Biofisica Teorica, Corso 2013 - Lezioni
	(LU 14-16 Amaldi & GI 16-18 Aula 5)

	Data		Argomento		Rif.
	30/9		Photon counting at the retina		Bialek
	3/10		Photon counting at the retina		Bialek
	7/10		Photon counting at the retina		Bialek
	10/10		Other counting problems with noise		Bialek
	14/10		Some lessons from random walks		[1]
	17/10		Some lessons from random walks		Bialek, [1]
	24/10		Some lessons from random walks		[1]
	28/10		Some lessons from random walks		[2]
	31/10		Two-state systems		Bialek
	4/11		Two-state systems		[3]
	14/11		Two-state systems		Bialek, [4]
	18/11		Two-state systems		Bialek
	21/11		Two-state systems		Bialek
	25/11		Chemotaxis		Bialek, [1], [5]
	28/11		Chemotaxis		Bialek, [1], [5]
	2/12		Finding targets		[6]
	5/12		Finding targets		[7], [8]
	9/12		Finding targets		[8]
	12/12		Optimal information flow		Bialek
	16/12		Optimal information flow		Bialek
	19/12		Optimal information flow		Bialek

	Riferimenti consigliati (in rosso per approfondimenti)
	Una buona parte del corso si basa su Biophysics: Searching for Principles di W. Bialek (anche qui). Tuttavia per alcuni argomenti utilizzeremo altre fonti, ad esempio
	[1] H. Berg, Random walks in biology (Princeton UP, 1993) [2] D. Chandler, Introduction to modern statistical mechanics (Oxford UP, 1987) [3] D. Beard and H. Qian, Chemical biophysics (Cambridge UP, 2008) [4] P. Nelson, Biological physics (Freeman & Co., 2004) [5] H. Berg and E.M. Purcell, Physics of chemoreception (pdf) [6] P.-G. de Gennes, Scaling concepts in polymer physics (Cornell UP, 1979) [7] B. Derrida, Random-energy model: An exactly solvable model of disordered systems (pdf) [8] U. Gerland, J. D. Moroz and T. Hwa, Physical constraints and functional characteristics of transcription factor–DNA interaction (pdf)