MATH406-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016

Mathematical Models in Biology

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2016
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 4 March 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 20 May 2016

Description

Mathematical Models in Biology

How did the leopard get its spots? Why should children be vaccinated against measles? This course will try to answer these (and other) questions by using mathematical models to examine biological phenomena.

In achieving this we will study: biochemical reactions, reaction diffusion, cellular homeostasis, membrane ion channels, excitability and nonlinear wave propagation.

Some knowledge of dynamical systems and a familiarity with Maple (or MATLAB) are useful pre-requisites to this course.


For a full list of Honours courses, please refer to the School of Mathematics and Statistics Honours Booklet Mathematics and Statistics Honours Booklet

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of School.

Course Coordinators

Alex James and Phillip Wilson

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $913.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mathematics and Statistics .

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