BIOS-IN5010 – Computational physiology

Through this course you will:

• gain a fundamental understanding of cardiac physiology
• understand the derivation and common implementation strategies for describing chemical, physical and biological processes with mathematics
• be introduced to both the principles and practice of relevant numerical methods and computational tools for modeling cardiac physiology.

Admission to BIOS-IN5010 is a twostep process.

1. Students admitted to a master’s program at UiO must register for the exam for this course and register as a student at UiO in Studentweb and pay the semester fee before the deadline February 1st.

Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may apply to take this course as a single course student before the deadline December 15th

and register for the exam for this course and register as a student at UiO in Studentweb and pay the semester fee before the deadline February 1st.

1. All applicants also have to apply for admission at Simula: www.simula.no/sscp/application before the deadline February 14th.

As part of your application, you will be asked to upload the following documents:

• A current résumé or CV
• A cover letter
• A letter of support from a mentor or advisor
• Your university transcripts

Students will be notified once the admission process is completed in early March.

20 students can be admitted to BIOS-IN5010 and BIOS-IN9010. The program is designed for early PhD and late MSc students.

The courses BIOS-IN5010 and BIOS-IN9010 have joint admission. Applicants are ranked by the following criteria:

1) Academic performance

2) Relevance of study plan/research to the course subject matter

3) Recommendation from advisor (specifying how the course work will be helpful to the research)

4) Cover letter of student (specific reasons why this course will be relevant and interesting to them)

PhD students are generally given preference over MSc students. However, the highest priority is accorded to applicants from the three partner institutions (UiO, Simula, UC San Diego), followed by those from Norwegian institutions seeking academic credits.

Interested students are strongly encouraged to familiarize themselves with the course content and requirements, before preparing their application. This information can be found here: https://www.simula.no/education/courses/simula-summer-school-computational-physiology.

Fundamental knowledge of ordinary differential equations and their numerical solution, corresponding to IN1900 – Introduction to Programming with Scientific Applications and MAT-INF1100 – Modelling and Computations (discontinued) or equivalent. It is also useful to have a basic knowledge of partial differential equations, corresponding to the introductory parts of MAT3360 – Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, or similar.

Formal coding experience is important and used heavily during the course. We offer an introductory Python workshop the Sunday evening before the course starts, and any student without substantial Python experience should expect to take that workshop.

• Oral presentation of project report

All mandatory assignments must be approved prior to the exam and must be completed and approved in the same semester.

It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses:INF5560 – Computational Physiology (continued), INF9560, BIOS-IN9010 – Computational Physiology.