Global Dynamics Emerging from Local Interactions: Agent-Based Modeling for the Life Sciences

Gammack, David; Schaefer, Elsa; Gaff, Holly

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-415780-4.00004-1

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“…There are several good sources of information on agent-based modeling for beginning students (Gammack et al. 2013 ; Laubenbacher et al 2013 ; Ledder and Homp 2022 ; Railsback and Grimm 2019 ) and how to use agent-based modeling with students (Ballow et al. 2020 ; Bañuelos et al.…”

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Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Mathematical Modeling

Ledder

2022

Bull Math Biol

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In writing about undergraduate research in mathematical modeling, I draw on my 31 years as a mathematics professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where I mentored students in honors’ theses, REU groups, and research done in a classroom setting, as well as my prior experience. I share my views on the differences between research at the undergraduate and professional levels, offer advice for undergraduate mentoring, provide suggestions for a variety of ways that students can disseminate their research, offer some thoughts on mathematical modeling and how to explain it to undergraduates, and discuss the challenges involved in broadening research participation to include early career students and mid-tier students and how to deliver a research experience in a classroom setting. While different situations pose different challenges, different problems require different approaches, and different experiences lead to different conclusions, it is my hope that my experiences will be of broad value to a wide audience.

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Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Mathematical Modeling

Ledder

2022

Bull Math Biol

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“…However, we do want students to feel that the methods we use in teaching are useful in the classroom and beyond. For example, in (Gammack et al,2013) a model for axon guidance is discussed. The initial development of the model was done by two biology majors (one who had yet to take calculus I).…”

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Using NetLogo as a tool to encourage scientific thinking across disciplines

Evans‐Winters

2015

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In this article we discuss the possible uses of NetLogo as an educational tool for High School and early-years undergraduate students. The paper is geared towards teachers from all disciplines that require students to problem solve, be quantitative and logical but want a project orientated platform to build or reinforce knowledge. The goal is to highlight possible ways to excite students who perceive themselves to be weak mathematically by non-traditional computer-based exercises. Here we choose a model of Toxoplasmosis gondii to demonstrate our ideas and show how scientific thinking and mathematical modeling can be used by the wider teaching community. Although these methods could be used for any age group or scholarly level, here we build our ideas around students who have seen high school algebra and may have studied one semester of differential calculus. Finally, we give some ideas of how NetLogo could be incorporated across the curriculum.

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Population Dynamics of Infectious Diseases

Ledder

Homp

2022

Foundations for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics

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Global Dynamics Emerging from Local Interactions: Agent-Based Modeling for the Life Sciences

Cited by 6 publications

References 48 publications

Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Mathematical Modeling

Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Mathematical Modeling

Using NetLogo as a tool to encourage scientific thinking across disciplines

Population Dynamics of Infectious Diseases

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