Unless stated otherwise, section numbers refer to the following text:<br>
Hoppensteadt, Peskin. Modeling and simulation in medicine and the life sciences, Springer, 2nd edition

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Week 1: Introduction. The heart and circulation: 1.1-1.5
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Week 2: Circulation. External control and autoregulation. 1.6-1.9
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Week 3: Circulation. Dynamics of the pulse. Simulations. 1.11-1.13
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Week 4,5: Intro to qualitative analysis of dynamical systems. Supplementary material. Roughly based on the following book excerpts: <a href="1.pdf">1</a>, <a href="2.pdf">2</a>, <a href="3.pdf">3</a>, <a href="4.pdf">4</a>
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Week 6: SIR-model of a spread of infection. Pancreatic beta-cells. Supplementary material can be found <a href="http://mrb.niddk.nih.gov/sherman/Utah.html">here</a>
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Week 7: Pancreatic beta-cells, continued
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Week 8: HIV modeling. Supplementary material is  <a href="perelson_review.pdf">here</a>
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Week 9: Review and Midterm. 
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Week 10: Probability, Markov chains, random genetic drift. 8.2.1, Appendix B from the end of p. 345
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Week 11: Sickle cell anemia model (8.1.1); Binomial distribution, Spread of infection within a family (9.1), 
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Week 12: Poisson process, exponential and poisson distributions. Supplementary material from F. Adler's book "Modeling the dynamics of life" is <a href="exponential.PDF">here </a> and <a href="poisson.PDF">here</a>