Unit ADVANCED TECHNIQUES
- Course
- Molecular and industrial biotechnology
- Study-unit Code
- 55A02112
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Paolo Foggi
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
BIOLOGICAL COMPLEX SYSTEMS
| Code | A003090 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Pier Luigi Gentili |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline chimiche |
| Academic discipline | CHIM/02 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian, English |
| Contents | Natural Complexity and Computational Complexity: connections. The living beings as examples of Complex Systems. Principles and techniques for investigating Complex Systems. |
| Reference texts | P. L. Gentili, “Untangling Complex Systems: A Grand Challenge for Science”, CRC Press, 2018, ISBN 9781466509429. |
| Educational objectives | The graduate students in Industrial and Molecular Biotechnology can learn the principles of Out-of-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Non-Linear Dynamics only in this course. The primary purpose of this course is to give the students the conceptual and methodological bases to face the analysis of Complex Systems and particularly the phenomenon of life. The central notions that must be learned by students are: • evolutive criteria of the biophysical and chemical systems that are out-of-equilibrium conditions; • self-organization; • deterministic chaos and fractal structures; • Natural and Computational Complexity. All these notions will allow students to: • know the physical and chemical properties of living beings; • have the paradigms and the computational techniques to investigate the behavior of living beings at the molecular and ecological levels; • appreciate the limits in predicting deterministic chaos; • characterize Fractal structures in living beings. |
| Prerequisites | Knowledge of Equilibrium Thermodynamics. |
| Teaching methods | The concepts proposed in this module will be taught through 42 hours of frontal lessons. During these lessons, the teacher will continuously test the learning process of students by making questions. The explanation of some subjects will be assisted by proposing videos and by computer simulations performed through software available online. |
| Other information | For elucidations, please get in touch with the teacher. |
| Learning verification modality | The acquisition of the course topics is tested through an oral exam with questions related to the subjects presented during the lectures. |
| Extended program | The subjects proposed are the following ones: 1) Introduction to Natural Complexity. Properties of the Complex Systems and living beings. 2) Deepened analysis of the II Law of Thermodynamics. 3) Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics. Flows and Forces. Linear and Non-Linear regimes. Entropy Production and evolution criteria for the out-of-equilibrium systems. 4) Linear analysis of the stability of the stationary states: stable and unstable stationary states, and oscillations. 5) Oscillatory biochemical reactions, chemical waves, Turing structures. Periodic Precipitations. 6) Bifurcations and deterministic Chaos. 7) Fractal structures. 8) Natural and Computational Complexities. Strategies to face the Complexity Challenges. |
SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES APPLIED
| Code | GP004122 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Paolo Foggi |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline chimiche |
| Academic discipline | CHIM/02 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |