SUBJECT

Title

Pattern Formation in Chemical and Biological Systems

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

Master

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
  • Murray: Mathematical Biology (Springer, 2002)

  • Camazine, Deneubourg, Franks, Sneyd, Theraulaz, Bonabeau: Self-Organization on Biological Systems (Princeton University Press, 2003)