CDS 270-4, 2010: Bio-Control

	Bio-Control
	Spring 2010

Instructor: Elisa Franco Faculty sponsor: Richard M. Murray Lectures: OM on Monday, March 29, 3-4 PM, 110 Steele. Course Schedule Week Date Topic Reading 1 Introduction 29 Mar (M) {{ Course overview and objectives, class policies}} Syllabus Course Administration This course is a special topics course in which much of the lecture material has been prepared by a senior graduate student. The class is P/F only and there is no required homework and no midterm or final exam. Students will be required to work on an individual or team course project. Course Project Project proposals are due at 5pm on the last day of the Midterm examination period (May 4) and are due by 5pm on the last day of the final examination period (June 7). Project theme: select a cellular regulatory mechanism, define a list of important features of the system, come up with a modeling framework and carry out an analysis of its properties (e.g. stability, robustness, modularity...).