Schedule Fall 2016

Monday Evenings 7:15-9:15 (to accommodate PVTA bus schedule)

Week Date Plan
1   Bass 103 9-12

9-14

Intro to Biomathematics: 10 minutes
Intro to Frontiers Course:
Structure and expectations: 10 minutes
Begin Matlab Introduction
Derek Wood (UMass, Physics)
2  Bass 103 9-19

9-21

Matlab – Derek Wood (UMass, Physics)
Matlab
3  Bass 103 9-26
9-28
Matlab
4  Bass 103 10-5
10-7
Matlab
Matlab
5  Ford 240  10-17 Mining Big Data in Infectious Disesase Outbreaks
Rob Dorit (Smith College, Biology), Benjamin Baumer (Smith College, Statistical and Data Sciences), Dylan Shepardson (Mount Holyoke College, Mathematics and Statistics)
6  Ford 240 10-24 Mining Big Data in Infectious Disease Outbreak
7  Ford 240 10-31 Mining Big Data in Infectious Disease Outbreak
8  Ford 240 11-7 Mining Big Data in Infectious Disease Outbreak
Student presentations Module 1, Biomath Fellows Presentations
9 Ford 240 11-14  Simulating Microtubule Organization

Jennifer Ross, Vikrant Yadav, UMass

10 Ford 240 11-21  Thanksgiving break
11 Ford 240 11-28 Simulating Microtubule Self-Organization
12 Ford 240 12 – 5 Simulating Microtubule Self-Organization
13 Ford 240 12 – 12 Simulating Microtubule Self-Organization
Student presentations Module 2