Dynamics of Biological Systems - Lecture 5

Dynamics of Biological Systems - Lecture 5

Explore the fifth lecture in a comprehensive summer course on the Dynamics of Biological Systems. Delve into how physics tools can explain complex living systems' behaviors, covering topics like predator-prey population oscillations, multi-species ecosystem chaos, and microscopic organism swimming. Learn to model and predict phenomena such as species competition, population catastrophes, bacterial motility, and collective behavior in fluidic environments using principles from nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics, and fluid dynamics. Gain insights into biological physics without requiring prior biological knowledge in this pedagogical lecture series aimed at undergraduate students.