Stochastic Modeling in Biology

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Markov processes, random walks, martingales, branching processes, logistic growth model, Wright-Fisher model, Kingman's coalescent, bound and site percolations, contact processes, voter models. Students should have previously taken course work in probability and/or stochastic processes (or have a recommendation from their advisor). Recommendation from advisor is typically for students in biology or physics that have not taken statistics courses but have a good background in mathematics.