Graduate Course 2004

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 Wednesday at 1st slot at G303

<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.

<Plan> Reference is ready in pdf.

• Overview Ref0
• Generating random numbers Ref1, Ref2
• Immigration-emigration models Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
• Birth-death models Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
• Logistic growth models Ref9, Ref10

takasu@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp

Last update: Wed, Apr 5, 2006