Yixian Song

Yixian's wide face

Personal Nature

• Physicist.
• Grown up in northeastern China.
• Studied in Shanghai.
• Wrote diploma thesis about the dynamism of many-body

systems at Philipps University of Marburg.

• Working on PhD thesis, briefly sexual and asexual reproduction

with ecological constraints, at [http://www.fkp.tu-

darmstadt.de/groups/index.de.jsp Darmstadt University of

Technology] with supervisions of [http://www.fkp.tu-

darmstadt.de/groups/ag_drossel/drp/ Barbara Drossel] and

Stefan Scheu.

Really Personal

• Can communicate in German, in English and certainly also in

Chinese.

• Could be a little overexcited among new friends in new

evironments, but always trying hard to behave. So don't worry!

• Favorite song, currently, "Burning" of The Whitest Boy Alive.

Personal greeting words

"Hello everybody, I am truly looking forward to meeting you all at

St. John's College! We will have an amazing time together!"

Personal Answers to Professor Dan's Questions

What are your main interests?

• Topics in evolutionary biology especially the origin of sex, the

maintenance of sex and also the theory of life history.

• Mathematical modelling of population dynamics under

ecological considerations.

• Structure and dynamics of social networks.

What sort of expertise can you bring to the group?

Statistics, nonlinear dynamics and computer simulation with

C++.

What do you hope to get out of the CSSS?

• Broad overview and outlook of complex systems researches.
• Alternatives of computational techniques and methods.
• Experience of intercultual teamwork

Besides, I have been wondering if there is a hope to crack

sufficient genetic codes to offer the processe of human evolution a

good statistic. I hope I could figure the answer out. ====Do you have any possible projects in mind for the CSSS?

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Yes. In the context of bacterial transformation, it may be

interested to estimate the critical virulence of a virus from which

the virus can drive a bacterial population til extinction, in

consideration of the initial population size of bacteria and

nutritional limitation.