MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY
Description

The course presents the following areas of Mathematical Biology:

  1. Ecology

  • Exponential Model

  • Logistic Model

  • Lotka-Volterra Model

  • Lotka-Volterra Model with Logistic Growth

  • Lotka-Volterra Model with Allee Effect

  1. Epidemiology

  • Compartmental Model

  • Classical SIR

  • SIR with Demographic Terms

  • Structured Models by Age and by Time of Disease

  1. Biochemical Kinetics

  • Multi-Time Scales Models

  • Michaelis-Menten Equation

  • Hodgkin-Huxley Equation

  • Classical Model of Enzyme Kinetics

  • Models of Autocatalysis

  1. Diffusion

  • Diffusion Equation and Systems

  • Turing Instability and Pattern Formation

  • Belousov-Zhabotinsky Chemical Reaction

  • Diffusion in Ecology, Epidemiology and Biochemistry Kinetics

  1. Wave phenomena

  • Fisher equation

  • Traveling and plane waves in Ecology, Epidemiology and Physiology

For the above biological applications, the necessary mathematical notions and results will be presented from the following areas of Analysis:

        1. Ordinary Differential Equations, Discrete Differential Equations and Delay Differential Equations

        2. Applied Mathematics Methods

        3. Partial Differential Equations

        4. Dynamical Systems

Division: Applied Mathematics
Program of Studies:
Undergraduate Studies
Semester: H
ECTS: 6
Hours per week (Lec/Tut/L): 2/2/0
Code: AM470
Course type: Elective
Erasmus students: Yes




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