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Mathematical Challenges for Biologists
Tuesday 16 November 2010
All too frequently, bioscience undergraduates and postgraduates find they are ill-equipped to tackle mathematical challenges in programmes or research projects involving, for example, bioinformatics, modelling of enzyme kinetics or population growth, or perhaps a newly emerging area of activity associated with modern systems biology. This event, organised by the UK Centre for Bioscience, in collaboration with the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), explored a wide range of issues associated with maths provision as students progress from school to university undergraduate programmes to postgraduate studies and employment.
Programme
from the day
| 10:00 |
Coffee and registration |
| 10:20 |
Welcome and introduction to the day
David Adams, UK Centre for Bioscience |
| 10:30 | School to University Transition I
Tom Button, Further Mathematics Support Programme and
Stephen Lee, Mathematics in Education in Industry |
| 11:10 | School to University Transition II:
a university teacher's perspective
Jenny Koenig, University of Cambridge |
| 11.50 | Break and refreshments |
| 12:05 |
Swapshop Session I
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| 12:55 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 |
Swapshop
Session II
- Teaching statistics to first year undergraduates,
Dawn Hawkins, Anglia Ruskin University
- Improving engagement and achievement
in science numeracy, Janet
Horrocks, University of Abertay, Dundee
- Encouraging students to practice basic mathematics, Hazel Corradi, University of Bath
- Teaching mathematical modelling (not mathematics)
to life scientists, Marcus Tindall, University of Reading
- Using StarLogo, a graphics-based programming environment, to enable biology students to
build computer simulations,
V. Anne Smith, University of St Andrews
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| 15:05 |
Break and refreshments |
| 15:20 |
Facilitated discussion - a coordinated
approach to addressing concerns about maths provision in the biosciences |
| 16:00 |
Reflections on the day |
| 16:15 |
Depart |
Useful links
UK Centre for Bioscience maths resource list
Other resources mentioned during the day
There are also two personal blogs on the day: Teaching maths to biologists and Challenging times
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