This workshop will provide hands-on experience with introductory to advanced concepts and analytical methods in matrix projection models. Specific topics include:
1st hour: life history models and an intro to R
2nd hour: basic theory and practice of matrix building, including Leslie and Lefkovitch models, stage x age models, and integral projection models, as well as models with and without individual history
3rd hour: deterministic and stochastic analysis
4th hour: density-dependence and complex analyses

Graduate students, post-docs, conservation professionals, and others wishing to become familiar with matrix analysis in R constitute the intended audience. I intend for the material to be accessible even to those just entering population ecology with only the most basic understanding, and so it will cover some theory in addition to actual practice in R. Students without experience using R will gain some general expertise in this programming language, and learn how to do these complex analyses in R.