[Acmsmajors] MathAcrossCampus Colloquium

[Brooke Miller]

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>                  MathAcrossCampus Colloquium

>               (http://www.math.washington.edu/mac/)

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>        Evolutionary trees, coalescents, and gene trees:

>               can mathematicians find the woods?

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>                       JOE FELSENSTEIN

>                     Genome Sciences, UW

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>        Thursday, November 13, 2008, 3:30 Kane Hall 210

>                     Reception to follow

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> Abstract:

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> The evolutionary genealogy of life is not just an evolutionary tree,

> but a bunch of different tree-like diagrams. All of these trees are

> interrelated and they exist in strange and difficult spaces,

> entangled with each other.  Biologists now realize that we need

> mathematics and statistics to think clearly about inferring these

> trees.  Can the mathematicians help us do that?

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> About the speaker:

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> Joe Felsenstein is a world-leader in evolutionary genetics and

> phylogenies. He received a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of

> Chicago in 1968 and currently holds positions at UW in the  

> Departments of

> Genome Sciences, Biology, Statistics, and Computer Science &  

> Engineering.

> He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American

> Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has won numerous prestigious awards,

> among which are the 1993 Sewall Wright Award, the 2000 Weldon Memorial

> Prize, and the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2008. He has published over

> 100 articles and is the author of the book "Inferring Phylogenies"

> which reviewers have called an "instant classic".

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> Discussion session:

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> There will be an informal discussion session with the speaker on

> Friday, Nov 14 between 12:30-1:20pm in Miller 302-A. This is an

> opportunity for interested students and faculty to ask more questions

> and talk about open problems and research directions.

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> MathAcrossCampus is a new activity at UW whose main offering is a

> quarterly colloquium on applications of mathematics. These talks are

> meant to be widely accessible. See http://www.math.washington.edu/mac/

> for more details and other activities under this umbrella.

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