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 |