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"