Parabolic Equations in Biology

Benoit Perthame is presently a Professor at the University Pierre et Marie Curie where he heads the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions. Before that he was a professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris where he begun to develop a research ideated to several aspects of mathematical biology: collective motion of cells, adaptation and evolution theory, modeling in tumor growth and therapy. Benoit Perthame was a plenary speaker at ICM Seoul, 2014.

1.Parabolic Equations in Biology.- 2.Relaxation, Perturbation and Entropy Methods.- 3.Weak Solutions of Parabolic Equations in whole Space.- 4.Traveling Waves.- 5.Spikes, Spots and Pulses.- 6.Blow-up and Extinction of Solutions.- 7.Linear Instability, Turing Instability and Pattern Formation.- 8.The Fokker-Planck Equation.- 9.From Jumps and Scattering to the Fokker-Planck Equation.- 10.Fast Reactions and the Stefan free Boundary Problem.

"This book presents a variety of phenomena arising in the analysis of partial differential equations modelling of biological, physical and chemical processes. ... This book can well serve as a textbook for a course on master's level. Exercise problems are given in each chapter." (Jonathan Zinsl, zbMATH 1333.35001, 2016)