Acknowledgements

This course is based on a fantastic textbook by Sally Otto and Troy Day, A biologist's guide to mathematical modeling in ecology and evolution. I've been fortunate to have been taught by both of these excellent mentors and I hope I can do them and their book justice.

I'm also very grateful to Leithen M'Gonigle who has slickly elaborated on Sally's lecture notes in LaTeX and kindly shared them with me.

Thanks also to Ailene McPherson who, along with Sally and Leithen, continues to help me teach this course and inspires me to become a better teacher.

Thanks are also due to Puneeth Deraje who went above and beyond as the course's first TA.

And you wouldn't be reading this without the help of Tom Ouellette who did an amazing job creating this website as a course development TA.

Finally, thanks to all the students who have taken the course and given me feedback (explicit or not) -- thanks for your patience!