Thursday 16 November 2006
from 10:15
to 11:00 at
Nordita building
Speaker :
Dr. Mikko Alava (Helsinki University of Technology)
Abstract :
Two coupled populations of species often exhibit complicated
behavior in "coexistence", something noticable in both
statistical physics simulations and in real biological
contexts (parasite-host-interactions, prey-predator-interactions).
In this talk I discuss the pertinent features: spatial patterns
and temporal oscillations of populations in finite systems, and
the relation between these two phenomena. One important aspect
is how to characterize and detect the "patterns" and to be able
to tell if a certain states has these or not. Another is to
understand the joint oscillations of patterns, and the two
populations.
(work in collaboration with Matti Peltomaki, HUT,
and Martin Rost, Bonn)
