March 2026 · Teaching
COOGRE Class 2026
A hands-on workshop on mathematical modeling for UC Merced's Cooperative-based Graduate Research Experience.
On 31 March 2026 I guest-lectured in COOGRE (QSB 286), UC Merced’s workshop-based graduate course run through INSITE. The session had three parts:
- What models are for. The basic ideas of mathematical modeling: what models can tell us, and where their limits are.
- A case study. Brownian motion and bacterial motility, including a short history of how the ideas developed.
- Try it yourself. Participants analyzed data and ran a simple model in a shared notebook.
The worksheet and slides are linked above, so anyone can work through it.