Today at the Center for Biological Physics, we met our third doctoral student, Dan Thorpe. Dan took time to educate us on the physics related to protein folding and creation of proteins. This involved a great deal of calculus in the form of partial derivatives of formulas. The most beneficial part of today's lecture was gaining examples to show higher math students the practical applications of their calculus skills in a thriving field of scientific study.
In the afternoon, I was able to gain some invaluable skills in excel text manipulation. In my databases, I like to sort by last name, but then I use the information in letters where I would need the first name to occur first. I learned a method of separating the first and last name and putting them in the correct order to make my workload much lighter in this aspect.
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