CS382:Unit-descriptions

Nate

• environmental / ecosystem monitoring. temperature levels / air quality. modelling specific regions vs global modelling
• socioeconomic modelling. what happens with changes in legislation eg taxes, min wage. model of population behavior. (agent)
  • Computational Sociology (wikipedia)
  • brian castellani sociology and complexity web
  • Center for Models of Life - CMOL: Models / Interactive Java Applets
    • A model of information and dominance
    • Modeling self organization of communication and topology in social networks

Philip

• Chemical modeling - Using resources to model molecules and looking at the kind of molecule a certain combination of atoms make. Goes into using this kind of modeling to make new drugs. Would include a lecture that harks back to an (most likely) earlier lecture about how modeling is the third leg and then go into how drug companies have saved billions of dollars by being able to get through the early phases of drug development with just models. Would have a lab to come up with a feasible possibility for a new type of drug, and what it would/could possibly treat. Need to look into the availability of a computational chem server, as it might not be for use for beyond high school.

• Possibly a more structured/simpler version of the parachute lab done in CS290. Obviously having them perform the parachute drops and such would not be feasible but we could have them start out with the videos and some figures and they would do the netlogo aspect of the lab for themselves.

Third person

• one description
• another description

And so on.