Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Systems
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General Announcements
Dear Class,
Several of you are going to BMES meeting in LA from Sept 26 - 28. Exam 1 was originally scheduled for Wed Sept 26. I am considering moving the exam to Sept 24. 7-9 pm. in order to avoid a large number of make-up exams. Please let me know if you have a conflict with Monday Sept 24th 7-9 pm. Please inform me of any conflicts via email by this Thursday (sept 14) midnight.
Prof Rickus
Update: apparently many of you have an exam on Monday night. What about Tuesday night? Please inform me of any conflicts via email by this Thursday (sept 14) midnight.
Prof Rickus
Coures Outline and Syllabus
This course is an introduction to nonlinear dynamics with applications to biology targeted to junior/senior engineering students and 1st year graduate students in engineering and quantitative life sciences.
We will use Strogatz as our main text and supplement with outside biological examples.
Questions for Professor Rickus or TA Mike
9/7/07
Q: I was wondering how to show that the origin is stable in a super critical pitchfork with r=0 since the slope test fails. Also, what is the stability at the origin when r=0 for the subcritical pitchfork case and by what reasoning?
A: When the linear stability analysis (slope test) fails, the way to determine the stability definitively is to look at the phase portrait. Plot dx/dt versus x for that value of your parameter, r. Is the fixed point of interest stable or unstable? You should be able to tell by the direction of the vector fields on either side of the fixed point. Try this yourself for the supercritical and subcritical and see what you get. After doing this. See me if you are still confused.
Organize Team Groups and Topics
Team Cardiac Rhythm (5) - Athurva Gore (ajgore@purdue.edu), Iecun Johanes (ijohanes@purdue.edu), Yi (Gary) Hou (hou3@purdue.edu), Harsha Ranganath (hrangana@purdue.edu), Hamid Zakaeifar (hzakaeif@purdue.edu)
Calcium Homeostasis (6) - Jeffrey Kras, Andy Deeds, Brian Kaluf, Dan Song, Keith Rennier (added late), Kyuwan Lee
Hormone release and fluctuation (5)- Zach Featherstone, Ian Thorson, Tracy Liu, Lauren Hamamoto, Kyle Amick
neurological signals (5): Brandon Davis, Nicole Meehan, Omeed Paydar, Andrew Pierce, Christina Dadarlat
neuronal firing:(5) Timu Gallien, Julie Morby, Michelle Scheidt, Mark Wilson, Mandy Green
cadiac modeling(5), Matt Croxall, Meghan Floyd, Erica Halsey, Shari Hatfield, Rohit Shah
bacterial rock paper scissors(3): Team Grad Minority. Alex DiMauro, Trisha Eustaquio, and Nick Snead
circadian rhythms(5): Jeremy Schaeffer, Arun Mohan , Drew Lengerich, Shaunak A Kothari, Iunia Dadarlat
cell differentiation(4): Sarah Noble, Paul Critser, Prasad Siddavatam, Jiji Chen
team name: The Bowman Group, members: Chris Fancher, Todd Shuba, and Ben Zajeski and area of interest: Fermentation
Hospital sustainability(4): Steve Higbee, Halle Burton, Tyler MacBroom, Steven Lee
The Metabolites (4), Members: Brooke Beier, Eric Brandner, Elizabeth Casey, Eric Hodgman, Areas of interest: Metabolism and neuron cells, Potential Project Area: Metabolic flux of neuron cells during firing
human Immune Response - Will Schultz, Ezra Fohl, Eric Kennedy, and Jon Lubkert
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
Fri Aug 24th in class covered: projects, review stability of fixed points, look at linear examples, linear stability analysis, classic May problem: cows in the field
Mon Aug 27th in class covered: identify the bifurcations in the May cow problem, what is a bifurcation, critical parameter values, saddle node bifurcations, introduce bifurcation diagrams
Wed Aug 29th in classe covered: transcritical bifurcations, pitchfork (super and subcritical)
Fri Aug 31st tumor problem - 2 parameter, 1D system with multiple bifurcations. creating stability diagrams. the tangency condition of saddle node bifurcations
Mon Sept 3 - no class labor day holiday
Wed Sept 5 - finish stability diagram and phase portraits of tumor treatment problem. Mathematica File Used in Class
Fri Sept 7 - Nova Chaos Video
Mon Sept 10 - Strogatz Chapter 4, Flow on a Circle, Nonlinear Oscillator, Excitable Cells , Basics of Neuron Physiology
Background Math to Brush Up On
these following things should be 2nd nature to you. if they are hazing from the summer fun, it would be best to brush up now.
- sketching of common functions: exponentials [math]\displaystyle{ exp(ax) }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ sin(x) }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ cos(x) }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ x / x+1 }[/math], more generally [math]\displaystyle{ ax^n /(x^n+b) }[/math], polynomials
- taking derivatives of common functions
- solving simple linear ODEs [math]\displaystyle{ dx/dt = kx }[/math]
- finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- Taylor series expansion
- solving polynomials
- complex numbers
