Department of Mathematics

Speaker: James P. Keener
Title: The Use of Mathematics to Understand Biological Processes: Signalling, Patterns, and Measurements
Affiliation: University of Utah
Date: Friday, October 16, 2015
Place and Time: Room 101, Love Building, 3:35-4:30 pm
Refreshments: Room 204, Love Building, 3:00 pm

Abstract. Mathematics, specifically the mathematics of diffusion and reaction, has been successfully applied to give us important, fundamental understandings of the way many biological processes work. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of some of these important insights, as they apply to the signals, patterns and measurements without which biological organisms could not exist or survive.