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Undergraduate Program: The 2012 Two-week Program
(May 29 - June 8, 2012)

Undergraduate Summer Research Two-week Program Tentative Schedule

Tuesday 5/29
8:15am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza
8:30-9:00am Continental Breakfast at MBI
9:00-9:30am Program Introductions
9:30-12:00pm Jim Keener (University of Utah) - Overview of Mathematical Biology
2:30-4:30pm Rebecca Tien (MBI) - Computer lab on introduction to MatLab
Wednesday 5/30
8:45am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza
9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast at MBI
9:30-12:00pm Hal Smith (Arizona State University) - Dynamical Systems & Species Competition/Cooperation
1:30-3:30pm Rebecca Tien (MBI) - Computer lab using MatLab
Thursday 5/31
8:45am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza
9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast at MBI
9:30-12:00pm Giovanna Guidoboni (IUPUI) - Tissue and Blood modeling
1:30-2:30pm Lumina Next Generation Sequencing Lab tour with Pearlly Yan
2:30-4:30pm Study group meetings
Friday 6/1
8:45am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza
9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast at MBI
9:30-12:00pm Dan Janies (Ohio State University) - Computational Biology and the Evolution of Diseases
1:45-3:00pm Wetlands Research Park tour with Bill Mitsch
3:30-5:00pm Sam Handelman (MBI) - Computer lab using web resources
Monday 6/4
8:45am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza
9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast at MBI
9:30-12:00pm Kate Calder (Ohio State University) - Environmental Statistics
1:30-3:30pm Sam Handelman (MBI) - Computer lab using R
Tuesday 6/5
8:45am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza
9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast at MBI
9:30-12:00pm Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh) - Computational Neuroscience
1:30-2:30pm Biodiversity Museum tour with Meg Daly
2:30-3:30pm Neuroscience Lab tour with Joe Travers
3:30-5:00pm Study group meetings
Wednesday 6/6
8:45am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza
9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast at MBI
9:30-10:30am Aquatics Lab tour with Elizabeth Marschall
10:30-12:00pm Study group meetings
1:30-3:30pm Jung Eun Kim (Ohio State University) - Computer lab using XPPAUT
Thursday 6/7
8:45am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza
9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast at MBI
9:30-12:00pm Janet Best (Ohio State University) - Mathematical Neuroscience
1:30-3:30pm Jung Eun Kim (Ohio State University) - Computer lab using XPPAUT and/or MatLab
Friday 6/8
8:45am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza
9:00-9:30am Continental Breakfast at MBI
9:30-12:00pm Krešimir Josić (University of Houston) - Probability Modeling in Biology
1:30-2:30pm Computer lab working on probability paper challenge problem
2:30-3:00pm Program wrap-up