Course information:
Outcomes in systems such as agriculture, natural ecosystems, and health care are often determined by processes that act through networks. Networks can describe the spread of pathogens, invasive species, consumer goods, ideas, and technologies. Networks can also describe associations, interactions, and transactions among people, species, and other agents. This course addresses how to analyze the impact of system changes in networks, such as the introduction of new species or new management techniques. The course provides an introduction to network science in the R programming environment, and a review of applications in biological and social sciences, including current methods used to evaluate impact. The course includes a combination of lectures to provide background information, discussion of current literature, computational analysis workshops to illustrate concepts, and individual projects to allow participants to apply ideas to systems that particularly interest them.
2 credit hours
Class meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, Period 5 (11:45-12:35), 2564 Fifield Hall
Fall semester 2019, and alternate years
Instructor: Dr. Karen A. Garrett (garrettlab.com)
Plant Pathology, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, Emerging Pathogens Institute
Office: 2411 Fifield Hall
Email: karengarrett@ufl.edu
Phone: 352-273-9110
