Lecture:

Tuesdays, 10am - 12pm, room M4
Fridays, 10am - 12pm, room M4

Lecturer: 

Prof. Dr. Gerold Alsmeyer

Assistance: 

Christopher Eick

QISPOS:

The course in the course catalogue
The tutorial in the course catalogue

Course syllabus:

The purpose of this course, which will be held in English, is to give an introduction of some fundamental stochastic models and processes in Mathematical Biology and Population Genetics. A major part will focus on the theory of branching processes, other topics are the Wright-Fisher model and the Kingman coalescent. Prerequisites for this course are Stochastik and Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie including some basic knowledge of martingales and Markov chains.

Learnweb:

The corresponding Learnweb course can be found here. The key is: MMIDB

Course assessment:

There will be an oral exam at the end of the course. Admission to the oral exam is conditional on obtaining at least 40% of the points of the problem sets.

Tutorial:

Wednesdays, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr, room SRZ 205, box 146

Problem sets:

The problem sets can be found in the Learnweb course.