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Timothy P. Killingback

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Mathematical Physics
Edinburgh University (Scotland)

Contact Information:

Office: Wheatley 3-154-25
Phone: (617) 287-6460
Email: timothy.killingback

Spring 2024 Office Hours:

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Professional Interests: Mathematical biology, evolutionary dynamics, dynamical systems, and game theory.

Recent Publications:

2020 [MR4196262] Evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas with assortative interactions . Games 11 (2020), no. 4, Paper No. 41, 31 pp. --- Iyer, Swami ; Killingback, Timothy
2017 [PMID28575125] Emergence of local synchronization in neuronal networks with adaptive couplings. . PLoS One. 2017 Jun 2;12(6):e0178975. --- Chakravartula S, Indic P, Sundaram B, Killingback T.
2016 [PMID26928428] Evolution of Cooperation in Social Dilemmas on Complex Networks . PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 Feb 29;12(2):e1004779. --- Iyer S, Killingback T.
[MR3481046] Evolutionary dynamics of a smoothed war of attrition game . J. Theoret. Biol. 396 (2016), 25--41. --- Iyer, Swami ; Killingback, Timothy
2015 [PMID26064611] The importance of delineating networks by activity type in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Cedar Key, Florida . R Soc Open Sci. 2015 Mar 11;2(3):140263. --- Gazda S, Iyer S, Killingback T, Connor R, Brault S.
2014 [PMID25375465] Evolutionary dynamics of the traveler's dilemma and minimum-effort coordination games on complex networks . Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2014 Oct;90(4):042134. --- Iyer S, Killingback T.
[PMID24709851] An application of evolutionary game theory to social dilemmas: the traveler's dilemma and the minimum effort coordination game . PLoS One. 2014 Apr 7;9(4):e93988. --- Iyer S, Reyes J, Killingback T.
2013 [PMID23565156] Attack robustness and centrality of complex networks . PLoS One. 2013;8(4):e59613. --- Iyer S, Killingback T, Sundaram B, Wang Z.
[MR3118523] A comment on "Towards a rigorous framework for studying 2-player continuous games'' by Shade T. Shutters, Journal of Theoretical Biology 321, 40–43, 2013 . J. Theoret. Biol. 336 (2013), 240--241. --- Doebeli, Michael ; Hauert, Christoph ; Killingback, Timothy
[PMID23474219] Spatial heterogeneity promotes coexistence of rock-paper-scissors metacommunities . Theor Popul Biol. 2013 Jun;86:1-11. --- Schreiber SJ, Killingback TP.
[PMID23496586] Competitively coupled maps and spatial pattern formation . Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2013 Feb;87(2):022902. --- Killingback T, Loftus G, Sundaram B.
2010 [MR2668435] A statistical construction of power-law networks . Int. J. Parallel Emergent Distrib. Syst. 25 (2010), no. 3, 223--235. --- Ghadge, Shilpa ; Killingback, Timothy ; Sundaram, Bala ; Tran, Duc A.
2006 [MR2266747] Scale-free extinction dynamics in spatially structured host-parasitoid systems . J. Theoret. Biol. 241 (2006), no. 4, 745--750. --- Killingback, Timothy ; Blok, Hendrik J. ; Doebeli, Michael
[PMID16777741] Evolution in group-structured populations can resolve the tragedy of the commons . Proc Biol Sci. 2006 Jun 22;273(1593):1477-81. --- Killingback T, Bieri J, Flatt T.
2005 [PMID15619362] Spatial models of virus-immune dynamics . J Theor Biol. 2005 Mar 21;233(2):221-36. --- Funk GA, Jansen VA, Bonhoeffer S, Killingback T.
[PMID16024372] Evolution of cooperation by generalized reciprocity . Proc Biol Sci. 2005 Jun 7;272(1568):1115-20. --- Pfeiffer T, Rutte C, Killingback T, Taborsky M, Bonhoeffer S.
[MR2127680] Spatial models of virus-immune dynamics . J. Theoret. Biol. 233 (2005), no. 2, 221--236. --- Funk, Georg A. ; Jansen, Vincent A. A. ; Bonhoeffer, Sebastian ; Killingback, Timothy
2004 [MR2107552] Effects of neighbourhood size and connectivity on the spatial continuous prisoner's dilemma . J. Theoret. Biol. 231 (2004), no. 1, 97--106. --- Ifti, Margarita ; Killingback, Timothy ; Doebeli, Michael
[PMID15514155] The evolutionary origin of cooperators and defectors . Science. 2004 Oct 29;306(5697):859-62. --- Doebeli M, Hauert C, Killingback T.
2003 [PMID14630478] Metapopulation dynamics with quasi-local competition . Theor Popul Biol. 2003 Dec;64(4):397-416. --- Doebeli M, Killingback T.
2002 [PMID18707520] The continuous prisoner's dilemma and the evolution of cooperation through reciprocal altruism with variable investment . Am Nat. 2002 Oct;160(4):421-38. --- Killingback T, Doebeli M.
2001 [PMID11522198] Spatial Ultimatum Games, collaborations and the evolution of fairness . Proc Biol Sci. 2001 Sep 7;268(1478):1797-801. --- Killingback T, Studer E.
1999 [PMID10525399] Evolution of cooperation in spatially structured populations . J Theor Biol. 1999 Oct 21;200(4):405-17. --- Brauchli K, Killingback T, Doebeli M.
[PMID10518320] Variable investment, the Continuous Prisoner's Dilemma, and the origin of cooperation . Proc Biol Sci. 1999 Sep 7;266(1430):1723-8. --- Killingback T, Doebeli M, Knowlton N.
[PMID10448852] 'Raise the stakes' evolves into a defector . Nature. 1999 Aug 5;400(6744):518. --- Killingback T, Doebeli M.
1998 [PMID9631572] Self-organized criticality in spatial evolutionary game theory . J Theor Biol. 1998 Apr 7;191(3):335-40. --- Killingback T, Doebeli M.
1992 [MR1155281] Quantization of SL(2,R) Chern-Simons theory . Comm. Math. Phys. 145 (1992), no. 1, 1--16. --- Killingback, T. P.
1991 [MR1109871] Two-dimensional topological gravity and intersection theory on the moduli space of holomorphic bundles . Phys. Lett. B 260 (1991), no. 3-4, 303--310. --- Killingback, T. P.
[MR1095967] Two-dimensional topological gravity, topological matter and intersection theory on moduli space . Phys. Lett. B 255 (1991), no. 4, 513--520. --- Killingback, T. P.
1990 [MR1087600] Chern-Simons theory for compact nonsemisimple Lie groups . Classical Quantum Gravity 7 (1990), no. 12, 2179--2193. --- Killingback, T. P.
1989 [MR1000539] Quantum Yang-Mills theory on Riemann surfaces and conformal field theory . Phys. Lett. B 223 (1989), no. 3-4, 357--364. --- Killingback, T. P.
[MR0990225] Quantum Chern-Simons theory . Phys. Lett. B 219 (1989), no. 4, 448--456. --- Killingback, T. P.
1988 [MR0958995] Global anomalies, string theory and spacetime topology . Classical Quantum Gravity 5 (1988), no. 9, 1169--1185. --- Killingback, T. P.
1987 [MR0896755] String theory and loop space index theorems . Comm. Math. Phys. 111 (1987), no. 1, 1--10. --- Alvarez, Orlando ; Killingback, T. P. ; Mangano, Michelangelo ; Windey, Paul
[MR0879897] Topology of gauge theories on compact 4-manifolds . Classical Quantum Gravity 4 (1987), no. 2, 357--373. --- Killingback, T. P. ; Rees, E. G.
[MR0892061] World-sheet anomalies and loop geometry . Nuclear Phys. B 288 (1987), no. 3-4, 578--588. --- Killingback, T. P.
[MR1005560] The Dirac-Ramond operator in string theory and loop space index theorems . Nonperturbative methods in field theory (Irvine, CA, 1987). Nuclear Phys. B Proc. Suppl. 1A (1987), 189--215. --- Alvarez, Orlando ; Killingback, T. P. ; Mangano, Michelangelo ; Windey, Paul
[MR0879235] Topological sectors in superstring theory . Phys. Lett. B 184 (1987), no. 2-3, 197--201. --- Killingback, T. P.
[MR0884585] Global gravitational anomalies and smooth 11-manifolds . Classical Quantum Gravity 4 (1987), no. 3, {\rm L}71--{\rm L}74. --- Killingback, T. P.
1985 [MR0795089] Spinc structures on manifolds . Classical Quantum Gravity 2 (1985), no. 4, 433--4381985. --- Killingback, T. P. ; Rees, E. G.
[MR0806249] Nonlinear ?-models on compact Riemann surfaces . Comm. Math. Phys. 100 (1985), no. 4, 481--494. --- Killingback, T. P.
[MR0804463] Global aspects of fixing the gauge in the Polyakov string and Einstein gravity . Comm. Math. Phys. 100 (1985), no. 2, 267--277. --- Killingback, T. P.
1984 [MR0740160] The Gribov ambiguity in gauge theories on the four-torus . Phys. Lett. B 138 (1984), no. 1-3, 87--90. --- Killingback, T. P.


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