Ido Filin – Teaching 

Teaching material from courses I gave, online tutorials, etc. Provided as is – no guarantees; typos and all.

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WebGL by example

A series of live code samples with explanations that I wrote for MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) – explaining and demonstrating the WebGL web technology for GPU-accelerated 3D computer graphics.

Life history theory

A course on mathematical modeling and optimization of life histories – Fall 2012.

  1. An introduction to life history theory
  2. First glimpse of R and optimization models
  3. Fitness in constant environments and trade-offs
  4. Trade-offs continued, numerical optimization
  5. Numerical optimization

Island life

A course on island biology and island biogeography. Spring 2012 and Fall 2012. This is the Fall 2012 version.

  1. Island life: an introduction
  2. Introduction (continued) and Island physics
  3. Island physics (continued)
  4. Long distance dispersal
  5. Biodiversity on islands
  6. Endemicity and insular evolution
  7. Adaptive radiation on islands
  8. Other evolutionary trends on islands
  9. Extinction of island species
  10. Theory of island biogeography
  11. Habitat islands and course summary

Pupulation ecology

Population ecology – Fall 2012.

  1. An introduction to population biology and modeling
  2. First glimpse of R and population growth models
  3. Unregulated population growth
  4. Second R tutorial
  5. Unregulated growth (continued and summarized)
  6. Lecture skipped
  7. Population regulation and intraspecific competition
  8. Population regulation and intraspecific competition (continued)
  9. Logistic growth
  10. Variation among individuals and population structure
  11. Population cycles and fluctuations
  12. Interspecific interactions