The Institute Colloquium: Understanding the behavior of complex chemical reaction net
Date
Monday, May 6, 2013 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker
Martin Feinberg (The Ohio State University)
Location
Raiffeisen Lecture Hall, Central Building
Series
Colloquium
Tags
Institute Colloquium
Contact
For reasons primarily rooted in biology, there is now a growing interest in connections between the structure of a chemical reaction network and the varieties of dynamical behavior the network might admit. In particular, there is an interest in understanding “design principles” that evolution might invoke to connect architectural features of a reaction network to the cell function the network is intended to implement. Over the past few decades, deep understanding of structure-behavior connections has begun to emerge. Although much of the underlying work is highly mathematical, it is wonderful that some of the deepest and most useful results can be stated in ways that are highly accessible to a wide variety of scientists. Some of those results will be discussed.