THE ROLE OF STOCHASTICITY IN THE MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES

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General Information
Dates:
Monday, November 7, 2005 - Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Days of Week:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Target Audience:
Academic and Practice
Location:
Institute of Biomathematics, University of Urbino (Italy),
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Lecturers
Kevin Burrage, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Desmond J. Higham, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Topics
The role of noise in Biological processes with an emphasis on discrete and continuous stochastic modelling of genetic regulatory networks and the importance of spatial modelling in cellular kinetics. (Kevin Burrage)
Computational graph theory for clustering and ordering large datasets and for understanding connectivity structures. Use of random graph models to represent such datasets. A protein interaction network model. (Desmond J. Higham)
Optimization methods for statistical learning related to biology and genomic applications. (Sayan Mukherjee)