2003-04 Lecture Series: Mathematics Across the Disciplines Lecture #7: The Functions of Behavior or How Did a Behavioral Ecologist Get Mixed Up with Equations Like These? Dr. Peter Bednekoff Biology Department Education B.S. University of Tulsa (summa cum laude) Major: Environmental biology PhD Oxford University (supervisors: J.R. Krebs and A.I. Houston) Thesis: Foraging and Fat Reserves in Great Tits in a Variable Environment Teaching Experience Demonstrator, Oxford University Introduction to Computing (Biological Sciences Program) 1991 Modeling in the Biological Sciences, 1992 Tutor, Oxford University Ecology and Conservation (Zoology Dept. and Forestry Program) 1992 Instructor, Northern Arizona University BIO 698, 498 Seminars on seed caching and spatial memory. Spring 1992, Fall 1993 BIO 366 Animal Behavior (non-majors) part of Fall 1993 Instructor, Indiana State University LIFS 650 Graduate seminar in ecology, Fall 1996 Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University BIO 693 Seminar ZOO 670 Animal Behavior BIO 478/508 Evolution: Fact and Theory BIO 509 Statistics for Biologists (previously known as Biometry) ZOO 425/575 Ornithology BIOL 110 General Biology BIOL 315 Evolution Presenter, Tulsa Summer Workshop for Teachers, 1998- 2001 Research Experience: Biological Sciences Senior Research Program, University of Tulsa 1987-88 Research Student, Department of Zoology, Oxford University 1988-1992 Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institut für Verhaltenphysiologie, Andechs, Germany 1990 Associate Researcher, Nxai Pan Research, Nxai Pan National Park, Botswana 1992 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northern Arizona University 1992-94 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia 1994-6 Associate scientist, Projecto Iguanas Marinas, Galapagos Islands, 1994-5 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Indiana State University, 1996-7 Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University, 1997-2002 Associate Professor, Eastern Michigan University, 2002- present Panel member, National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education, Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program, July 18-21 2000 Panel member, National Science Foundation, Division of Integrative Biology, Animal Behavior program, Apr. 28-30, 2004 Associate editor for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (Springer-Verlag), fall 2002- present