SUBJECT
Title
Pattern Formation in Chemical and Biological Systems
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
Master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
Pattern formation in nonlinear chemical and biological systems. Nonlinear thermodynamics. Instabilities in nonlinear systems. Stability analysis. Kinetic and diffusion driven instabilities in reaction-diffusion systems. The activator-inhibitor model. Deterministic chaos in chemistry and biology.
Readings
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Murray: Mathematical Biology (Springer, 2002)
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Camazine, Deneubourg, Franks, Sneyd, Theraulaz, Bonabeau: Self-Organization on Biological Systems (Princeton University Press, 2003)