Evolutionary Biology Boot Camp

Jan 21, 2014 to Jan 24, 2014

The Boot Camp is intended to acquaint program participants with the key themes of the program. It will consist of eleven extended lectures given by experts on various topics as follows:

Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
8:30 am–8:50 am		Coffee and Check-In
8:50 am–9:00 am		Opening Remarks
9:00 am–9:45 am		Historical Development of Evolutionary Biology I Montgomery Slatkin, UC Berkeley
9:45 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:45 am		Historical Development of Evolutionary Biology II Montgomery Slatkin, UC Berkeley
10:45 am–11:15 am		Break
11:15 am–12:00 pm		Mathematical Models in Population Genetics I Steven Evans, UC Berkeley, Anand Bhaskar, UC Berkeley, and Shishi Luo, Duke University
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch Break
1:30 pm–2:15 pm		Mathematical Models in Population Genetics II Steven Evans, UC Berkeley, Anand Bhaskar, UC Berkeley, and Shishi Luo, Duke University
2:15 pm–2:30 pm		Break
2:30 pm–3:15 pm		Mathematical Models in Population Genetics III Steven Evans, UC Berkeley, Anand Bhaskar, UC Berkeley, and Shishi Luo, Duke University
3:15 pm–3:45 pm		Break
3:45 pm–5:00 pm		Phylogenetics Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:45 am		The Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth I Charles Marshall, UC Berkeley
9:45 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:45 am		The Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth II Charles Marshall, UC Berkeley
10:45 am–11:15 am		Break
11:15 am–12:00 pm		Speciation I Charles H. Langley, UC Davis
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch Break
1:30 pm–2:15 pm		Speciation II Charles H. Langley, UC Davis
2:15 pm–2:45 pm		Break
2:45 pm–3:30 pm		Natural Selection and Adaptation I Rasmus Nielsen, UC Berkeley
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Break
4:00 pm–4:45 pm		Natural Selection and Adaptation II Rasmus Nielsen, UC Berkeley

Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–10:00 am		Computational Views of Evolution I Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
10:00 am–10:30 am		Break
10:30 am–11:30 am		Computational Views of Evolution II Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
11:30 am–1:00 pm		Lunch Break
1:00 pm–2:00 pm		Evolution as Computational Learning I Varun Kanade, UC Berkeley
2:00 pm–2:30 pm		Break
2:30 pm–3:30 pm		Evolution as Computational Learning II Varun Kanade, UC Berkeley

Friday, January 24th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:45 am		Experimental Evolution I Oskar Hallatschek, UC Berkeley
9:45 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:45 am		Experimental Evolution II Oskar Hallatschek, UC Berkeley
10:45 am–11:15 am		Break
11:15 am–12:00 pm		Statistical Physics Views of Evolution I Boris Shraiman, UC Santa Barbara
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch Break
1:30 pm–2:15 pm		Statistical Physics Views of Evolution II Boris Shraiman, UC Santa Barbara
2:15 pm–2:45 pm		Break
2:45 pm–3:30 pm		Evolution of Complexity Iain Mathieson, University of Oxford