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MBI Autumn Quarter Course: Topics in Mathematical Ecology

Instructors:

• Joe Tien, Department of Mathematics, MATH 693 class # 13070
• Libby Marschall, Department of EEOB
• Yuan Lou, Department of Mathematics, MATH 693 class # 13044
• Ian Hamilton, Departments of EEOB and Mathematics, MATH 693 class # 13032

Dates/Time: Wednesdays and Fridays (2:00-3:30pm)
Location: Jennings Hall Room 355

Click here for syllabus

Kindsvater, H.K., S. H. Alonzo, M. Mangel and M. B. Bonsall. 2010. Effects of age- and state-dependent allocation on offspring size and number. Evolutionary Ecology Research 12: 327-346.

Fischer, B., B. Taborsky, and U. Dieckmann. 2009. Unexpected patterns of plastic energy allocation in stochastic environments. American Naturalist 173 (3):108-120.

This Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) course is designed to introduce topics in mathematical ecology to MBI Postdoctoral Fellows and to graduate students in the Math Biology program, but is open to any interested graduate students and postdocs. The course will be team taught, with two weeks (4 classes) spent on each of the following topics:

Epidemiological models, Joe Tien
September 15, 17
September 22, 24

Stochastic dynamic models in ecology, Libby Marschall
October 13, 15
October 20, 22

Spatial ecology and the evolution of dispersal, Yuan Lou
November 10, 12
November 17, 19

Evolutionary game theory, Ian Hamilton
December 1, 3
December 8, 10

These lectures will be available by live streaming video. If you would like to view MBI talks live, please email us at streaming@mbi.osu.edu and ask for a link.