Mentoring, Mathematica, and Moths: Undergraduates in Research in Biomechanics

Biology is an increasingly quantitative discipline, dealing with exceedingly massive data sets and exquisitely complex systems. The development of tools capable of generating enormous amounts of data, coupled with the plummeting cost of storing, analyzing and dispensing these data enable biologists to grapple with problems that we would not have dreamed of considering 10 years ago. This talk focuses on challenges and solutions to quantitative learning by undergraduates in the life sciences.