Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) 2011

The course will cover modelling and analysis of ecological populations. The focus will be model formulation, mathematical analysis and biological insight. Subjects will be taken from: single species models (stochastic, continuous time, delay, discrete-time), interacting populations (predator-prey, cycles, chemostat, competition, mutualism), harvesting and optimal control, spatially structured populations (invasions, criticial domain size, reaction diffusion, integrodifference), and age-structured models (integral, difference, matrix, PDE). You will receive a mark for this course, based on assignments.