Christine Taylor

Contact

Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
Harvard University
One Brattle Square
Cambridge, MA
USA, 02138-3758
phone: +1 (617) 496 5560
fax: +1 (617) 496 4629

Scientific Career

2008-Lecturer on Mathematics (Harvard Math department).
2004-Research Associate @ PED.
2000-2004 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences; Department of Mathematics, MIT

Education

2000Ph.D. in Mathematics; Dissertation under the supervision of Prof. S.T. Yau: Compact Manifolds with Exceptional Holonomy, Harvard University
1996 MPhil in Mathematics, University of Oxford
1995

A.M. in Mathematics, Harvard University

1994Certificate of Study in Advanced Mathematics, University of Cambridge, England
1993 BA Magna cum Laude, Mathematics, Harvard University

Research interests

Evolutionary game theory, stochastic game dynamics, evolution of cooperation,finite random games.

Selected publications

  1. Taylor C (1999). New examples of compact manifolds of holonomy spin. Math Res Lett 6: 557-561.
  2. Fudenberg D, MA Nowak, C Taylor (2003). Stochastic Evolution in Finite Populations. Theor Popul Biol 70: 352-363.
  3. Nowak MA, A Sasaki, C Taylor, D Fudenberg (2004). Emergence of cooperation and evolutionary Stability in Finite Populations. Nature 428: 646-650.
  4. Taylor C, D Fudenberg, MA Nowak, A Sasaki (2004). Evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations. Bull Math Biol 66: 1621-1644.
  5. Taylor C, Y Iwasa, MA Nowak (2006). A symmetry of fixation times in evolutionary dynamics. J theor Biol 243: 245-251
  6. Taylor C, MA Nowak (2006). Evolutionary game dynamics with non-uniform interaction rates. Theor Popul Biol 69: 243-252.