Graduate Course 2014

Course 735220 of Graduate School of Human Culture, Nara Women's University

Dr. Fugo Takasu (Dept. Information and Computer Sciences)

<Term and Lecture Room> First semester, every Monday at 2nd slot (10:40-12:10) at G303 and G301

<Aim>In this course we aim to 1) learn basic mathematical models of population dynamics and 2) experience numerical calculation of these models, and 3) learn to extend these simple models to stochastic dynamics and 4) implement these stochastic models to explore the behaivor.

Prospective students are assumed to have good knowledge of basic calculus and experience in C programming. In the first half of lecture, I give explanation of topics and in the second half we implement the topics using C language.

Lecture is given in English on request. Otherwise in Japanese.

<Plan> Reference is ready in pdf.

• Course overview Ref0
• Generating random numbers Ref1, Ref1c
• Immigration-emigration models Ref2, Ref2a, Ref3, Ref3a, Ref4, Ref5
• Birth-death models Ref6, Ref6a, Ref7, Ref7a, Ref8, Ref8a
• Logistic growth models Ref9, Ref9a, Ref10, Ref11, Ref11a, Ref11b

takasu@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp

Last update: April 3, 2014