IDEAS FOR DIRECTED READING PROGRAM INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS (FALL 2023) * Modeling and simulation of complex parasitoid-host population systems Reference: https://www.colorado.edu/project/mathbio/2018/05/02/host-parasitoid-models * Modeling and simulation of virus dynamics Reference: "Virus dynamics: The Mathematical Foundations of Immunology and Virology" Martin A. Nowak, Robert May; Oxford University Press; 1st ed, 2001 * Modeling and simulation of chemotaxis models Reference: https://people.cs.vt.edu/~ycao/labweb/chemotaxis/chemotaxis.html * Auto-regulation in gene regulatory networks Reference: "Evolutionary Computation in Gene Regulatory Network Research" Hitoshi Iba, Nasimul Noman; Wiley; 2016 * Reliance of scale-free networks Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network * Simulation of random particle movement References: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Research/OP/river.pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.04493 * Mathematical models for maritime wildlife References: Swanson, Courtney, "Understanding Changes in Marine Communities Through a Discretized, Size- Structured Matrix Model" (2021). Senior Seminars and Capstones. 3. https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/capstone/3 "An ODE Model of the Motion of Pelagic Fish" Bjorn Birnir; Journal of Statistical Physics 128(1):535-568 (2007) DOI:10.1007/s10955-007-9292-2 * Biological transport processes in cells Reference: "Principles and Models of Biological Transport" Morton H. Friedman, Springer * Other -- let us know what projects you'd like to pursue!