Abstract
The US National Science Foundation has promoted the early integration of undergraduate students into academic research environments by funding activities such as the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs. Here, we discuss the operation of the first year for one REU site held on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Eight students from across the country were brought together for a 10-week summer programme in mathematical biology to work on research topics related to the establishment of cooperative behaviour. The students were paired in four teams, which approached the dynamic tension between cooperation and defection from a variety of mathematical and contextual perspectives. Two projects employed agent-based models on lattice environments: the first consisting of sparse populations of mobile individuals and the second featuring age-structured populations, history-dependent fitness, and the possibility of kinship recognition. A third project looked at the evolutio...
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