[Forum SIS] ABS12- Summer school on STOCHASTIC MODELLING FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, Pavia, Italy

[Consonni Guido]

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             Applied Bayesian Statistics School

STOCHASTIC MODELLING FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

   September  3 - 7, 2012 - Pavia,  Italy


Lecturer

Professor  Darren WILKINSON
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Programme and registration details are available at

>>>>   www.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/abs12.html   <<<<

Interested people are invited to contact the ABS12 Secretariat at

                     abs12 at mi.imati.cnr.it

---------------- COURSE OUTLINE ---------------------------------------

This course will advocate a Bayesian approach to modelling 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 modelling. 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 emphasise 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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Guido Consonni and Fabrizio Ruggeri
ABS12 Directors






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