The PhD course "Analysis and 
control of stochastic models of biomolecular interactions", taught by 
Dr. Ankit Gupta (Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH 
Zürich) will be hosted by Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in May 
17-20, 2022. Attending in person is strongly recommended, but other 
options are available if necessary. To register and for any question, 
please write to daniele.cappelletti@polito.it.

The course will deal with stochastic reaction network models, which are 
continuous time Markov chains commonly used to model biochemical 
dynamics within cells. Their theoretical and computational analysis is 
often quite challenging, and design of mathematical methods for their 
study is currently a very active research area. The goal of this course 
is to familiarize the students with a broad spectrum of these methods 
and illustrate them with several biological applications of current and 
lively interest in the research community. In particular, the following 
topics will be covered:

 1. Finite State Projection methods

 2. Moment Closure Schemes

 3. Simulation approaches

 4. Separation of Extrinsic and Intrinsic noise from biological data

 5. Design of intracellular controllers in living cells