Seminars@PED in 2009
held at One Brattle Square, Harvard University (unless indicated as otherwise)
| Date | Name/Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4pm Thursday 30 April |
Professor David Nelson Department of Physics |
Life at the front of an expanding population. |
| 3pm Tuesday 14 July |
Dr. Yitzhak (Tzachi) Pilpel Weizmann Institute of Science Israel |
Adaptive prediction of environmental changes by microorganisms. |
| 3pm Monday 27 July |
Professor Tom Chou University of California Los Angeles |
Ligand-receptor dynamics: from potential reconstruction to viral entry. |
| 3pm Friday 2 October |
Dr. David Shuker
University of St Andrews UK this event co-hosted by Naomi Pierce and Martin Nowak |
Sex ratio behaviour in Nasonia wasps: towards the genetic basis of an adaptive paradigm. |
| 3pm Monday 5 October |
Dr. Arne Traulsen Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology |
Modeling evolution: of genes, cells, and humans. |
| 3pm Friday 23 October |
Dr. Daniel Kronauer Harvard Society of Fellows |
The birth, life and death of an army ant superorganism. |
| 3pm Wednesday 28 October |
Dr. Matthijs vanVeelen University of Amsterdam |
When inclusive fitness is right and when it can be wrong. |
| 3pm Friday 30 October |
Professor Jeffrey Gore MIT Department of Physics |
Games microbes play: Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast. |
| 4pm Monday 2 November |
Dr. Patrick Goymer Nature Publishing Group |
An introduction to publishing in Nature. |
| 4pm Monday 9 November |
Professor Simon Gächter University of Nottingham |
Costly cooperation and punishment from a behavioral economics perspective. |
| 4pm Monday 16 November |
Professor Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute |
A cooperative species: Evolutionary models and the Pleistocene human condition. |
| 4:30pm Wednesday 18 November |
Dr. Matthijs vanVeelen University of Amsterdam |
In and out of equilibrium: Evolution of strategies in repeated games with discounting. |