Seminars@PED in 2006
held at One Brattle Square, Harvard University (unless indicated as otherwise)
| Date | Name/Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, 10 Feb, 3:30pm |
Roger Kouyos Ecology & Evolution ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
Epistasis and the evolution of recombination |
| Friday, 24 Feb, 2pm |
Professor Michael Doebeli Departments of Zoology and Mathematics University of British Columbia |
Spatial snowdrift games and the tragedy of the commune: some new perspectives on the problem of cooperation |
| Friday, 24 March, 2pm |
Joe Yuichiro Wakano, PhD Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science University of Tokyo |
Evolution of cooperation in continuous space public goods games |
| Tuesday, 4 Apr, 2:30pm |
Georg Funk, PhD University of Basel Switzerland |
Polyomavirus infection dynamics and organ pathology |
| Monday, 24 Apr, 1pm |
Matthew Meselson Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Harvard University |
Why does sexual reproduction exist? |
| Tuesday 25 Apr 2:30pm |
Professor Jorge Zubelli IMPA Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
On a class of models for HIV dynamics |
| Monday, 1 May, 1pm |
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 | Wednesday, 10 May, 2pm |
Niko Beerenwinkel, PhD Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley |
Epistasis and shapes of fitness landscapes | Friday, 12 May, 3pm |
Christina Muirhead Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University This event co-hosted by John Wakeley and Martin Nowak |
Balancing selection and the Moran model Location: Sherman Fairchild, Rm. 177 |
| Friday, 9 June, 1pm | Kazutoshi Sasahara, PhD Laboratory for Biolinguistics Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Japan |
The Roles of Segmentation Ability in Language Evolution |
| Tuesday, 20 June, 3pm | Naoki Masuda, PhD Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Japan |
Heterogeneity in connectivity of habitat networks saves stable coexistence of competing species |
| Friday, 21 July, 1pm | Professor Martin Polz Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering MIT |
Microbial diversity in the wild: genomes, populations and species |
| Tuesday, 5 September, 11am | Professor Manfred Milinski Department of Evolutionary Ecology Max Planck Society Munich, Germany |
Direct and indirect effects of reputation on inducing cooperation |
| Friday, 22 September, 2pm | Stefano Ghirlanda, PhD Department of Psychology University of Bologna Italy |
Irrationality in animal communication |
| Wednesday, 25 October, 2pm | Geoff Wild, PhD Department of Applied Mathematics The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada |
Inclusive fitness arguments for homogeneous finite populations |
| Monday, 18 December, 1pm | Professor Bruce Walker, MD Harvard Medical School |
HIV evolution and immune control: Perspectives from studies in Africa |