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Section 01 & 18390
Jing Li
Office: Live Oak Hall (LO), Room 1303C
Phone: 818-677-7799
E-mail: jing.li(at)csun(dot)edu
Office hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 2:00pm - 3:00pm or by
appointment (email)
Midterm Exam : (date to be announed) in class.
Mondays & Wednesdays 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm in CH (Chaparral Hall) 5117
I will post all assigments, solutions and additional material in this
space. You should therefore consult this spot frequently.
Course Syllabus
| Week | Date | Topics covered | Homework | Homework due date | Additional Material |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan 20 & 22 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Introduction |
Reading Week 1 | ||
| 2 | Jan 27 & 29 | Ch 1: Continuous population models for single species
1.1: Exponential, Logistic, and Gompertz Growth 1.2: Evolutionary Aspects |
Problem Set 1 of Homework 1 | Practice Problem Set 1 | Reading Week 2 |
| 3 | Feb 3 & 5 | 1.3: Harvest Models: Bifurcations and Breakpoints | Problem Set 2 of Homework 1 | Practice Problem Set 2 | Reading Week 3 |
| 4 | Feb 10 & 12 | 1.4 Delay Models | Problem Set 3 of Homework 1 | Reading Week 4 | |
| 5 | Feb 17 & 19 | 1.5: Population Model with Age Distribution | Problem Set 4 of Homework 1 | Reading Week 5 | |
| 6 | Feb 24 & 26 | Ch 2: Discrete Population Models for a Single Species
2.1 Density-Independent Growth 2.2 Density-Dependent Growth |
Problem Set of Homework 2 | Reading Week 6 | |
| 7 | Mar 3 & 5 |
2.2 cont'd Ch 3: Models for Interacting Populations 3.1 A Classical Predator-Prey Model |
Problem Set 1 of Homework 3 | Reading Week 7 | |
| 8 | Mar 10 & 12 | 3.2: To cycle or not to cyle 3.3: Global bifurcation in predator-prey models |
Problem Set 2 of Homework 3 | Reading Week 8 | |
| 9 | Mar 17 & 19 | 3.4: Chemostate models 3.5: Discrete-item predator-prey models |
Reading Week 9 | ||
| 10 | Mar 24 & 26 | 3.6: Competition models
3.7: Mutualism models |
Problem Set of Homework 4 | Reading Week 10 | |
| 11 | Mar 31 & April 2 |
Cesar Chavez Holiday
Chapter 4: Dynamics of infectious diseases 4.1: Introduction to epidemic models |
Course Projects | Reading Week 11 | |
| 12 | April 7 & 9 | Spring Recess; No Instruction | Reading Week 12 | ||
| 13 | April 14 & 16 |
4.2 The simple Kermack-McKendrick epidemic Model
4.3: More complicated epidemic model |
Reading Week 13 | ||
| 14 | April 21 & 23 | 4.4: Model for endemic diseases | Reading Week 14 | ||
| 15 | April 28 & 30 | Notes on basic reproduction numbers | |||
| 16 | May 5 & 7 | Case study 1 on selected topics
Case study 2 on selected topics |
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| 17 | Final Exam Week | Course Project Presentation |