Homework and readings for Thursday Nov. 29, Tuesday Dec. 4 and Thursday Dec. 6 2007

Student presentation on Tyson papers: Arshed, Safia, Giao

Nov 29 Discuss in small groups:
The Pomerening Kim Ferrell paper

One of the reviews -your choice-

'Modeling as Tool' or Netdynamics

AND Tyson's questions

Questions you might have, big and small, for big John..
Some of mine run like "what's with that?" or "Can you comment on...?"

Dec 4 Small group briefly to remind you what you thought on Nov 29

The GAS group leads the discussion-
Giao, Arshed, Safia, students extraordinaire

Discussion may include a walkthrough of the modeling exercise Tyson suggested.

Optional Modeling Exercise:

Download the program WinPP from http://www.math.pitt.edu/~phase.** Copy the text file methods.ode from the course website. Open methods.ode in winpp.exe and reproduce Figures 4 and 5 in the Methods paper by Sible & Tyson.

**Arshed reports these links don't work, but found the file for us: WINPP.zip

Dec 6 12:30-1:30 Tyson gives departmental seminar, MRB/Bio5 building.
Its dead day..so you have no classes, and no excuses!
2-3:xxx We shoot the bull with John. Detailed issues and "what's with that?" questions.

Our last session, the last time for true enlightenment!

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