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                SEMINAR OF THE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS GROUP
        Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
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                  STUDYNIG DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS WITH MLAB:
        AN ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL MODEL SYSTEM"

                        GARY KNOTT 
                  Civilized Software, Inc.
                        Bethesda, MD

Topics in dynamic systems will be presented in a computational context.
Stability and stiffness will be discussed via the Belusov-Zhabotinsky
oscillating chemical reactions model. The computation of Poincare 
sections will be discussed. Other examples, including the Hodgkin-Huxley
nerve-axon differential model and electric circuit dynamics will be 
reviewed.  Computations will be done with the MLAB software.

MLAB is an advanced mathematical and statistical modeling system originally
developed at the NIH. MLAB has over 400 built-in functions applicable to a
wide variety of data analysis and experimental mathematical problems in the
sciences. It runs on PCs, Macintoshes, and UNIX systems, including NeXTstep.

MLAB is particularly suitable for mathematical and statistical computation 
in a wide area of application areas. MLAB has been used for modeling and
model-fitiing problems such as multiple site ligand binding analysis, 
chemical kinetics and pharmacological compartmental analysis, drug 
combination analysis, spectral analysis via the SVD method, 
delta-modulation data compression, charged particle configurations, 
statistical test power computations, Voronoi diagrams and spatial 
statistics, and ultracentrifuge data analysis. MLAB has powerful 
facilities for solving and curve-fitting systems of ordinary differential 
equations.

                        Monday , 3 October 1994
                                5:30 pm
                        Room 310, Science & Tech. I

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