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Seminars@PED in 2006

held at One Brattle Square, Harvard University (unless indicated as otherwise)

Date	Name/Affiliation	Title
3:30pm Fri 10 Feb	Roger Kouyos Ecology & Evolution, ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Epistasis and the evolution of recombination.
2pm Fri 24 Feb	Professor Michael Doebeli Departments of Zoology and Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Canada	Spatial snowdrift games and the tragedy of the commune: Some new perspectives on the problem of cooperation.
2pm Fri 24 Mar	Joe Yuichiro Wakano, PhD Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University, Japan	Evolution of cooperation in continuous space public goods games.
2:30pm Tue 4 Apr	Georg Funk, PhD University of Basel, Switzerland	Polyomavirus infection dynamics and organ pathology.
1pm Mon 24 Apr	Professor Matthew Meselson Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences	Why does sexual reproduction exist?
2:30pm Tue 25 Apr	Professor Jorge Zubelli IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	On a class of models for HIV dynamics.
1pm Mon 1 May	Professor Philip Holmes Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NIMH Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research, Princeton University	Optimal decisions in the brain? From neural oscillators to stochastic differential equations.
2pm Wed 10 May	Niko Beerenwinkel, PhD Computational Biology Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Epistasis and shapes of fitness landscapes.
3pm Fri 12 May	Christina Muirhead, PhD Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology This event co-hosted by John Wakeley and Martin Nowak held at Sherman Fairchild Rm. 177	Balancing selection and the Moran model.
1pm Fri 9 Jun	Kazutoshi Sasahara, PhD University of Tokyo	The roles of segmentation ability in language evolution.
3pm Tue 20 Jun	Naoki Masuda, PhD Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience, Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Japan	Heterogeneity in connectivity of habitat networks saves stable coexistence of competing species.
1pm Fri 21 Jul	Professor Martin Polz Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT	Microbial diversity in the wild: Genomes, populations, and species.
11am Tue 5 Sep	Professor Manfred Milinski Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Society, Munich, Germany	Direct and indirect effects of reputation on inducing cooperation.
2pm Fri 22 Sep	Stefano Ghirlanda, PhD Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy	Irrationality in animal communication.
2pm Wed 25 Oct	Geoff Wild, PhD University of Western Ontario	Inclusive fitness arguments for homogeneous finite populations.
1pm Mon 18 Dec	Professor Bruce Walker, MD Harvard Medical School	HIV evolution and immune control: Perspectives from studies in Africa.