Why did you choose FYS4715?
- To get enough study points
- Challenge
- Understand more about how physical laws restrict fundamental cell biology
- I do MSc in Biological physics and want a broader and deeper knowledge
- I like the intersection of subjects
- I was advised to
- A summer school at EMBL taught me that physics is used in a very wide range of biology. I wanted to learn more
- Biophysics and optics seem like two "useful" directions of physics and I want to learn more
What do you expect to get out of the course?
- To be provided with theoretical tools for further advanced experimental approaches for my PhD and life in general
- A physical explanation of some of my biology knowledge (not only what, but why)
- A practical use of my physics knowledge
- Get the ability to go between the different levels of study
- A better understanding of the links between physics, biology and chemistry, specifically areas concerning the brain.
- Being able to describe (and simulate) for example cell movement
- get new and deeper insight in physical explanations of biological processes
- visualization of biological processes
What have you learnt that is relevant for the course?
- Elementary physics and biology
- Some high school biology (cell biology, structure, metabolism)
- Basic university physics (stat. mech.)
- Health/radiation physics & medical physics
- computational neuroscience, how we can use electrical circuits to essentially model how current flows through and between neurons
- many-particle systems, e.g. using the Ising model
- Optics