Thursday 24 October 2024 at 5:30 pm, for the cycle "Please Don't Delete: Math Dialogues", Prof. Mimmo Iannelli will give a talk titled One hundred years of Biomathematics: a pathway along the path traced by Volterra and Lotka.
The meeting will take place at the University Library Headquarters - U6 Building Agorà (Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milan) University of Milan-Bicocca and will be introduced by Prof. Gianmario Tessitore, Director of the Department.
Abstract: A few years ago, the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology celebrated 2018 as the centenary of the birth of Biomathematics. At the time, it was decided that the birth of the discipline could be identified with the publication of the monograph ‘On Growth and Form’ by D'Arcy Thompson in 1917. In the essay, biological morphology was discussed on the basis of mathematical transformations. One hundred years since then, the interaction between Mathematics and Biology has undergone such a varied development that it is difficult to say today what Biomathematics is. In this talk I will therefore follow a particular track, which begins with the approach and insights of Volterra and Lotka in the field of Population Dynamics, where Mathematics and Biology interacted successfully and to mutual benefit. For a century, the mathematical approach of Population Dynamics has shaped the development of fields such as Ecology, Epidemiology, Cytology and Immunology. Nowadays, mathematical modelling is the common ground where the joint labours of Mathematics and Biology take place.
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