Lab Rotation

Various research topics are available for a two-month lab rotation. You will get some hands-on introductions to modern computational methods used in mathematical biology. Interest? Sent me an email.

Aims:

• understanding basic principles underlying spatio-temporal patters, e.g. front and pulse propagation (e.g. action potentials, spreading depression)
• establish a solid knowledge of solving nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE) by numerical methods.
• learn about applications such as dynamical diseases.

Learning outcomes: By the end of the lab rotation the students are able to solve PDEs of diffusion-type (parabolic equations) by software tools such as AUTO and XPP-Aut (software for continuation and bifurcation problems).

We also offer lab rotations on

• programming a microcontroller-driven light device and
• mathematical modeling of hallucinatory patterns

to investigate flicker-light induced and other visual phenomena, their frequency dependence and the various form features of hallucinatory percepts.

Some Completed Lab Rotations

Jan Herding

Topic: Comparing Characteristic Features of Unstable Travelling Wave Solutions and Spikelets

Jonas Seiler

Topic: Simulating pronociceptive reaction – diffusion pattern in migraine