Schedule


Week 1

DayTimeEvent
Monday8:30-10:00 Lecture 1 - Stetefeld 1 - Introduction to protein structure
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Lecture 2 - Newby 1 - Brownian motion: physics, mathematics and history
12:00-13:00 Project - Presentation of project topics and groups
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Lecture 3 - Cytrynbaum 1 - Conservation laws: compartment models, diffusion-advection equations
15:30-17:00 Lecture 4 - Madzvamuse 1 - Analysis of reaction-diffusion systems on stationary domains
18:30-19:30 Dinner
19:30-21:00 Project
Tuesday8:30-10:00 Lecture 5 - Lin 1 - Cell migration - experiments
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Lecture 6 - Newby 2 - Stochastic differential equations
12:00-13:00 Project
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Lecture 7 - Cytrynbaum 2 - Stochastic models for simple reactions and the Kolmogorov Forward Equation
15:30-17:00 Lecture 8 - Madzvamuse 2 - Numerical methods for reaction-diffusion system on stationary domains
18:30-19:30 Dinner
19:30-21:00 Project
Wednesday8:30-10:00 Lecture 9 - McKenna 1 - Introduction to DNA - RNA
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Lecture 10 - Newby 3 - State space models: bayesian methods and applications to tracking in cells
12:00-13:00 Project
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Lecture 11 - Cytrynbaum 3 - Stochastic and deterministic models of cytoskeleton polymers
15:30-17:00 Lecture 12 - DNA and cancer
18:30-19:30 Dinner
19:30-21:00 Project
Thursday8:30-10:00 Lecture 13 - Chan 1 - Introduction to cancer biology
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Lecture 14 - Liao 1 - Parameter Estimation
12:00-13:00 Project
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Lecture 15 - Ferrari 1 - Introduction to graph theory
15:30-17:00 Lecture 16 - Soteros 1 - Introduction to polymer modelling and some Monte Carlo methods
18:30-19:30 Dinner
19:30-21:00 Project
Friday8:30-10:00 Lecture 17 - Ferrari 2 - Graph theory concepts and applications to cancer
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Lecture 18 - Soteros 2 - Using polymer models to explore DNA topology questions
12:00-13:00 Project
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Lecture 19 - Madzvamuse 3 - High performance numerical methods for PDEs
15:30-17:00 Project
18:30-19:30 Dinner
19:30-21:00 Project
SaturdayAll Day Project
SundayAll Day Project

Week 2

DayTimeEvent
Monday8:30-10:00 Lecture 20 - Dao Duc 1 - Metrics statistics and dimensionality reduction methods for biological shape analysis - Part 1 (Wenjun Zhao)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Lecture 21 - Hillen 1 - Transport equations in biology
12:00-13:00 Project
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Lecture 22 - Liao 2 - Evolutionary algorithms
15:30-17:00 Project
18:30-19:30 Dinner
19:30-21:00 Project
Tuesday8:30-10:00 Lecture 23 - Dao Duc 2 - Metrics statistics and dimensionality reduction methods for biological shape analysis - Part 2
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Lecture 24 - Hillen 2 - Anisotropic diffusion
12:00-13:00 Project
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Lecture 25 - Liao 3 - Identifiability
15:30-17:00 Project
18:30-19:30 Dinner
19:30-21:00 Project
Wednesday8:30-10:00 Lecture 26 - Stetefeld 2 - Introduction to cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and tomography (cryo-ET)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Lecture 27 - Dao Duc 3 - Introduction to Optimal Transport Wasserstein metrics and application to protein and cell shapes
12:00-13:00 Project
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Lecture 28 - Hillen 3 - Modelling of glioma with anisotropic diffusion
15:30-17:00 Project
18:30-19:30 Dinner
19:30-21:00 Project
Thursday8:30-10:00 Project
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Project
12:00-13:00 Project
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Project
15:30-17:00 Project
18:30-19:30 Dinner
19:30-21:00 Project - Submission of project reports
Friday8:30-10:00 Presentation of projects
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Presentation of projects
12:00-13:00 Presentation of projects
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 De-brief
15:30-17:00 Closing remarks
SaturdayAll Day Departure