Summary of course evaluation on Theoretical ecology course (EC 201) in Jan – April 2013 semester (Updated)

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Like last year, I took students’ opinion/evaluation of my course. Unlike last year, this year the course was taught for the complete semester, allowing us to cover more topics and do better on projects. Before I go onto summarizing the … Continue reading

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Sravya completes her B.Tech project on modelling Salmonella Typhimurium pathogenesis

Sravya Karur, a B. Tech student with specialization in Bioinformatics from Sastra University in Tamil Nadu, worked in our lab for her final year project for about five months, from Dec 2012 to April 2013. She worked on the “Role … Continue reading

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How to write an email/application for a short-term or summer research internship/project?

About an year ago, I wrote on the sort of hilarious to irritable emails that I get from students asking to join our lab for short-term positions (see this for the experience of another Indian professor). A few days ago I … Continue reading

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Finding the longest day with school children

I wrote this article a while ago for a school souvenir. I got delayed in posting it here since I wanted to put a picture of the plot of duration of the day that students came up with. I still … Continue reading

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Lab trip to Saavandurga

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Here are pictures from our first lab trip on last Sunday, 27th Jan 2012; we went to Saavandurga, a beautiful rocky hill around 60km south of Bangalore on Magadi road. It considered one of the largest monoliths in Asia. Views from … Continue reading

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Summary of feedback on Jan 2012 module on Theoretical Ecology

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I should have written this really long ago, but finally I get to do this. Although teaching evaluations where students get to grade teachers are a norm at most places in the world and also in India (like IITs), here … Continue reading

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Jan-April 2013: Course on Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology

I will be teaching a course on Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology (EC 201) in the coming semester, Jan-April 2013. I am very excited about this because this is the first time I will be teaching a full-semester course. I did … Continue reading

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