Saturday the 15th - Saturday the 22nd of September, 2007

University of Oulu

 

8 credits (4 study weeks in the old system)

A graduate course organized by:
- Department of Physical Sciences, Biophysics, at University of Oulu,
- The Finnish Graduate School of Neuroscience (FGSN) and
- The International Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (iBioMEP).

Timetable:

Contact teaching during the third week of September (15-22). Self-study and projects during Autumn 2007.

Teachers:

Prof. A.S. French, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada;
Prof. Matti Weckström, University of Oulu, Dept. of Physical Sciences, Division of Biophysics.

Material:

The course-book: Marmarelis, V.Z., Nonlinear Dynamic Modelling of Physiological Systems, Wiley, 2004. Its older version by two Marmarelis' ("Analysis of Physiological Systems: The white noise approach", 1978) is also useful but necessarily outdated.

- Lectures will be available as ppt-pdf:s.
- Analysis software for non-linear analysis will be made available
- All material will be downloadable from a web-site (announced later)

Teaching:

A series if lectures by prof. French and prof. Weckström will be given (densely) during two-three days (depending on the participants' wishes). Some material will be required for self-guided studies, but tutoring will be offered on request.

Topics covered (partial):

Input-output systems, Stationarity and ergodicity, linearity, time-invariance, power-spectrum and cross-spectrum, transfer function and its determination, coherence, dead-time systems, Volterra and Wiener kernels, non-linear analysing methods, dynamic and static non-linearities, Bendat's method, Korenberg's parallel cascade method, orthogonal polynomial methods, examples of analysing problems and their solutions.

Passing and grading:

There is no traditional examination, but instead the students are given two sets of data, which they have to analyse as directed. The final grading (1-5) will be based on the average of the two reports on the analyses.

Inquiries and enrolment:

Matti Weckstrom MD PhD
professor of biophysics
Department of Physical Sciences
Division of Biophysics
University of Oulu PO Box 3000
90014 Oulun yliopisto, Finland
phone (office) +358-8-553 1125
mobile +358-40-5561 422
email: matti.weckstrom@oulu.fi