Independent work in biochemistry can be conducted with any member of the biochemistry committee and, upon approval, also with other members of the biological sciences and chemistry departments and program in neuroscience and behavior.

This course develops the basic geometric, algebraic, and computational foundations of vector spaces and matrices and applies them to a wide range of problems and models. In addition to containing real finite dimensional vector spaces, linear independence, linear transformations and inner product spaces, the course will cover eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization, and linear programming theory with applications to graph theory, game theory, differential equations, Markov chains, and least squares approximation. Basic programming will be taught and used throughout the course.