Announcing Field Computational Ecology course.
Information meeting Monday, October 20, 6pm in 1127 SEO
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Field Course in Computational Population Biology
Spring 2015 (with preparation starting in November 2014)
Instructors:
Tanya Berger-Wolf (UIC),
Daniel Rubenstein (Princeton),
Iain Couzin (Max Planck Institute)
A unique highly integrated field course is offered partially in Kenya (at the Mpala Research Centre) where biology and engineering students will work with faculty in both disciplines to learn how to ask questions, frame hypotheses and understand how and why the disciplines and cultures do this differently. The course will begin with background preparation in November-December where students learn the key concepts and approaches from biology, computer science and engineering. The initial interdisciplinary orientation will be followed by a research project in the field. The on-location course January 5-23 will be followed up throughout the semester culminating in a conference of student presentations.
Fall lectures will cover a range of topics in computer science and ecology:
*Introduction to population biology and ecology
*Behavioral ecology and social interactions
*Computational thinking
*Data science
*Network analysis
The 2012 course is available at
http://compbio.cs.uic.edu/~tanya/teaching/KenyaCourse.html
The course is appropriate for upper level undergraduate students.
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Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
compbio.cs.uic.edu/~tanya
tanyabw@uic.edu
