Instructor: M Thattai
Time: 1:30PM – 2:30PM
Duration of the course:
15th Feb 2011 to 28th Apr 2011
Days: Tue, Thu
Credits: 2 (Advanced)
Class Room: LH2 (Langra)
Course Outline:

Random numbers; probability distributions; Examples of stochastic processes: radioactive decay, Brownian motion; Markov chains; stochastic chemical reactions; Master equation; solution by generating functions; Fokker-Planck and Langevin descriptions; first-passage times in bistable systems; noise in gene networks. Prerequisites: Differential calculus and some linear algebra.

Course Term: Jan Term - 2011
Course Year: 2010/2011