Seminars@PED in 2007
held at One Brattle Square, Harvard University (unless indicated as otherwise)
| Date | Name/Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1pm Fri 9 Feb |
Professor James J. Collins Center for BioDynamics and Deptartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University |
Engineering gene networks: Integrating synthetic biology & systems biology. powerpoint presentation |
| 2pm Fri 9 Mar |
Satoru Takahashi Department of Economics, Princeton University |
Community enforcement when players observe partners' past play. |
| 3pm Tue 13 Mar |
Professor Erwin Frey Statistical and Biological Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany |
Rock-paper-scissors games and biodiversity. |
| 3pm Mon 9 Apr |
Dr. Terence Burnham Acadian Asset Management |
Caveman economics: How Charles Darwin will save Adam Smith. PDF on intentionality priming PDF on engineering human cooperation |
| 1pm Tue 8 May |
Dr. Becca Asquith School of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK |
The cytotoxic T lymphocyte response to HIV-1 infection. |
| 1pm Tue 29 May |
Dr. Hyman Hartman Division of Bioengineering, MIT |
The origin of life. |
| 4pm Thu 7 Jun |
Professor Avner Friedman Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University |
Multiscale models of tumors. |
| 4pm Fri 8 Jun |
Dr. Daniel Rankin University of Bern, Switzerland |
Population ecology and the evolutionary tragedy of the commons. |
| 4pm Tue 12 Jun |
Dr. Jeffrey Fletcher Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Canada |
Evolution of altruism theory: Fitness accounting methods and eausal explanations. |
| 4pm Fri 15 Jun |
Professor Emir Kamenica Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago |
Dating markets: Theory and experimental evidence. gender differences in mate selection (PDF) on racial preferences in dating (PDF) |
| 4pm Mon 18 Jun |
Dr. Oskar Hallatschek Department of Physics |
Surfing genes: On the fate of neutral mutations in expanding populations. |
| 3pm Fri 22 Jun |
Dr. Joe Yuichiro Wakano University of Tokyo, Japan |
Spatial public goods games: Coexistence of cooperators and defectors through spatial pattern formation. |
| 11am Wed 15 Aug |
Dr. Albert Cardona UCLA |
Fly brain development. |
| 4pm Tue 18 Sep |
Professor Chip Aquadro Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University |
Inferences of biological function and evolutionary process from DNA sequence diversity. |
| 10:30am Fri 19 Oct |
Dr. Pat Barclay Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University |
Social markets, cooperative signals, and the evolution of competitive altruism. |
| 4pm Tue 27 Nov |
Professor Joachim Krug Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany |
Clonal interference in large populations. |