MATH2281 is a Mathematics Level II course. See the course overview below.

Units of credit: 6

Prerequisites: MATH1031(DN) or MATH1231 or MATH1241 or MATH1251.

Exclusions: MATH2280.

Cycle of offering: yearly in Semester 1.

Graduate attributes: the course will enhance your research, inquiry and analytical thinking abilities.

More information: this recent course handout (pdf) contains information about course objectives, assessment, course materials and the syllabus. (This pdf will usually be updated by the end of the first week of the semester.)

The Online Handbook entry contains up-to-date timetabling information.

If you are currently enrolled in MATH2281, you can log into the My eLearning Vista instance of this course.

As the means by which we can extract detailed information on biological systems have grown, so too has the demand to analyse this information. Repeated assays allow the dynamical nature of a biological system to be developed and this can lead to understanding of how the system can be kept healthy or altered. Mathematical modelling is ideally suited to this task and has played important roles in understanding how HIV overwhelms the immune system, whether a disease will spread through a community, or what the 3-dimensional structure will be for a bacterial population.

This course provides the basic tools for these types of investigations. It applies them to problems such as the interaction of HIV with the immune system, the spread of diseases through the community, pharmacodynamics, and management of renewable and non-renewable resources.