Kirill Korolev

Kirill Korolev

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Affiliation - Boston University

Title of Talk - Universality classes in traveling waves modeled by stochastic reaction-diffusion equations.

Event Link - https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99792332298?pwd=R1JXYmh2aGI1OUhuUzg5VFhuU0M0Zz09

Abstract

Reaction-diffusion waves describe diverse natural phenomena from crystal growth in physics to tumor growth in biology. Many aspects of these phenomena are stochastic because expanding entities---whether atoms or cells---are discrete. A quantitative description of fluctuations in growing populations remains an open problem. Recently, we have made significant progress in this direction by looking at physical processes through the lens of biology. I will show that expanding populations fall into one of three universality classes with very different physical and genetic properties. For example, genealogical trees have different structure, and fluctuations scale differently with the population density. Surprisingly, scaling exponents and many other properties can be computed exactly. On the biology side, our theory predicts that positive density-dependence in growth or dispersal could dramatically alter evolution in expanding populations even when its contribution to the expansion velocity is small. On the mathematics side, our work highlights potential pitfalls in the commonly-used method to approximate stochastic dynamics and shows how to avoid them.

 

Date And Time

Nov 29, 2022 04:00 PM
Mar 28, 2024
 

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