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Introduction to ODE
Here are my lecture notes (first third of the course) for the Intro to ODE class. The web page will be updating.
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Peer review system, open access, and everything else
Here are a few links to interesting posts: Who’s afraid of peer review? Opinion on the link above: I confess, I wrote the Arsenic DNA paper to expose flaws in peer-review at subscription based journals...
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Literature for Mathematics of Networks
I got to the middle of my course Mathematics of Networks, and definitely a lot of things are much clearer for me now than they were before. I am not sure I will be able to cover some applied aspects of...
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New and old courses on Coursera
Another manifestation of the popularity of the ideas of the network science is the number of courses at Coursera, which deal with different aspects of the network approach to various fields. Here is...
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Upcoming conference
Here is an interesting (potentially) conference to attend: SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences
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Yandex Seminar Video
Here is a link to Yandex seminar. In particular, A modern view on centrality measuress Random graph process models for large networks (upcoming)
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Eugene Koonin on evolution
Here is a link to online version of Eugene’s lecture on the modern view on evolution (“modern” with a caveat that quite a number of well known biologists probably would not agree with some of the...
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Middle East Conflict and Applied mathematics
Notices recently published several papers about applied mathematics, whose conclusions are disputable. The latest one is titled Principles for Implementing a Potential Solution to the Middle East...
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Video from conference on Random Graphs at Yandex
Yandex uploaded videos from the talks at the Workshop on Random Graphs and their Applications. Some of them are quite interesting.
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Recommendation letters for Einstein
From here: From Henri Poincaré: Nov. 1911 My dear colleague, Mr Einstein is one of the most original thinkers I have ever met. In spite of his youth, he has already achieved a very honourable place...
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Two URLs
Peter Higgs: I wouldn’t be productive enough for today’s academic system Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ him in today’s...
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Intro to ODE
Here is a full list of lectures for my introductory ODE course: webpage It took more time than I expected, and I am planning to edit and slightly extend them (with respect to the mathematical rigor)...
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Infectious Disease Dynamics
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Studies hold in August-September 2013 one month workshop on Infectious Disease Dynamics. Here is a link to an extensive list of presentations.
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A few links
We Pretend to Teach, They Pretend to Learn The Best and the Brightest Still Fill Our Universities Google Scholar Wins Raves—But Can It Be Trusted?
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Updates on teaching
This semester I am teaching Intro to ODE Which will give me a great change to work through the lecture notes again and polish them a little. Math methods in biology Where I will be translating parts of...
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On the use of differential equations
The complex dynamics of wishful thinking: The critical positivity ratio We examine critically the claims made by Fredrickson and Losada (2005) concerning the construct known as the “positivity ratio”....
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New journal and another conference
In May 17-18 I plan to be at Midwest Mathematical Biology Conference. My presentation will be on Crow-Kimura mutation-selection model. They offer to publish proceeding of the conference in a new...
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Eugene Koonin on the Virus World
Here is a link to an interview with Eugene Koonin: link
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The Slow Science Manifesto
THE SLOW SCIENCE MANIFESTO We are scientists. We don’t blog. We don’t twitter. We take our time. Don’t get us wrong—we do say yes to the accelerated science of the early 21st century. We say yes to the...
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Dusk of Facebook?
Epidemiological modeling of online social network dynamics The last decade has seen the rise of immense online social networks (OSNs) such as MySpace and Facebook. In this paper we use epidemiological...
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