Seminars@PED in 2005
held at One Brattle Square, Harvard University (unless indicated as otherwise)
| Date | Name/Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 28 January | Jessica Flack Santa Fe Institute |
"Organizational Mechanics or primate societies" |
| 25 February | Reinhard Bürger Department of Mathematics University of Vienna |
"Intraspecific Competitive Divergence and Convergence" |
| 25 February | Sebastian Bonhoeffer ETH Zurich Ecology & Evolution |
"The evolution of recombination viewed from a retroviral perspective" |
| 3 March | Sevan Ficici Research Fellow, Computer Science Department Volan Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University |
"Finite Population Dynamics in Games with Polymorphic Attractors" |
| 13 April | Claus Wedekind Hrdy Visiting Professor for Conservation Biology; SNF Research Professor, University of Bern, Switzerland & |
"An introduction to Population Genetics " |
| 25 April | 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. |
"The nature of species" |
| 24 May | Kevin Foster | "How does cooperation evolve? The genetics of conflict resolution, and the evolution of mutualism" |
| 5 Oct | Sébastien Roch | "Inferring Evolutionary Histories by Likelihood Methods: Computational Hardness" |
| 19 Oct | Hunter Fraser, PhD | "Quantitative studies of aging" |
| 24 Oct |
Sergey Gavrilets Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
"The dynamics of Machiavellian intelligence" |
| 16 Nov 1pm |
John Wakeley Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University |
"Coalescent Processes when the Distribution of Offspring Number among Individuals is Highly Skewed" |
| 21 Nov 3pm |
Claus Wedekind Department of Conservation Biology University of Lausanne |
"Selection on the major histocompatibilty complex and female decisions about mate choice and pregnancy" |
| 30 Nov 1:15pm |
Arne Traulsen Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University This event co-hosted by John Wakeley and Martin Nowak |
"A Simple Model for Multilevel Selection" Location: Sherman Fairchild, Rm. 177 |
| Monday, 12 Dec 2pm |
Akiko Iwanaga Mathematical Biology Laboratory, Department of Biology Kyushu University |
"Epidemiology and disease-control under gene-for-gene plant-pathogen interaction" |