Mathematical biology is an expanding area in applied mathematics. Recently the speed of the expansion has been tremendously accelerated with AI and data science.
In this course, we will cover the classical/recent problems and approaches in the field of mathematical biology including model-driven and data-driven methods.
As the barriers between pure and applied math are vanishing, we believe that this course would give inspiration to students who pursue research as pure/applied mathematicians, theoretical biologists, and theoretical medical scientists in the future.

수리생물학의 과거와 최신 연구 동향, 그리고 관련된 수학적 접근법을 다루려 한다.
아직 포스텍 수학과에서 자세하게 다루어지진 않은 응용수학의 하나의 큰 축이 된 수리생물학을 학생들에게 큰 흐름부터 세부사항까지 자세하게 소개하기 위해 이 강의를 개설하고자 한다.
또한 최근 수리생물학에 사용되는 수리적 접근법의 범위가 방대해지고 있어 현재 대학원생들이 연구하는 방법론이 추후 연결될 가능성이 크다.
이에 수리생물학에 어떠한 수학이 어떠한 목적으로 사용되는지를 구체적으로 접한다면 수강생들의 미래 연구 방향에 큰 영감을 줄 가능성이 크다고 판단하여 수업을 개설 함.

Calculus.
Ordinary differential equations.
Probability (Required but not mandatory)
Statistics (Required but not mandatory)

- Read papers and present the summary of the papers (twice during the semester, 50%)
- Final presentation (Any problem or issues related to math bio that the presenter can attack in the future, 50%)

September: High-level introduction to mathematical biology. Discuss inspiring papers that the instructor will select. Talk about what model-driven and data-driven methods are. See which methods are used in mathematical biology (ODE, PDE, Markov Chains, Statistical methods, AI-based methods, etc)
October: Read papers and present the summary of the papers (by students)
November-December: Learning useful skills for mathematical biology: ODEs and Markov chains.

-No homework.
-No exam.
-Grade is based on: 1. how much the student participated in the lecture with questions and comments, 2. short presentations about the summary of a paper (student can pick a paper and the instructor will recommend otherwise), and
3. Final presentation.

- For the last two months, the lecture is discussion based.
- For the first two months, the lecture is focusing on learning relevant skills.