Math 260 - Integrative Seminar (Spring 2008)
Course Syllabus PDF
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In an attempt to keep these pages cleaner and more organized, I've started separate pages
for the questions from each week. The links are below.
2/22/08 - Excellent in-class discussion this week! Keep up the good work. (JAP)
2/29/08 - Good job again today guys! And, very good work on the wiki over the last week. (JAP)
3/5/08 - Note, small change with the Cipra article. For now, we'll stick with only reading section one.
I've posted a reading for next week that gives an even more elementary introduction to the Ising model. (JAP)
3/14/08 - Feels like we are rolling...good work! (JAP)
3/24/08 - Sorry for the delay in updating, holiday and such... (JAP)
4/8/08 - Didn't get much done during spring break... doing a little updating today. No questions
for this week, just things to think and talk about. (JAP)
4/14/08 - Ok, back to work! (JAP)
Readings for the Course
- Week One - Collins and Keller: "Tuning lipid mixtures to induce or suppress domain formation across leaflets of unsupported asymmetric bilayers," PNAS, v. 105, 1, pp. 124-128.
- Week Two - Cipra: "An Introduction to the Ising Model," American Mathematical Monthly, v. 94,10, pp. 937-959.
- Week Four - Hayes: "The World in a Spin," American Scientist, v. 88, 5, pp. 384-388.
- Week Five - Yethiraj and Weisshaar: "Why are lipid rafts not observed in vivo?" Biophysical Journal, v. 93, pp. 3113-3119, 2007.
Supplemental Readings
Here I will list supplementary material that may be of use to you as we read various articles
throughout the semester. Feel free to add your own material here.
- Essential Cell Biology, Alberts et. al., Chapter 11. This has a great description of cell membranes.
- Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Israelachvili, Chapter 17. A higher level introduction to membranes.
- Brush: "History of the Lenz-Ising Model," Reviews of Modern Physics, v. 39, #4, pp. 883-893.
- Below is a video showing phase separation of lipids in a giant lipid vessicle
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