Statistical Physics of Large Scale Inverse Problems Professor Riccardo Zecchina DA 114 Thu 5 November 2009 4:00 PMPhysics ColloquiumHost: Professor Ginestra BianconiWe will review some recent results in the statistical mechanics approaches to inverse problems and discuss applications in computational biology.
Specifically we will show how statistical physics algorithms for inverse Ising, Inverse Potts and for the identification of optimal connected sub-graphs of a given network can be used to unveil interactions in biological systems from large scale data (in neural circuits, in protein contacts and in cell signaling respectively.)