Biological approaches in chemical engineering are increasingly characterized by systems-level treatment of biological systems and the use of synthetic systems under complex control. Issues such as network size, network cross-talk, and parameter sloppiness can cause significant problems in both numerical analyses and biological interpretation that must be addressed. This session invites contributions that apply existing numerical methods to systems and synthetic biology problems, as well as contributions that identify unique numerical problems that arise in such biological systems and address them with novel approaches.

Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis