Please join us for Math Club this week at its usual time (Wednesday 5:30-6:30) and place (LGRT 1634). This week, William Hu will speak on, “Modeling and Simulating Chemical Reactions” (abstract below). As always, pizza and soda will be provided.
Abstract:
Many people are familiar with the idea of modeling chemical reactions in terms of ordinary differential equations. However, these deterministic reaction rate equations are really a certain large-scale limit of a sequence of finer-scale probabilistic models. In studying this hierarchy of models, we can be exposed to a range of modern ideas in applied and computational mathematics. This talk introduces some of the basic concepts in an accessible manner and points to some challenges that currently occupy researchers in this area.
Key words: chemical master equation, chemical Langevin, Euler–Maruyama,
Gillespie, kinetic Monte Carlo, reaction rate equation, stochastic simulation algorithm, stoichiometric vector, tau-leaping
Gillespie, kinetic Monte Carlo, reaction rate equation, stochastic simulation algorithm, stoichiometric vector, tau-leaping