Grade: The course grade will be determined from assignment and project grades in the following proportion:

Assignments	70%
Project (written part)	15%
Project (presentation)	15%

Project: Part of the course grade will be determined from a semester project consisting of both written and oral parts.

Subject Material: You have a choice of two styles for a project:

1) a survey of some area of Mathematical Biology. The topic need not relate to physiology. For example, epidemiology, population dynamics and cellular locomotion are not addressed in this course but each would be a suitable area. For this choice, the list of references should be more substantial.

2) a detailed analysis of a recent model describing some biological system. For this choice you should address any correlations between experiments and the model and analysis and the experiments. Creative initiative in this type of project will be encouraged.

All topics must be approved by me. About half way through the semester I would suggest that you meet individually with me to discuss your interests so that I might give you some suggestions about how to proceed.

Written Part

Should include an Abstract, Introduction, Main Body, Discussion and Bibliography. The Discussion should include a critique of the mathematical methods and/or models reviewed in the main body. The paper should be no less than 10 (typed) pages. I would prefer that LaTeX or TeX be used. Due Date: TBA

Oral Part

At the end of the semester after you have submitted a final draft of the written part of the project, you will give a short (15-30min TBA) presentation of your project to the class. The oral presentations will be scheduled during the Final exam week.

Text ``A Textbook on Mathematical Physiology'',J. Keener, J. Sneyd.