Math biology seminar in PSA 106 from 3:40 to 4:30 PM on Monday, November 19.

Speaker: Lev Ginzburg Dept. Ecology and Evolution SUNY, Stony Brook title is "How planets move and populations grow".

Abstract:

This is a revision of the basic description of population dynamics incorporating inertial properties. The mechanism of inertia is maternal effect. Traditional ecological theory is analogized to Aristotelian physics. Malthusian law plays the role analogous to the first Newton's law of physics.