Course information on "Statistical Physics of Biological Systems"

Schedule: Tuesday 9:30 - 10:45, Thursday 9:30 - 10:45

Room 349, Blng De Bartolo

Information about the course:

you can collect
25 % (midterm exam)
25 % (final exam)
25 % home assignments
25 % presenting a paper
100%

Grading: 55-65% ->D; 65-75%->C; 75-85% ->B; 85-100% ->A

Home assignments are expected to be given every other week

Your final scores and grades (for privacy reasons you are identified by a code sent to you in separate messages).

Resources:
My notes, which are quite extensive, but contain no figures, are available from (I intentionally do not give directly clickable links)

http://angel.elte.hu/~vicsek/old/biojegyzet.pdf

I present the figures during my lectures, but some of them can be found at

http://angel.elte.hu/~vicsek/old/biojegyzfigs.pdf

I plan to present the fractals part in more detail, using sections from these notes:

http://angel.elte.hu/~vicsek/old/fractaljegyzet.dvi

Figures are in

http://angel.elte.hu/~vicsek/old/fractaljegyz.pdf

In addition, you can download (but not distribute) shortened version of my (edited) book from:

http://angel.elte.hu/~vicsek/old/bookshort2.ps.gz

http://angel.elte.hu/~vicsek/old/bookshort2.pdf

Further resources:

Techniques of fractal geometry, Kenneth Falconer, Wiley, 1997 (a mathematical approach with stress on key ideas, not too formal treatment)

Fractal growth phenomena, Tamas Vicsek, World Scientific, 1992 (out of print, used ones could be obtained through amazon.com)

Fluctuations and Scaling in Biology, edited by Tamas Vicsek, Oxford Univ. Press, 2001

http://classes.yale.edu/Fractals/

http://angel.elte.hu/~vicsek/old/finalKura.pdf (first part, review of the Kuramoto modell - synchronization)

http://angel.elte.hu/~vicsek/old/bottani.pdf (nice paper on integrate and fire oscillators - synchronization)

http://angel.elte.hu/~vicsek/old/rmp.pdf (nice review of networks)