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Seminars@PED in 2004

held at One Brattle Square, Harvard University

Date	Name/Affiliation	Title
20 February	Professor Reinhard Bürger Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria	Genetic models frequency-dependent selection on a quantitative trait.
26 February	Professor Natalia Komarova 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	Population learning on graphs.
11 March	Professor Ed Stabler Department of Linguistics, UCLA	More dimensions of the lexical matrix.
18 March	Professor Lorens Imhof Institut fuer Statistik, RWTH Aachen, Germany	Stochastic replicator dynamics.
25 March	Dr. Christine Taylor Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Evolutionary Game Dynamics in Finite Populations.
26 March	Professor Peter Michor Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria	Riemannian geometries on spaces of plane curves, and of submanifolds of a Riemannian manifold.
13 April	Professor Richard Frankham Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW	Genetics and extinction.
15 April	Professor Cedric Boeckx 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	Population genetics.
29 April	Professor Michael Brenner Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics	Calculating optimal designs.
6 May	Professor John Wakeley Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology	Gene genealogies and forward-time diffusion processes in a subdivided population.
20 May	Professor 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 Associate Professor of the Section of Integrative Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin	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.