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magnitude thinking as a tool for understanding the world. Examples
from the energy scale to form a spindle to the amount of poop created
per year by whales.</td>
<td>Exponential growth: numerical integration by forward Euler</td>
<td>TBA</td>
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<td>Day 2 (Wednesday, September 4th)</td>
<td>Stuff of t and biology’s unique laws of dynamics. Dynamical phenomena in both the nonliving and the living. The great principles of dynamics and their biological consequences. Biology’s unique answer to purposeful dynamics.</td>
<td>Cell growth rates: image analysis, regression</td>
<td>TBA</td>
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<td>Day 3 (Thursday, September 5th)</td>
<td>Making our guesses precise: null hypotheses. When guesses become probability distributions. The great distributions: binomial, Poisson, exponential and their important biological consequences.</td>
<td>Simulating diffusion, chemical master equations and coin flips, applications to FRAP experiments</td>
<td>TBA</td>
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<td>Day 4 (Friday, September 6th)</td>
<td>What is life? Various musings on the secret of life. Defiance as the secret of life. Biological batteries and paying for the processes of life. Setting up membrane gradients. Biological fidelity.</td>
<td>Gene expression and stochastic simulations: counting proteins through coin flips; Gillespie sampling</td>
<td>TBA</td>
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<td>Day 5 (Saturday, September 7th)</td>
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