Teaching Portfolio Ilya Potapov, PhD

Interests

Mathematical Modeling: Complexity, Self-Organization, Emergent Behaviour, Chaos, Bifurcation Theory, Stochasticity, Networks

Biology: Cell-Cell Interactions, Development, Morphogenesis, Signalling, Molecular Networks

Bioinformatics: Single-Cell Transcriptomics, Epigenomics


In this portfolio


Teaser for Freshmen

I participated in Physics Department’s activities to attract more freshman students into Physics. At the time, the task was to determine healthy heart beating by just looking at the time series of inter-beat intervals and animation of the heart that beats according to the real data. Some other activities that change the heart rate were also part... Read more

Sample course page

The course “Dynamical Systems & Chaos” was implemented in the spring semester of 2014 and 2016. I interact with students in accordance with the culture, student habits, and demands for learning outcomes. Here, I show a typical web-site for the course I teach. This demonstrates the outline of the course, materials needed for studying and pas... Read more

Meeting students' needs

According to my teaching philosophy I try to meet students’ needs in the learning process. Thus, for example, in 2014 I recorded all lectures for the course “Dynamical Systems and Chaos” and gave the students options to learn: some students are more comfortable in a class, others are better in learning from their comfort zones. This way, I belie... Read more