Cours FdV

Mediator: Noah Hardy

FdV students preparing their presentation for an Interdisciplinary Fridays or a thematic workshop have the possibility to correct and prepare their talk and slides in advance with a specialist of Scientific English and receive personalized comments on their English. The same exercice will be proposed on the Students' presentation posters displayed at the CRI.

Mediator: Ray Horn (ALM Formation)

Duration: 2 days - March 19th and 20th
Minimum 5 maximum 15 participants

« Time is what those who refuse to organize it lack most. » (Ed. Spaicer)
This training course will enable you to make a personal assessment and to consider how to optimize the management of your time (from a professional and also from a personal perspective).

Objectives
- Identifying usual habits,
- Applying organization principles,
- Making a personal assessment and setting objectives in terms of evolution,
- Classifying priorities,
- Anticipating and appointing clearly.utilisation

Principles
- Dealing with the notion of «time budget»,
- Controlling and planning workload.
- Setting organizational strategies.

Program
- Tools for functional organization (initial and final personal assessment),
- Managing professional obligations (assessing the situation),
- Analyzing and programming optimizations.
- Individual experimentation through concrete situations.
- Individual time and shared time.

Mediator: Suzannah Rutherford, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle

Planning: 5 sessions of 2h - 31/10, 7/11, 28/11, 5/12 and 12/12/2011

Synopsis:
In this course we will review historical efforts to understand the difference between the living and the physical universes and how these ideas can be refined in light of current understanding. We will attempt as a class to build our own models of life, highlighting the ways in which the living systems in general and biology as a science in particular, are distinct from the physical universe and the science of physics.

Mediator: Tsvi Tlutsy (Weizmann Institute, Princeton Institute For Advanced Studies)

Dates: 4*3h - Friday May 4th, Wednesday May 9th, Friday May 11th, Monday May 14th

The concept of information is omnipresent in biology: information is stored in DNA, transmitted in a signaling pathway or along a neuron, and translated by the ribosome. In this short course, we will formalize and quantify these intuitive notions of biological information. We will start from the basic definitions of Shannon's information theory, which will be linked to statistical mechanics. We will then apply this framework to examine a variety of living information systems, starting from molecular channels, through neural networks, to population dynamics and evolution. Coherent discussion in terms of information theory reveals common principles of noisy living information systems which we will discussed.

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