Todays topics: Completed Chapter 2, ¡­

Todays topics: Completed Chapter 2, discussed several examples of systems of differential equations and applied previously established stability theory / phase plane analysis, systems with competition among species (2.5), limit cycles, the Poincare-Bendixson theorem (appendix B), Dulac/Bendixson criterion (appendix B), and bifurcation theory for systems of differential equations-Hopf bifurcation (appendix B).

Exercises (for the following weeks): 2.6, 2.7, 2.11, 2.12.

The lectures next week are devoted to exercises.

No lectures in weeks 13 and 14 (Easter). The first lecture after Easter is Monday April 8. After Easter the lecture plan is: Chapter 3 (Infectious diseases) and Chapter 6 (Molecular and cellular biology).