Department of Statistics

Recent Instructors Gross, Kevin	BMA/ST 772	Biomathematics II
	Course Description Continuation of topics of BMA 771. Some more advanced mathematical techniques concerning nonlinear differential equations of types encountered in BMA 771: several concepts of stability, asymptotic directions, Liapunov functions; different time-scales. Comparison of deterministic and stochastic models for several biological problems including birth and death processes. Discussion of various other applications of mathematics to biology, some recent research. Course Syllabus Probability and stochasticity, discrete time Markov chains Branching processes Poisson processes Birth-death processes Brownian motion Uhlenbeck processes Course Prerequisites BMA 771 Course Corequisites None Recent Textbooks Introductin to Probabilty Models,8th ed by Sheldon M Ross.