.R.S. UPR 38, (Marseille, France).

Karsai, I. (1989): (Prey selection of a pompilid wasp). Hungarian Congress of Ethology 1989 (Visegrád).