Seminars@PED in 2008

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

Date	Name/Affiliation	Title
4:15pm Mon 17 Mar	Professor Nicholas Christakis Harvard Medical School	Eat, drink, and be merry: The spread of health phenomena in complex, longitudinally resolved social networks.
4pm Tue 6 May	Professor Sidney Redner Boston University	Understanding baseball teams standings and streaks.
10am Fri 10 Oct	Dr Zabrina Brumme Harvard Medical School (collaboration with Toshi Miura and Bruce Walker)	GAG/protease fitness defects in HIV elite controllers.
4pm Fri 7 Nov	Professor Peter Schuster Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria. President, Austrian Academy of Sciences This event co-hosted by Walter Fontana and Martin Nowak reception catered by Formaggio Kitchen	The role of neutrality in molecular evolution: Novel variations of an old theme.
2pm Mon 10 Nov	Professor Stefano Demichelis University of Pavia, Italy	Language, meaning, and games: A model of communication, coordination, and evolution.
11am Thur 11 Dec	Dr Orkun Soyer Trento University, Italy	Parasite driven robustness in biological networks.
4pm Thu 18 Dec	Professor James Fowler University of California San Diego	Politics, biology, and the evolution of cooperation.