Raising your game by developing mathematical modelling skills
5th-9th March 2018
- Location: Each four day course is residentially based at the Ross Priory Conference Centre located on the beautiful shores of Loch Lomond
- Funding: There are 9 fully-funded places available on each course. This covers fees, travel, accommodation and subsistence. Priority is given to applicants whose research is at least 50% supported by NERC.
- Requirements: The course assumes existing familiarity with programming in R, and of basic calculus.
This course will provide a basic understanding of modelling and it uses in the environment. The course will ‘lift the lid’ of mathematical models and teach you how to build your own ordinary differential equation models from the ground-up using the open-source R programming environment. We'll show you how to formulate biological, ecological, or physical problem in terms of ordinary differential equations, code and solve them in R. We'll start by examining simple food chain system and disease models, and progress to formulating and constructing basic models from scratch.
The course is practically orientated, with short lecture sessions interspersed with hands-on practical work. A high staff to student ratio offers near 1-to-1 attention. In addition, we encourage you to come prepared to give a short presentation on your own projects. As a group, we then consider how each of these projects can be posed in terms of differential equations, and translate them into operation R-code.