Speaker: Will Heuett, Applied Mathematics
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Date: Thursday, February 3, 2005
Time: 3:30 - 4:20pm
Place: Guggenheim Room 408d
Abstract: It has been observed that blood testosterone levels in men oscillate with a period of 2 to 3 hours. One simple, deterministic model was proposed to describe this phenomenon, but it was recently proved that the model has a globally stable fixed point. Therefore, the deterministic model cannot observe oscillations. We will take a closer look at this model from a different physical basis in which intrinsic fluctuations are considered. It turns out that sustained oscillations do arise in the continuous-time, discrete-state stochastic model.
Everyone welcome!