-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Course: Dynamics of structured populations Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:09:07 -0500 (EST) From: evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca Reply-To: kisdi@mappi.helsinki.fi To: tanja.pyhajarvi@oulu.fi
Graduate course on the DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURED POPULATIONS at the University of Helsinki, April-May 2006
In late spring 2006, Professor Mats Gyllenberg will give a course on modelling and the dynamics of general physiologically structured populations. The course starts with an account of the basic principles of modelling structured populations and will in the end bring the audience to the research frontier of the field of mathematical population theory. Topics include existence and uniqueness of solutions, steady-state analysis, stability and bifurcation theory, and adaptive dynamics.
Prerequisites for the course are a solid background in undergraduate mathematics (analysis, linear algebra, probability) and a genuine interest in biology.
The course starts on April 3 and ends on May 5, 2006. There will be 8 hours of lectures per week. Graduate as well as advanced undergraduate students and young researchers from other universities are welcome and can join the course free of charge; we however cannot provide financial assistance for travel and subsistence.
For more information, please contact Eva Kisdi at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland (email: eva.kisdi...at...helsinki.fi). The course website is at http://mathstat.helsinki.fi/research/biometry/biomath/courses/structured.htm....
Eva Kisdi Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki