Introduction:
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If the present changes of a system depend on the state of the system in the past, its dynamics can be modelled as a differential equation with time delay, also known as a functional differential equation. Examples are the development of a population as a function of birth rates or the spread of an infectious disease as a function of infectivity. As indicated by the references below, both, theory and applications of delay equations have a great tradition but are also a subject of modern research. In this session we propose to focus on applicability to problems from biology, in particular the dynamics of populations of humans, animals, cells and, related to this, the spread of infectious diseases. |
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