Research Areas

Publications

• Journal Articles and Book Chapters
• Books
• Short Essays, Extended Abstracts, and Reviews
• Scholarpedia Articles

Demonstrations

Glass Patterns
 

Postdoctoral Fellow

• T. K. Shajahan

Graduate Students

• Bartlomiej Borek
• Thomas Quail

Former Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Fellows

• Marcos Nahmad Bensusan
• Gil Bub
• Roderick Edwards
• Alexander Hodge
• Min-Young Kim
• Vincent Lemaire
• Claudia Lerma
• Eric Libby
• Patrick Martineau
• Theodore Perkins
• Roy Wilds

Courses

Fall 2010

BIOLOGY 309 - Mathematical Models in Biology
PREREQUISITES: 1 year of calculus; MATH 222 is also recommended; or permission of instructor
DESCRIPTION: Mathematical Models in Biology is a course that gives the student basic skills necessary to understand the ways mathematics can be applied to study biological systems.
1) FINITE DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS IN BIOLOGY

A) Dynamics in 1-dimensional finite difference equations modelling ecosystems including concepts of steady states, cycles and chaos. Boolean switching networks as applied to genetic regulation. Cellular automata and fractals.

2) DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

A) One dimensional differential equations modelling growth and decay in biology. Second order linear and nonlinear differential equations modelling ecological, biochemical, and compartmental systems in biology. Stability analysis of first and second order nonlinear differential equations. Phase plane analysis of nonlinear second order differential equations.

TEXT: Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics by Daniel Kaplan and Leon Glass
TIME: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m., Stewart S3/3

Hobbies

• French Horn
• Hiking

Leon Glass

Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology
Professor of Physiology

Mailing address:
Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics
Department of Physiology
McGill University
3655 Prom. Sir William Osler
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1Y6

Curriculum Vitae