Workshop Description (Introductory Course)
MATLAB is a powerful, high-level programing language for numerical computation, visualization, and application development. This workshop will start by introducing the MATLAB environment and then cover working with arrays and matrices, loops and conditional statements, writing your own functions, working with files and visualizing your data. The final day will briefly introduce utilizing MATLAB to solve differential equations and the basics of computational systems biology modeling using MATLAB. The course is supplemented with many hands-on exercises. The workshop is suitable for those with or without coding experience in other languages. No computational knowledge is assumed and no prerequisite workshops are required, however the Unix workshop (workshop 1) may be a useful foundation.
Workshop Materials
Day 1
The slides for day 1 can be found here.
Section 1: Intro and the MATLAB development environment
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Section 2: Basic variables
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Section 3: Matrices
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Section 4: Printing and more matrices
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Section 5: Our first script
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Section 6: Data types
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Section 7: The if statement
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Technical Requirements
- Attendees are required to have a Hoffman2 account. To apply for an account, click here. UCLA participants who lack a faculty sponsor and non-UCLA participants may apply for a temporary Hoffman2 account, requesting sponsorship from Collaboratory Workshops.
- MATLAB – https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html
- We strongly encourage attendees to bring a laptop capable of accessing UCLA’s WiFi.
Instructor
Dr. Ying Tang is a postdoc in signaling systems laboratory working with Professor Alexander Hoffmann. His research interest is to develop quantitative understanding on immune systems through mathematical modeling, from the level of intracellular information transmission to cell population dynamics. Prior to joining UCLA, he did PhD study in Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University of California, San Deigo. During PhD, he worked on stochastic process, nonequilibrium statistical physics, and mathematical modeling of E. coli chemotaxis. Email: jamestang23@ucla.edu
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Workshop Details
Prerequisites: None
Length: 3 days, 3 hrs per day
Level: Introductory
Location: ZOOM
Seats Available: TBD
Winter 2021 Dates
January 19, 20, and 21
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED!