Lars Munck, prof. emeritus, Copenhagen University, Denmark, will give a talk on Friday 21st October on Modelling life experimentally and mathematically: how a deterministic, highly complex, reproducible individual can appear from a unique combination of hard and soft chemical reactions.
Time: 12.15 - 13.00
Place: UMB, Dept of Mathematical Sciences and Technology (IMT), Auditorium 210
Lars Munck is a well-known Swedish geneticist working at Copenhagen University/LIFE. He has published extensively on a wide range of topics. His work now focuses on the use of multichannel "fingerprinting" methods for high-speed quantitative phenotyping of biological samples, and on how to interpret such real-world data genetically.
His CIGENE talk will discuss the fundamental relationship between inductive, high-dimensional observation and deductive, concentrated model building, among other things.
Background: After having established and led a large research laboratory at Carlsberg Research Centre, he went on to found what became Europe's largest research group in multivariate data analysis in chemistry ("chemometrics") at Copenhagen University. He is still associated with this large, vibrant phenotyping research group, whose extensive open-source matlab library of multivariate data analysis tools can be found at http://www.models.life.ku.dk/.
