Seminars@PED in 2005
held at One Brattle Square, Harvard University (unless indicated as otherwise)
| Date | Name/Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 28 January | Jessica Flack Santa Fe Institute |
Organizational mechanics or primate societies. |
| 25 February | Professor Reinhard Bürger Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria |
Intraspecific competitive divergence and convergence. |
| 25 February | Sebastian Bonhoeffer Ecology & Evolution, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
The evolution of recombination viewed from a retroviral perspective. |
| 3 March | Dr. Sevan Ficici Computer Science Department, Volan Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University |
Finite population dynamics in games with polymorphic attractors. |
| 13 April | Professor Claus Wedekind Hrdy Visiting Professor for Conservation Biology, SNF Research Professor, University of Bern, Switzerland |
An introduction to population genetics. |
| 25 April | Professor Randy Linder Associate Professor, Section of Integrative Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin |
The nature of species. |
| 24 May | Kevin Foster | How does cooperation evolve? The genetics of conflict resolution, and the evolution of mutualism. |
| 5 Oct | Sébastien Roch | Inferring evolutionary histories by likelihood methods: Computational hardness. |
| 19 Oct | Hunter Fraser, PhD | Quantitative studies of aging. |
| 24 Oct | Sergey Gavrilets Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee |
The dynamics of Machiavellian intelligence. |
| 16 Nov 1pm |
John Wakeley Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
Coalescent processes when the distribution of offspring number among individuals is highly skewed. |
| 21 Nov 3pm |
Claus Wedekind Department of Conservation Biology, University of Lausanne |
Selection on the major histocompatibilty complex and female decisions about mate choice and pregnancy. |
| 30 Nov 1:15pm |
Arne Traulsen Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University This event co-hosted by John Wakeley and Martin Nowak held at Sherman Fairchild Rm. 177 |
A simple model for multilevel selection. |
| 2pm Mon 12 Dec |
Akiko Iwanaga Mathematical Biology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Kyushu University, Japan |
Epidemiology and disease-control under gene-for-gene plant-pathogen interaction. |


