MATH 111 Linear Algebra This is our big linear algebra service course. I have become convinced that "linear algebra" as it is currently conceived (look at the table of contents in any standard textbook) is understood by almost no graduate of the course and (happily enough I guess) is needed by almost no graduate of the course (though a number of them could use the powerful ideas of the subject). That would seem to leave me morally free to depart quite markedly from the standard path. But what should I do? There's no lack of wonderful things connected with the subject. How much of structural development of the subject do they need? These are questions I have been struggling with for a few years now. IDIS 303 Mathematics and Poetry For the past 20 years I have taught this course jointly with a member of the English Department. This course has achieved a wide reputation, and attracts 50-60 students per year from all Departments in the Faculty and from the Faculty of Applied Science. An important strength of such a course is that it brings together students with such a wide range of concentrations and interests to discuss, on one hand a math problem, and on the other, a poem. Contrary to popular belief, we don't talk about the relationship between mathematics and poetry; we let those (wonderful) connections speak for themselves. Rather we work and play with the best poems and math problems we can find. MATH 382 Math Explorations This course is designed with intending high school math teachers in mind, but is a valuable experience for anyone interested in the teaching of mathematics. We work with high school level material but with beautiful, striking and challenging exploratory problems. The students work in small groups and present some of the problems themselves. My idea is to develop a sense that these problems and others like them would in fact make an excellent high school math curriculum. MATH 838 Mathematical Biology This is the Biomath graduate course offered every year and taken by many members of the awesome Queen's Mathematical Biology Group. This year we are focusing on the foundations of inclusive fitness theory.