Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Systems

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Coures Outline and Syllabus

Syllabus

Course Outline

Questions for Professor Rickus or TA Mike

Organize Team Groups and Topics

Group 1: Dr. Rickus has a request that one group work on Bacterial Paper Rock Scissors. this is a project where 3 genetically engineered bacterial strains compete against each other in such away that 1 beats/kills 2, 2 beats/kills 3, and 3beats/kills 1. anyone game?

Group 2 Circadian Rhyth. my name is ladida anyone wanna join

Lecture Notes and Topics

Monday August 20 Lecture 1 powerpoint Wed Aug 22 in class covered: projects, email list, class wiki, state space, existence and uniqueness, trajectory, dimensionality, possible behavior of 1,2,3 D systems, coverting higher order and time dependent equations to state space, intro to stability, intro to vector fields, autocatalysis example Chapter 1 notes