Week |
Sections |
Topics |
Partial Assignment List, Turning in those with * |
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1 |
1.1, 1.2 |
Probability and Communication
Channel |
1*,2*,3,4* Due on Monday, August 29 |
2 |
1.3,1.4,1.5 |
Entropy, Optimal Mean Rate,
Lagrange Multiplier Method |
p8: 1*, 2* ; p11: 1*, 2*, 3*, 4*
; p16: 1*, 2*, 3*, 4* Due on Tuesday, Sept. 6 |
3 |
1.5, 1.6 |
Lagrange Multiplier
Method, Channel Capacity |
p21: 1*,2*,4*,5* Due Monday, Sept. 12 |
4 |
1.5, 2.2, 2.3 |
Channel Capacity, DNA
Replication, Replication Capacity |
p24: 1*,2*,3*,4*, p34: 1*,2*,3* Due Wednesday, Sept.
21 Matlab Assignment, Due Wednesday, Sept. 14 |
5 |
2.3, 2.4 |
Replication
Capacity, Sexual Reproduction |
p37: 1*,2*,3*; p43:
1*, 2* Due Wednesday, Sept.
28 |
6 |
3.1, 3.2, 3.3 |
Spike Information
Theory |
P49: 1,2,3*,4*,5*; p52: 1,2*,3*,4*; p55: 1*,2* Due Wednesday, Oct. 5 |
7 |
4.1,4.2,4.3 |
Circuits |
P62: 1*; p.67:
1*1,2*,3* Due Wednesday, Oct.
12 |
8 |
4.3, 4.4, |
Nonlinear
Circuits, Equivalent Circuits |
P68: 5*,6*,7*; p72:
1*, 2* Due Thursday, Oct. 20
Mid Term Exam
(Friday, On chapter 1, 2, 3) |
9 |
4.4, 4.5 |
Equivalent Circuits, numerical methods for differential
equations, Neuron Models |
P73: 3,4*,5*,6*, 7* (to be assigned) Due Friday, Oct. 28 |
10 |
4.5, 4.6 |
Numerical methods for differential equations, Neuron Models |
Homework Assignment
Due Monday,
Nov. 7 Bonus Project, 10 points, Due Friday
of the 15th week. |
11 |
6.1-6.3 |
Linear
Equations, Phase Line and Bifurcation, |
Sec.6.1: 1(ii)*, 2*, 3*. Sec6.2: 1*,2*, 3*,4*,5*.
Due Wednesday,
Nov. 16 |
12 |
6.3-6.4 |
Phase Plane Method |
Sec.6.3: 1*,2*,3*,4*
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13 |
6.4 |
Fast-Slow Systems and
Time Scale Method |
Sec.6.3: 1*,2*,3*,4*
Sec.6.4: 1*,2*,3*,4*
Due Wednesday, Nov. 30. |
14 |
6.5-6.6 |
Relaxation
Oscillations, Linearization, Hopf Bifurcation |
Sec.6.5: 1*,2*,3*
Sec.6.6: 1*,2*,3*,4*,5,6 Due Wednesday, Dec. 7. |
15 |
7.1-7.2 |
Holling’s Predation Theory, Efficiency Stabilization
Principle |
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16 |
Final Exam |
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*Problems
to hand in.
Notes:
1. Without permission homework past due date will not be accepted.
2. Homework without the statements
of problem will not be accepted.
Current
Week is in Red.
There will be at least one “project’’. It requires the use of the math computer lab
in Avery 18.
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Grade Requirement:
Mathematical Biology
Seminar and Reading Club
Time and Place: 3:30 pm, Room 118 Avery Hall
Additional attendance, 2 bonus points each
Sir Michael Atiyah ‘s public lecture
Title: "The Nature of Space"
Time: 4:00 pm, Friday, October 21
Venue: Kimball Recital Hall
Print out
Seminar
attendance check-off sheet
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