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ES_APPM 395: Selected Topics in Applied Mathematics


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Description

Mathematics of Life

Course Goals: To expose young scientists to recent Theory driven advances in our understanding of Living systems.

Course Method: A reading course. Some essential background will be provided. 

Target audience: Typically senior undergraduates and starting graduate students who are mathematically/physically inclined and interested in the life sciences.

Course description: Mathematical thinking is playing an increasingly dominant role in experimental design, data analysis, and the conceptual understanding of Life. Through reading a diversity of papers at the interface of mathematical and physical ways of thinking, and biological phenomena, we hope to expose young scientists to this field.

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Physical Mathematics

An undergraduate version of asymptotic methods including numerical methods.

Recommended text: Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers; Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory, by Bender and Orszag.