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Last Update: Dec. 16, 2025

CLASS POLICY

DMB.txt [Dynamically expanding Maple package]

TEXTS:

• The SIAM classic: Mathematical Models in Biology by Leah Edelstein-Keshet, available (as .pdf files, one for each chapter) in this directory

• We may also use parts of the great book ``Dynamic Models in Biology'' by Stephen P. Ellner and John Guckenheimer, Princeton University Press, available (as .pdf files, one for each chapter) in this directory

Instructor

OFFICIAL Rutgers email: zeilberg@math.rutgers.edu

E-mail for this class: ShaloshBEkhad@gmail.com

Grader

Mr. Ching Hsien Lee (cl1539@math.rutgers.edu)

Times and Place

• Tuesday, 12:10-01:30 pm , Beck 003 (Livingston)
• Friday, 12:10-01:30 pm , Tillett Computer Lab Room 106J2 (Livingston) (note new room)

Office Hours

• Tuesdays and Fridays, 2:30-3:40, Hill 704

Rutgers Virtual Computer Labs [where you can access Maple]

Teach yourself Maple

Teach yourself the basics of Maple by reading Frank Garvan's golden-oldie part 1, part 2
Note: a few commands are no longer valid in today's Maple. The most important one is that " has been replaced by %.

For more details, see Frank Garvan's 2002 masterpiece.

Lectures

• Tue., Sept. 2: Lecture 1

  Homework Assignment 1 (due Sept. 8, 8:00pm)
  [ Here are Rachel Adelman's nice answers ]

  Here is the attendance quiz and here are the
  solutions to the attendance quiz

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• Fri., Sept. 5: Lecture 2;
  Homework Assignment 2 (due Sept. 15, 8:00pm)

  Linear Algebra refresher (by Dr. Edinah Gnang) Solving differential equations refresher

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the
  solutions to today's attendance quiz

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• Tue., Sept. 9: Lecture 3
  Homework Assignment 3 (due Sept. 15, 8:00pm)

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the
  solutions to today's attendance quiz

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• Fri., Sept. 12: Lecture 4
  real quiz 1 (on Lectures 1 and 2) Here is real quiz 1 and here are the solutions (average=9 out of 10)

  Homework Assignment 4 (due Sept. 22, 8:00pm)

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the
  solutions to today's attendance quiz

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• Tue., Sept. 16: Lecture 5

  
  Homework Assignment 5 (due Sept. 22, 8:00pm)

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the
  solutions to today's attendance quiz

  Leslie Matrix

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• Fri., Sept. 19: Lecture 6:
  real quiz 2 (on Lectures 3 and 4)
  Here is today's quiz 2 and here are the solutions to quiz 2 (average: 9.47 (out of 10))

  Homework Assignment 6 (due Sept. 29, 8:00pm)

  PageRank

  Maple Code for today: DMB6.txt

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions to attendance quiz

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• Tue., Sept. 23: Lecture 7
  Homework Assignment 7 (due Sept. 29, 8:00pm)

  Guest Lecturer: Ms. Aurora Hiveley

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions to attendance quiz

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• Fri., Sept. 26: Lecture 8
  real quiz 3 (on Lectures 5 and 6)
  Homework Assignment 8 (due Oct. 6, 8:00pm)

  Maple Code for today: DMB8.txt

  Here is today's quiz 3 and here are the solutions to quiz 3 (average= 10 (out of 10))

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions

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• Tue., Sept. 30: Lecture 9

  Homework Assignment 9 (due Oct. 6, 8:00pm)

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions

  interesting article by Erwin H. Bulte and G. Cornelis van Kooten

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• Fri., Oct. 3:
  Lecture 10 quiz 4 (on Lectures 7 and 8)

  Maple Code for today: DMB10.txt
  Homework Assignment 10 (due Oct. 13, 8:00pm)

  Here is today's quiz 4 and here are the solutions to quiz 4 (average=9.41)

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions

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• Tue., Oct. 7: Lecture 11

  Homework Assignment 11 (due Oct. 13, 8:00pm)

  Feigenbaum Constants

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions

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• Fri., Oct. 10: Lecture 12
  Homework Assignment 12 (due Oct. 20, 8:00pm)

  quiz 5 (on Lectures 9 and 10)

  Maple Code for today: DMB12.txt

  Here is today's quiz 5 and here are the solutions to quiz 5 [average=7.46]

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• Tue., Oct. 14: Lecture 13

  Homework Assignment 13 (due Oct. 20, 8:00pm)

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions

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• Fri., Oct. 17: Lecture 14

  quiz 6 (on Lectures 11 and 12)

  Homework Assignment 14 (due Oct. 27, 8:00pm)

  Maple Code for today: DMB14.txt

  Here is today's quiz 6 and here are the solutions to quiz 6 (average=7.08 out of 10)

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions

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• Tue., Oct. 21: Lecture 15

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions
  Homework Assignment 15 (due Oct. 27, 8:00pm)

  Hardy Weinberg Principle

  SIR Epidemic model by Linda J.S. Allen

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• Fri., Oct. 24: Lecture 16

  quiz 7 (on Lectures 13 and 14) Homework Assignment 16 (due Nov. 3, 8:00pm)

  Here is today's quiz 7 and here are the solutions (average=8.12 out of 10)

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions

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• Tue., Oct. 28: Lecture 17
  Homework Assignment 17 (due Nov. 3, 8:00pm)

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions

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• Fri., Oct. 31: Lecture 18 quiz 8 (on Lectures 15 and 16)
  Homework Assignment 18 (due Nov. 10, 8:00pm)

  L18.txt (Maple code done in class)

  Here is today's quiz 8 and here are the solutions (average=7.86 (out of 10))

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions (generated by Maple)

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• Tue., Nov. 4 : Discussion of Final projects

  Homework: Think what final project to take. On Friday's class we will do the assignment of people to projects.

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• Fri., Nov. 7: Further discussion of Final projects

  Assigning of students to projects

  quiz 9 (on Lectures 17 and 18)

  Here is today's quiz 9 and here are the solutions (average=8.67 (out of 10))

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• Tue., Nov. 11: Lecture 19
  How to do your projects (part I)

  ProjX.txt (template)

  Homework Assignment 19: Make progress on your project

  Here is today's attendance quiz and here are the solutions

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• Fri., Nov. 14: Lecture 20 No quiz today

  How to do your projects (part II)

  HW20 (due Nov. 17, 8:00pm): Email the current version of your ProjX.txt

  Note: Everyone must do it, not just the project leader. The attachemt should be LastFirstProjX.txt

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• Tue., Nov. 18: Lecture 21
  

  Competitive Lotka-Volterra equations

  Lotka-Volterra equations

  Sections 6.2 and 6.3 of Professor Leah Edelstein-Keshet's book

  Homework Assignment 21 (due Dec. 1 8:00pm)

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• Fri., Nov. 21: Lecture 22 . NO QUIZ TODAY

  Review for Midterm exam

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• Tue., Nov. 25: NO CLASS

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• Wed., Nov. 26: Midterm Exam (on lectures 1-20)

  Here is today's midterm exam and here are the (almost perfect) solutions (thanks to Victoria Serafin) (average=75.1)

  People who didn't do as well as they could are welcome to join the Second Chance Club

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• Tue., Dec. 2: Lecture 23
  Homework Assignment 23 (due Dec. 8, 8:00pm)

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• Fri., Dec. 5: Lecture 24 : No official homework (but make progress on your projectg)

  Quiz 10 (on Lecture 21)

  Here is today's quiz 10 and here are the solutions (average=4.69)

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• Tue., Dec. 9: REVIEW for the Final

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• Fri, Dec. 12: 12:10-1:30 pm: presentation of students' final projects (via WebEx)

  WATCH THE VIDEO of the session.

  and here are the Final projects

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• Sunday, Dec. 14, 7:00-8:30 pm. On-Line REVIEW. Optional but MANDATORY FOR MEMBERS OF THE SECOND CHANCE CLUB.

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• Tue, Dec. 16, 2025, 8:00-11:00am: FINAL EXAM in classroom (BECK 003)

  Here is the (empty) Empty final exam and here are the almost perfect Caroline Hill's Solutions and Daniyal Chaudhry's Solutions    (average=180.7 [out of 200])