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LECTURE N. 1 wed 28/2/2017 aula 2
Let me share a list of lemmas that might remind some passages of the discussion in the classroom.
-Biophysics of XXI century
-Physical Biology /Biological Physics
-Operational definition of living matter
-Deep learning + big data
-Computational / Non computational Processes (Roger Penrose, Brian D.Josephson)
-“law without law” (John A Wheeler, 1982)
-Bacterial Decision making as computation (Dennis Bray, Wetware)
-Active Matter
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LECTURE N.2 fri 02/03/2018 aula Careri 1st part
What is biophysics? (see e.g. Zhou2011.pdf/ BIOPH2018_L1.pdf)
Dedication to Enrico Gratton
2nd part
Representation of a system through a set of “states”:
Basic thermodynamic approach (notion of local equilibria)
Simple derivation of a master equation for the transition probabilities between states (detailed balance)
see Leonard Susskind’s lecture at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApUFtLCrU90&list=PLf3cQYSsXvsCW-HYbZDYLVXOodxD-QQb_
(see: Susskind & Hrabovsky, the theoretical minimum, chap.1)
HOMEWORK Essai: what is biophysics? By Tuesday night march the 6th