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Description:
Over the past decades, mathematics has increasingly (and successfully) been used for the modelling and analysis of
biological and physiological problems. Mathematical Biology has thus developed into an active, varied and inherently
interdisciplinary field of research. Major advances have been made, for example, in the modelling of disease spreading
and tumour growth, in the analysis of biological pattern formation and in physiological fluid mechanics. The complexity
of biological and physiological systems makes them a rich source of challenging problems whose analysis often
stimulates the development of novel mathematical techniques.
This short course is aimed at postgraduate students in Mathematics and will provide an introduction to four main research areas in Mathematical Biology.
Opening Lecture: Bioconvection, Professor T.J. Pedley, FRS (University of Cambridge) Course I: Modelling biological pattern formation, Professor Philip Maini (University of Oxford) Course II: Biological fluid mechanics, Dr Matthias Heil (University of Manchester) Course III: Modelling solid tumour growth, Dr Helen Byrne (University of Nottingham)
Date received: November 16, 2001
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