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    PolyU-PDE distinguished lecture series : structured equations in biology; relative entropy, monge-kantorovich distance

    PolyU-PDE distinguished lecture series : structured equations in biology; relative entropy, monge-kantorovich distance

    Models arising in biology are often written in terms of Ordinary Differential Equations. The celebrated paper of Kermack-McKendrick (19271, founding mathematical epidemiology, showed the necessity to include parameters in order to describe the state of the individuals, as time elapsed after infection. During the 70s, many mathematical studies were developed when equations are structured by age, size, more generally a physiological trait. The renewal, growth-fragmentation are the more standard equations. The talk will present structured equations, show that a universal generalized relative entropy structure is available in the linear case, which imposes relaxation to a steady state under non-degeneracy conditions. In the nonlinear cases, it might be that periodic solutions occur, which can be interpreted in biological terms, e.g., as network activity in the neuroscience. When the equations are conservation laws, a variant of the Monge-Kantorovich distance (called Fortet-Mourier distance) also gives a general non-expansion property of solutions.
    Event date: 19/1/2023
    Speaker: Prof. Benoît Perthame (Sorbonne University)
    Hosted by: Department of Applied Mathematics

    Subjects:
    Biology and Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Biomathematics Equations
    Resource Type:
    Video