Statistical Methods in Biophysics

Lecturer:
Mattia Miotto (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Life Nano & Neuro Science @ Sapienza di Roma)

Board Contact:
Federico Fogolari

SSD: FIS/07

CFU: 3 CFU + assignment: 2 CFU

Period: 10/06/2024 – 14.00-17.00 // 11/06/2024 – 14.00-17.00 // 12/06/2024 – 14.00-17.00 // 13/06/2024 – 10.00-13.00

Lessons / Hours: 6 lectures, 12 hours

Program:

Why do we need statistical models? Noise and heterogeneity in biological systems (~2h)
How do we model biological systems? Rate Equations (~2h)
How do we model biological systems? Agent based models and spatial information/correlations (~2h)
Efficient representation, Entropy and Information (~2h)
Maximum Entropy principle and statistical inference (~4h)