1. Population growth models (人口增长模型) (10 credit hours)
2. Competition of two species (两种物种的竞争)(8 credit hours)
3. Predator-Prey Models (捕食者 - 猎物模型) (9 credit hours)
4. Spatially distributed Populations (空间分布的种群)(12 credit hours)
5. Age-structured populations (有年龄结构的种群) (3 credit hours)
Selective topics (选讲内容): (6 credit hours)
6. Population Genetics (群体遗传学)
7. Infectious Disease Modelling (传染病模型)
8. Biochemical Reactions (生物化学反应模型)
No required textbook
Main References:
1. Josef Hofbauer (U. of Vienna), Course Notes on Mathematics in Population Biology.
2. Jeffrey R. Chasnov (HKUST), Course Notes on Mathematical Biology.
Further References:
3. Reinhard Bürger, The Mathematical Theory of Selection, Recombination, and Mutation, John Wiley & Sons,
2000.
4. Josef Hofbauer and Karl Sigmund, Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics , Cambridge University
Press , 1998.
5. Thomas Nagylaki, Introduction to Theoretical Population Genetics, Biomathematics 21, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, 1992.
6. Robert Stephen Cantrell and Chris Cosner, Spatial ecology via reaction-diffusion equations, Wiley Series in
Mathematical and Computational Biology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, 2003.