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Summer school ABS12 on STOCHASTIC MODELLING FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Event Dates: Monday September 03 - Friday September 07
City: Pavia State: International Country: Italy
Event Type: Short Courses	ASA Sponsored: No
Description:
Following the tradition (since 2004) of outstanding lecturers, the course at the ABS12 summer school will be given by Prof. Darren WILKINSON, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University, UK. This course will advocate a Bayesian approach to modeling and inference for dynamic stochastic models of biological systems. An introduction will be given to the theory of Markov processes in continuous time, and their application to biological modeling. Discrete state jump processes and associated diffusion approximations described by stochastic differential equations will be discussed, with a strong emphasis on algorithms and computer simulation. Also, Bayesian inference for hierarchical dynamic state-space models will be considered, together with Bayesian inference for stochastic differential equations. Particular emphasis will be placed on "likelihood free" methods of inference, including approximate Bayesian computation and particle MCMC algorithms. The course will emphasize model development, simulation and computationally intensive methods of inference based on realistic examples. The school will make use of lectures, practical sessions, software demonstrations, informal discussion sessions and presentations of research projects by school participants. The slides and background reading material will be distributed to the students before the start of the course.
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