Workshops

Spring 2014

Evolutionary Biology Reunion

Jul 27, 2015 to Jul 29, 2015

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract and slides (if applicable).

Please note that this schedule is subject to change. All events take place in Calvin Lab.

Monday, July 27th, 2015
9:00 am–9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am–9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am–10:00 am		The Effect of Epistasis on the Response to Selection Nicholas Barton (IST Austria)
10:00 am–10:30 am		Learning by Prediction Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley)
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:30 am		The Source of Creativity in Evolution Adi Livnat (University of Haifa)
11:30 am–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–3:00 pm		Panel Discussion Nicholas Barton (IST Austria), Steven Evans (UC Berkeley), Paul Valiant (Brown University)
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:30 pm		Simons-Berkeley Fellows’ Short Talks Shishi Luo (UC Berkeley), Iain Mathieson (Harvard University), James Zou (Harvard University)
4:30 pm–6:00 pm		Reception

Tuesday, July 28th, 2015
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:00 am		Applications of Explicit Ancestral Recombination Graph Inference in Human Genomics Adam Siepel (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
10:00 am–10:30 am		Species Tree Estimation Under the Coalescence Model Elchanan Mossel (UC Berkeley)
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:30 am		Simulating Evolution: Challenges and Insights Paul Valiant (Brown University)
11:30 am–12:00 pm		The Mixing Time of Evolutionary Dynamics in Finite Populations Nisheeth Vishnoi (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–3:15 pm		Open Problems Discussion Session (Auditorium, 1st Floor Lounge and Room 116)
3:15 pm–3:45 pm		Break
3:45 pm–5:00 pm		Open Problems Discussion Session (Auditorium, 1st Floor Lounge and Room 116)

Wednesday, July 29th, 2015
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:00 am		A Genetic and Socio-Economic Analysis of Human Assortative Mating Patterns James Zou (Harvard University)
10:00 am–10:30 am		The Effects of Migration and Assortative Mating on Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium Eran Halperin (Tel Aviv University)
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Simons-Berkeley Fellows’ Short Talks Anand Bhaskar (Stanford University), Sriram Sankararaman (Harvard Medical School ), Daniel Živković (Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich)
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:30 pm		Gene Expression: Regulation and Dynamics Elaine Angelino (UC Berkeley)
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Demographic Inference using the Simons Genome Diversity Project Iain Mathieson (Harvard University)
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break