Spring 2006
New Course: Mathematical Modeling of Cancer

This Spring Natalia Komarova will be teaching Math 291C Topics in Applied and Computational Mathematics. The course code is 44885.

The topic is "Mathematical modeling of cancer". The course will introduce the students to cutting-edge research in cancer modeling and expose them to a wide variety of mathematical tools. These tools are not specific to cancer modeling and can be used in a great variety of research areas.

The course will combine elements of mathematical modeling, dynamical systems and applied stochastic processes. The instructor will give introduction to all these topics. We will talk about cancer initiation and progression, dangerous mutations, Darwinean selection acting upon cells, chromosomal instability, stem cells, and treatment of cancer. The course
will be based on Komarova's book, "Computational biology of cancer: lecture notes and mathematical modeling".

The only prerequisites are undergraduate Ordinary Differential Equations and Probability.

Pre-2006 Highlights:

Dec 2004
Fall Announcements.

Oct 2004
Leibler talk and Thorsten's course

April 2004
Spring '04 Systems Biology seminars and course

April 2004
Call for Project Proposals for P50 Center Grant

Jan 2004
Systems Biology Forum organized by Professors Baldi and Mjolsness for Winter 2004 quarter

Dec 2003
Professor Eric Mjolsness receives FIBR grant for The Computable Plant

Jan 2003
UCI Licenses Cellerator

Dec 2002
Professor James D. Murray from University of Washington gave three talks ( Talk 1 , Talk 2 , Talk 3 ) on December 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 2002.