Nonlinear Systems in Biomedical Engineering

Enrollment Requirements: Undergraduate Prerequisite: CASMA 226 and (ENGBE 403 or ENGEC 401); Graduate Prerequisite: Graduate Standing Introduction to nonlinear dynamical systems in biomedical engineering. Qualitative, analytical and computational techniques. Stability, bifurcations, oscillations, multistability, hysteresis, multiple time-scales, chaos. Introduction to experimental data analysis and control techniques. Applications discussed include population dynamics, biochemical systems, genetic circuits, neural oscillators, etc.