Course announcement for Fall 2006
  
MAP 5485 Introduction to Mathematical Biophysics TR 12:30-1:45
Professor J. R. Quine
  
Course topics:  rotation matrices, Euclidean motions, lattices,
crystallographic groups, continuous and discrete curves in space,
torsion angles, distance geometry, fourier series, force fields,
Boltzmann statistics, simulated annealing, programming using a symbolic
mathematical package (Maple).  Applications such as: protein secondary
structure, structure determination by crystallography and NMR, writhing
twisting and knotting of DNA, energy minimization, lattice models of
protein folding, analysis of protein database files.

Prerequisites: Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra (theory of
matrices)

Some programming will be required using the mathematical computation
package Maple, and part of the grade will be a programming project.
The basics of Maple will be covered in the course, but it is useful to
have programming experience in some language.

The course was offered in Fall 2005.  The website for that offering can
be found at

http://www.math.fsu.edu/~quine/IntroMathBio_05/index.htm

Students from Statistics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, and Molcular
Biology are welcome to take the course.  This course can be taken under
the S/U option or for variable hours.



For answers to any questions about the course, please contact me,
quine@math.fsu.edu.

Jack Quine

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Jack Quine
Charles W. McArthur Professor
Department of Mathematics
The Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510
Office: 114 LOV, 850-644-6050
fax:  850-644-4053