Course Identification
Mathematics module: Topics in applied Mathematics
Lecturers and Teaching Assistants
Prof. Dmitry Novikov, Dr. Tatiyana Sokolovsky
Course Schedule and Location
Thursday, 13:30 - 15:00, WSoS, Rm 5
08/11/2018
Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points
Science Teaching (non thesis MSc Track): Lecture; Obligatory; Regular; 2.00 points
Restrictions
For students in the Rothschild-Weizmann program only
Attendance and participation
Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)
Syllabus
What is Applied Mathematics? Are advanced mathematical techniques useful at all?
This course will deal with problems arising in life sciences and physics and will demonstrate how such problems may be approached by mathematical means.
We will see how the analysis and the computer simulations of the emerging mathematical models give rise to new qualitative and quantitative insights regarding these problems.
We will also see how some mathematical tools provide new understandings of a range of scientific problems that are seemingly unrelated to each other.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:
- Recognize the role of mathematics in various scientific fields.
- Integrate knowledge from diverse fields such as calculus, algebra, geometry, differential equations and dynamical systems theory to formulate and analyze models that arise, for example, in biology (population dynamics) and physics (mechanics).