Physics
756 Sepcial Topics in Biophysics
2015
Dr Paul Higgs
Percolation etc
Powerpoint slides on percolation: PPT
Powerpoint slides on growth models: PPT
Berkowitz and Ewing 1998 - Percolation theory and Network modelling applications in soil physics
Quasispecies
Notes on Quasispecies
Eigen et al Quasispecies Theory
Bull et al Quasispecies made simple
Harris & Chen Review of Quasispecies and Hypercycles
Game Theory
Game Theory Lecture notes
Cooperation Lecture Notes
Five Rules about evolution of cooperation (Nowak)
Cooperation in the RNA World (Higgs)
Schedule for Presentations
Tue 10th March -
(a)
Michael - Evolutionary stability of minimal mutation rates - Birch2015
(b)
Gordon - Reed-Frost model of epidemics - Fox1971
Fri 13th March -
(a)
Markus - Genetic drift in an expanding population
(b)
Rick - Growth of amyloid fibrils
Tue 17th March -
(a)
Solomon - Evolution in a changing environment - adaptive evolution
(b)
Adam - Plaque formation
Fri 20th March -
(a)
Raphael - Learning v. Evolutionary strategies in the War of Attrition
Miscellaneous Papers
Drossel
and Schwabl 1992 -
Self-organized critical forest-fire model
Useful Textbooks
D Stauffer and A Aharony - Introduction to percolation theory
A Bunde and S Havlin - Fractals and Disordered systems
M Newman, A. Barabasi and D. J.
Watts. 2006. - The
Structure and Dynamics of Networks.