Venue: Feynman Lecture Hall
Class Timings: Tuesdays & Thursdays from 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
First Meeting: 16 January 2024
Course Description:
What is a pattern? Spatiotemporal patterns in biology.
Brief recap of nonlinear dynamics. Phase-space analysis. Numerical tools for pattern formation. Galerkin methods. Amplitude equations. Pattern selection. Vector/Tensor order parameters. Topological defects. Group-theoretic classification of patterns.
Patterns driven by free-energy gradients. Self-organized nonequilibrium patterns. Reaction-diffusion systems. Signalling patterns. Turing instabilities. Ecological patterns.
Hydrodynamics of active materials. Pattern formation in active matter. Mechanochemical and geometrodynamic patterns in cell & developmental biology. Open problems.
- Teacher: Vijay Kumar Krishnamurthy