Prof. Sergio Rinaldi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) visited the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, June 16-18 1998, reported by Bob Kooi.
During his stay with the Theoretical Biology group Sergio discussed problems of common interest: the food chain dynamics Martin Boer is finishing his PhD-thesis on this subject. Sergio links nonlinear dynamics with (more classical) control theory and showed us that often more insight can be gained from this point of view.
On June 17 1998 there was a Mini-symposium on `Population Dynamics'
with five lectures: Sergio Rinaldi, Bob Kooi, Peter de Ruiter,
Anje-Margriet Neutel and Hugo van den Berg. The summaries of the
talks were given in the previous Newsletter May 15, 1998. One
reference given in Rinaldi's summary was incomplete, it should be: A.
Gragnani, O. De Feo, and S. Rinaldi. "Food chains in the chemostat:
relationships between mean yield and complex dynamics", Bulletin of
Mathematical Biology, 60, 703-719, 1998.
Martin Boer was unable to
give his talk entitled: "The dynamics of tri-trophic food chains".
A talk was given by Bob Kooi.