BIOS-IN9010 – 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.

All applicants 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
• Documentation of your enrolment in a PhD program, and include confirmation that the summer school will be part of the training component of your PhD program. It is sufficient for your supervisor to state in their letter of support that the course is part of your curriculum.

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 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.

• Written project report.
• 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-IN5010 – Computational physiology.

Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester. The postponed exam can be taken later when back in Norway. Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass the original examination.

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: INF9560 and BIOS-IN5010 – Computational physiology