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'''Group 4''': A chemistry graduate student is looking for more people interested in intracellullar calcium oscillations (i.e. calcium induced calcium release). As of Friday after class, need 3-4 people. Contact mcgreen@purdue.edu | '''Group 4''': A chemistry graduate student is looking for more people interested in intracellullar calcium oscillations (i.e. calcium induced calcium release). As of Friday after class, need 3-4 people. Contact mcgreen@purdue.edu | ||
'''Group 5''': | '''Group 5''': Three multidisciplinary engineering undergraduate students are looking for more people interested in fermentation. As of Friday after class, need 1-2 people. Contact tshuba@purdue.edu. | ||
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General Announcements
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
Organize Team Groups and Topics
Group 1: Dr. Rickus has a request that one group work on Bacterial Paper Rock Scissors. this is a project where 3 genetically engineered bacterial strains compete against each other in such away that 1 beats/kills 2, 2 beats/kills 3, and 3beats/kills 1. anyone game? Yes, group 'Grad Minority' is interested in taking on this project
Group 2 Circadian Rhyth. my name is ladida anyone wanna join
Group 3: A fellow grad student and I are looking for two or three more people interested in investigating cellular differentiation. Contact slnoble@purdue.edu
Group 4: A chemistry graduate student is looking for more people interested in intracellullar calcium oscillations (i.e. calcium induced calcium release). As of Friday after class, need 3-4 people. Contact mcgreen@purdue.edu
Group 5: Three multidisciplinary engineering undergraduate students are looking for more people interested in fermentation. As of Friday after class, need 1-2 people. Contact tshuba@purdue.edu.
other possible ideas: microbial competion, metabolism, neuronal oscillations, cell cycle
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
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