Seminars@PED in 2007

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

Date Name/Affiliation Title
Friday, 9 Feb, 1pm Professor J.J. Collins
Center for BioDynamics and Deptartment of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Engineering Gene Networks: Integrating Synthetic Biology & Systems Biology;

Powerpoint presentation PPT
Friday, 9 Mar, 2pm Satoru Takahashi
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Community Enforcement when Players Observe Partners' Past Play

Paper PDF
Tuesday, 13 Mar, 3pm Professor Erwin Frey
Statistical and Biological Physics
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Rock-Paper-Scissors Games and Biodiversity
Monday, 9 Apr, 3pm Dr. Terence Burnham
Acadian Asset Management
Caveman economics: How Charles Darwin will save Adam Smith

PDF on intentionality priming
PDF on engineering human cooperation
Tuesday, 8 May, 1pm Dr. Becca Asquith
School of Medicine
Imperial College London
The Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Response to HIV-1 Infection
Tuesday, 29 May, 1pm Dr. Hyman Hartman
Division of Bioengineering
MIT
The Origin of Life
Thursday, 7 June, 4pm Professor Avner Friedman
Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Ohio State University
Multiscale models of tumors
Friday, 8 June, 4pm Dr. Daniel Rankin
University of Bern
Population ecology and the evolutionary tragedy of the commons
Tuesday, 12 June, 4pm Dr. Jeffrey Fletcher
Department of Zoology
University of British Columbia
Evolution of Altruism Theory: Fitness Accounting Methods and Causal Explanations
Friday, 15 June, 4pm Professor Emir Kamenica
Graduate School of Business
University of Chicago
Dating Markets: Theory and Experimental Evidence

PDF on gender differences in mate selection
PDF on racial preferences in dating
Monday, 18 June, 4pm Dr. Oskar Hallatschek
Department of Physics Harvard University
Surfing genes:
On the fate of neutral mutations in expanding populations
Friday, 22 June, 3pm Dr. Joe Yuichiro Wakano
University of Tokyo
Spatial public goods games: Coexistence of cooperators and defectors through spatial pattern formation
Wednesday, 15 Aug, 11am Dr. Albert Cardona
UCLA
Fly brain development
Tuesday, 18 Sept, 4pm Professor Chip Aquadro
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University
Inferences of biological function and evolutionary process from DNA sequence diversity
Friday, 19 Oct, 10:30am Dr. Pat Barclay
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Cornell University
Social Markets, Cooperative Signals, and the Evolution of Competitive Altruism
Tuesday, 27 Nov, 4pm Professor Joachim Krug
Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Cologne
Clonal interference in large populations