Biological Circuit Design
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Biological Circuit Design
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Re: Biological Circuit Design
#2I sure hope this is a graduate-level course.
Re: Biological Circuit Design
#3I sure hope this is a graduate-level course.
What do u mean "graduate level"?
Re: Biological Circuit Design
#4I sure hope this is a graduate-level course.
BE150 is sort of inbetween: https://www.catalog.caltech.edu/current/2023-24/department/B...
"Advanced undergraduate" or "beginning graduate." It's Caltech though so the distinction is a bit meaningless.
Re: Biological Circuit Design
#5I sure hope this is a graduate-level course.
What do u mean "graduate level"?
I mean that PhD candidates would be the primary target, rather than undergraduates, although talented, advanced undergraduates would also be welcome (this being Caltech, I'd expected there to be plenty of juniors and seniors in the course).
I say this because it drops into diffeqs and fairly subtle/complex behavior quickly.
Re: Biological Circuit Design
#6I sure hope this is a graduate-level course.
The difference between graduate and undergraduate level is that graduate is often easier (ie less work load) than undergrad…
This is because graduate students main focus is their research, and courses are a distant second.
Re: Biological Circuit Design
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do u mean "graduate level"?
I mean that PhD candidates would be the primary target, rather than undergraduates, although talented, advanced undergraduates would also be welcome (this being Caltech, I'd expected there to be plenty of juniors and seniors in the course). I say this because it drops into diffeqs and fairly subtle/complex behavior quickly.
Differential equation are usually introduced to undergrads by year 2 or 3. So I expect this to be upper undergraduate course.
Re: Biological Circuit Design
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean that PhD candidates would be the primary target, rather than undergraduates, although talented, advanced undergraduates would also be welcome (this being Caltech, I'd expected there to be plenty of juniors and seniors in the course). I say this because it drops into diffeqs and fairly subtle/complex behavior quickly.
Differential equation are usually introduced to undergrads by year 2 or 3. So I expect this to be upper undergraduate course.
Not for biologists; typically, they will do multivariate calculus but not so much diffeq (although depends on the school and the student).
Re: Biological Circuit Design
#9I sure hope this is a graduate-level course.
The difference between graduate and undergraduate level is that graduate is often easier (ie less work load) than undergrad… This is because graduate students main focus is their research, and courses are a distant second.
Hmm, sort of? I can't really generalize from my own (first year, before joining a lab full-time) PhD courses, but I found them challenging in a way that differed from undergrad: more expectation that you'd be able to figure out the solutions to the hard problems by learning entire new fields on the fly.
Re: Biological Circuit Design
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Differential equation are usually introduced to undergrads by year 2 or 3. So I expect this to be upper undergraduate course.
Not for biologists; typically, they will do multivariate calculus but not so much diffeq (although depends on the school and the student).
At Caltech specifically FWIW, the biology major requirements include intro to diff eq (Ma 2),[0] which is usually taken in the first quarter of sophomore year.
[0] https://www.bbe.caltech.edu/academics/biology/undergraduate-...