BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Alan Garfinkel (University of California\, Los Angeles) DTSTART:20231010T160000Z DTEND:20231010T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260423T004734Z UID:ESME/28 DESCRIPTION:Title: Te aching Dynamics to Biology Undergrads\nby Alan Garfinkel (University o f California\, Los Angeles) as part of Online Seminar On Undergraduate Mat hematics Education\n\n\nAbstract\nThere is a need to reform how we introdu ce math to beginning students in Life Science. The usual “Calculus for L ife Sciences”\, which is a watered down version of Calculus I\, possibly including some trivial biological examples\, has failed to inspire studen ts. Even worse\, the math gateway courses into the life sciences serve as powerful filters keeping women and under-represented minorities out of the life sciences and medicine. We designed such a course\, and are currently teaching it to ~2000 students/year. The course introduces students\, on d ay 1\, to the concept of modeling a system that has multiple interacting v ariables and nonlinear relations. The student quickly learns that models g ive rise to ‘change equations’ and that these differential equations c an always be “solved” (that is\, simulated numerically) using Euler’ s method. They learn to program their own code for Euler’s method in a P ython-like environment. Throughout\, there is an emphasis on biological ap plications of these concepts\, such as feedback behaviors in physiology an d ecology\, oscillations in insulin and glucose levels and in biological p opulations.\n\nFor more information on OLSUME: https://olsume.org/\nZoom l ink: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/92415199317\, passcode olsume\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/ESME/28/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR