Lectures related to Biophysics I: Crowding and Depletion Interaction

Biophysics: Cellular Systems and Physical Principles

Explores biophysics, focusing on physical principles in cellular systems and the nature of living systems, cells, and bacteria.

Proteins and Cooperativity in Ligand Binding Models

Explores statistical mechanics models for ligand binding with cooperativity in proteins like hemoglobin and myoglobin.

Molecular dynamics under constraints

Explores molecular dynamics simulations under holonomic constraints, focusing on numerical integration and algorithm formulation.

Chemical Equilibria and Reactivity

Covers the concepts of energy types, entropy, second principle, and Gibbs free energy.

Statistical Physics: Isolated Systems and Entropy

Covers statistical physics, isolated systems, entropy, and the Boltzmann distribution.

Statistical Definition of Entropy: Adatoms and Mixing

Explores the statistical definition of entropy, adatoms on a surface, and mixing in a solid solution.

Quantum to Classical Mechanics: Fundamentals

Covers the transition from quantum to classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, Monte Carlo simulations, and molecular dynamics simulations.

Statistical Mechanics: Fundamentals

Covers the fundamentals of statistical mechanics, including system parameters, variables, and thermal equilibrium.

Imaginary-Time Path Integrals

Covers Imaginary-Time Path Integrals, classical and quantum systems, convergence in simulations, and integration schemes for molecular dynamics.

Statistical Mechanics: Microscopic-Macroscopic Systems

Explores the link between microscopic and macroscopic systems, ensembles, probability distributions, entropy, and energy distribution.

Euclidean Path Integrals: Harmonic Oscillator

Explores the Euclidean path integral formalism, with a focus on the harmonic oscillator.

Euclidean Path Integrals: Thermal Partition Function

Covers Euclidean path integrals and the thermal partition function in Quantum Field Theory.

Statistical Physics of Clusters

Explores the statistical physics of clusters, focusing on complexity and equilibrium behavior.

Mechanosensitive Ion Channels: Statistical Mechanics Models

Explores statistical mechanics models for mechanosensitive ion channels and proteins, including amino acid sequences and biophysical models.

Introduction to Thermodynamics

Covers the fundamentals of classical physics, emphasizing energy transformations in systems through gas laws, work, heat, and the laws of thermodynamics.

Gibbs Entropy: Definition and Partition Function

Explains Gibbs entropy and its role in the partition function of physical systems.

Statistical Definition of Entropy: Microstates and Macrostates

Covers microstates, macrostates, entropy, and density of states in statistical mechanics.

Variational Methods in Statistical Physics

Explores variational methods in statistical physics and the Bethe Parisi Mézard approach.

Biophysics: Molecular Crowding Effects

Delves into the effects of molecular crowding on cellular processes.

Curie Weiss Model

Covers the Curie-Weiss model in Statistical Physics, including magnetization probability, free entropy, and the cavity method.