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