2 Schedule

All lectures are in SN 3060 unless otherwise stated

This is a tentative revision of the schedule following the MUNFA strike.

This revised version fo the schedule will be confirmed after discussion with the class.

  • Thurs Jan 5: Introduction
  • Fri Jan 6: Population biology with discrete and continuous variables
  • Tues Jan 10: —
  • Thurs Jan 12: CSF 2218 Introduction to Rmarkdown and tidyverse Assignment 1 is assigned
  • Fri Jan 13: Geometric growth
  • Tues Jan 17: Exponential growth
  • Thurs Jan 19: CSF 2218 Numerical solutions and graphing population data Assignment 2 is assigned
  • Fri Jan 20: Exponential growth
  • Tues Jan 24: Density dependence and logistic growth
  • Thurs Jan 26: Density dependence and logistic growth Assignments 1 & 2 are due
  • Fri Jan 27: Discrete time models with density dependence

MUNFA STRIKE

  • Thurs Feb 16: Age-structured models
  • Fri Feb 17: CSF 2218 Numerical analysis of stage-structured models Assignment 3 is assigned

WINTER BREAK (Exam I will be posted on Tuesday Feb 21. Exam I is now a takehome exam due on Monday April 10.)

  • Tues Feb 28: Stage-structured models
  • Thurs Mar 2: Stage-structured models
  • Fri Mar 3: Density dependence in stage-structured models Assignment 3 is due
  • Tues Mar 7: Metapopulation models
  • Thurs Mar 9: Continuous space models
  • Fri Mar 10: Disease dynamics
  • Tues Mar 14: The net reproduction number
  • Thurs Mar 16: EXAM II (Only material since returning from the strike)
  • Fri Mar 17: What is evolutionary ecology?
  • Tues Mar 21: Haploid selection model
  • Thur Mar 23: Selection coefficients for COVID-19 variants
  • Fri Mar 24: CSF 2218 Estimating selection coefficients Assignment 4 is assigned
  • Tues Mar 28: The evolutionary ecology of pathogens
  • Thurs Mar 30: The evolutionary ecology of COVID-19
  • Fri Mar 31: The evolutionary ecology of hosts Assignment 4 is due
  • Tues Apr 3: The evolution of reproductive effort in plants
  • Thurs Apr 5: Evolutionarily stable and convergent stable strategies
  • Fri Apr 6: Review

TBD FINAL EXAM (all course material)