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The dynamical degree is the exponential rate of the volume growth. The dynamical degree is one of the essential quantity to study of rational surface mappings. For example, a birational mapping on $mathhbb{P}^2$ is birationally equivalent to a rational surface automorphism if and only if the dynamical degree is a Salem number. For any given birational mapping $f$ on $mathhbb{P}^2$, it is known that we can always construct a modification whose action on $H^{2,2}$ gives the dynamical degree of $f$.
We will discuss how to construct such modifications and how to compute the dynamical degree of a given rational map.
The revolution of molecular biology in the early 1980s has revealed complex network of non-linear and stochastic biochemical interactions underlying biological systems. To understand this complex system, mathematical modeling has been widely used.
In this talk, I will introduce the typical process of applying mathematical models to biological systems including mathematical representation of biological systems, model fitting to data, analysis and simulations, and experimental validation. I will also describe our efforts to develop and integrate mathematical tools across the different steps of the modeling process. Finally, I will discuss the shortcomings of our present approach and how they point to the parts of current toolbox of mathematical biology that need further mathematical development.
The Ramsey number of a graph G is the minimum integer n for which every edge coloring of the complete graph on n vertices with two colors admits a monochromatic copy of G. It was first introduced in 1930 by Ramsey, who proved that the Ramsey number of complete graphs are finite, and applied it to a problem of formal logic. This fundamental result gave birth to the subfield of Combinatorics referred to as Ramsey theory which informally can be described as the study of problems that can be grouped under the common theme that “Every large system contains a large well-organized subsystem.”
In this talk, I will review the history of Ramsey numbers of graphs and discuss recent developments.