The Dynamics of Biological Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bianchi, Arianna (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hillen, Thomas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lewis, Mark A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Yi, Yingfei (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Mathematics of Planet Earth, 4
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Biomathematics.; Systems biology.; Biological systems.; Mathematics of Planet Earth.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Systems Biology.

The book presents nine mini-courses from a summer school, Dynamics of Biological Systems, held at the University of Alberta in 2016, as part of the prestigious seminar series: Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures (SMS). It includes new and significant contributions in the field of Dynamical Sys...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1. Dynamical Systems in Biology - A Short Introduction
• Chapter2. Modelling of Molecular Networks
• Chapter3. Large-Scale Epidemic Models and a Graph-Theoretic Method for Constructing Lyapunov Functions
• Chapter4. Mixing in Meta-Population Models
• Chapter5. Structured Population Models for Vector-Borne Infection Dynamics
• Chapter6. Stochastic Population Kinetics and Its Underlying Mathematicothermodynamics
• Chapter7. The Turing Model for Biological Pattern Formation
• Chapter8. Persistence, Competition and Evolution
• Chapter9. Kinetic equations and cell motion: An Introduction.