Seminars@PED in 2004
held at One Brattle Square, Harvard University
| Date | Name/Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 20 February | Reinhard Bürger Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna |
"Genetic models frequency-dependent selection on a quantitative trait" |
| 26 February | Natalia Komarova Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, and visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Center for Systems Biology. |
"Mathematical models of DNA replication" |
| 4 March | Erick Matsen Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University |
"Population learning on graphs" |
| 11 March | Ed Stabler Professor, Department of Linguistics, UCLA |
"More dimensions of the lexical matrix" |
| 18 March | Lorens Imhof Assistant Professor, Institut fuer Statistik, RWTH Aachen, Germany |
"Stochastic replicator dynamics" |
| 25 March | Christine Taylor Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Evolutionary Game Dynamics in Finite Populations" |
| 26 March | Peter Michor Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria |
"Riemannian geometries on spaces of plane curves, and of submanifolds of a Riemannian manifold" |
| 13 April | Richard Frankham Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW |
"Genetics and extinction" |
| 15 April | Cedric Boeckx Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University |
"Organizing parameters in linguistic space" |
| 22 April | Arne Traulsen Graduate student, Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany |
"Minimal model for similarity-based cooperation" |
| 26 April | Daniel Weinreich Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University |
Population genetics |
| 29 April | Michael Brenner Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, Harvard University |
"calculating optimal designs" |
| 6 May | John Wakeley Associate Professor, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University |
"Gene genealogies and forward-time diffusion processes in a subdivided population." |
| 20 May | Michael Turelli Professor of Genetics, Evolution and Ecology (Div Bio Sci), UC Davis |
"Polygenic variation maintained by balancing selection: pleiotropy, sex-dependent allelic effects and G-E interactions" |
| 21 May | Yoh Iwasa Professor of Biology, Evolution and Ecology Kyushu University, Japan |
"Who is good and who is bad? -- evolutionary game theory of moral judgment: indirect reciprocity realized by reputation dynamics." |
| 27 May | Martin Willensdorfer Graduate Student, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University |
"Cooperative Mutation in evolutionary games" |
| 3 June | Kei Tokita Associate Professor, Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Japan |
"Statistical Mechanics of Large Complex Hypercycles" |
| 4 June | Lee Segel Professor, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute, Israel |
"Distributed feedback toward multiple goals for real time control of biological systems" |
| 16 September | Kazutoshi Sasahara Graduate Student, Institute of Physics, University of Tokyo | "Evolution of Birdsong Grammars" |
| 16 September | Prof. Takashi Ikegami Institute of Physics, University of Tokyo | "Co-operation and Co-creation in Simulated Turn-taking behaviour" |
| 17 November | David Dingli, MD Fellow, Clinician-Investigator Training Program, Hematology and Molecular Medicine, and Instructor in Medicine, Mayo Clinic |
"Radiovirotherapy for multiple myeloma" |
| 30 November | Lee Smolin, PhD Dr. Smolin is a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada. |
"Complexity and self organization in fundamental physics" |
| 2 December | Randy Linder, PhD Dr. Linder is an Associate Professor of the Section of Integrative Biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin and PED Visting Scholar. |
"Why it's so hard to reconstruct reticulate species relationships" |
| 8 December | Thomas Pfeiffer, PhD Computational Laboratory ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
"Evolution pf connectivity in metabolic networks" |