1. 2012 CMACS Workshop on Modeling Biological Systems Nancy Griffeth Professor of Computer Science Lehman College January 4, 2012

2. Welcome!

3. What are we doing here? Preparation and recruiting for research internships and graduate school Exposure to research projects Interdisciplinary work experience Learn a few things Introductions

4. Staff Nancy Griffeth: professor of computer science at Lehman College Flavio Fenton: professor of physics at Georgia Tech Aron Wolinetz: PhD student in computer science at the Graduate Center Rachel Spratt: Math major at Lehman, attended last year’s workshop Daniel Packard: QuBi program at Hunter, attended last year’s workshop Charles Beard: CS major at Lehman Introductions

5. Visiting Lecturers Liesl Jones, chair of biology at Lehman Robert Gilmour, professor of physiology at Cornell Bard Ermentrout, professor of math at Pittsburgh

6. Who are you? (By college) Introductions

7. Who are you? (By major) Introductions

8. Who are you? (By type of major)

9. Participants Time to introduce yourselves… What’s your college? Your major? What fictional character would you most like to be? Introductions

10. Logistics What’s important? Cafeteria Coffee and snacks Bathrooms Logistics and paperwork

11. Maps Campus Map Carman Hall is at the southwest end of the campus Logistics and paperwork

12. Tunnels Logistics and paperwork

13. Paperwork For stipend Everyone: Form 701 Non-resident aliens: Form 702 Teaming questionnaire (on-line) Logistics and paperwork

14. Teaming: your primary interest is… Biologist: understanding biological phenomena Computational biologist: using mathematical and/or computational techniques to understand biology Theoretical mathematician: classical math Logistics and paperwork

15. Applied mathematician: using math to understand other phenomena Statistician: using and/or developing statistics to understand phenomena Chemist/biochemist: applying molecular behavior to understand phenomena Teaming: your primary interest is…

16. Physicist: understanding physical laws governing phenomena Computer scientist: using and developing computational techniques and algorithms Programmer/software developer: creating software and developing new techniques for creating software

17. Questions or Discussion?

18. Workshop Outline `MonTuesWedThursFri Week 1 Intro & Motivati on Biology & Project Diff Eq Model s Models, Code Review Robert Gilmour Week 2 Flavio Fenton Flavio Fenton Flavio Fenton Flavio Fenton Project Week 3 MLK Birth- day Project Present ations Bard Ermentr out

19. Today’s agenda 10 am Welcome and Paperwork 11 am Introduction to modeling Nancy Griffeth 12 noon Lunch 1 pm Excitable Systems Aron Wolinetz 2 pm BBC, “The Secret Life of Chaos” 3 pm Discussion Agenda