The talks are aimed at final year undergraduate/beginning postgraduate students in biology, mathematics, and computer science, and will address the problems and challenges of reconstructing evolutionary relationships from molecular sequence data. The interdisciplinary nature of phylogenetic studies -- biological, computational, and mathematical problems arise naturally -- will be highlighted
- 13:00 – 14:00
- Professor Peter Lockhart (Massey University, New Zealand) Phylogenetic models and the origins of chloroplasts
- 14:00 – 15:00
- Professor Tandy Warnow (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) Algorithm design for large-scale phylogenetic analysis
- 15:00 – 15:30
- Tea
- 15:30 – 16:30
- Professor John A Rhodes (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA) Phylogenetic models and algebra
- 16:30 – 17:30
- Professor Andreas Dress (Chinese Adacemy of Sciences, China) Phylogenetic combinatorics: analysing branching patterns in evolutionary trees
- 17:30 – 18:30
- Wine Reception at the Newton Institute
Anyone interested is welcome to attend; talks will be aimed at a general mathematical audience. Please let Tracey Andrew at the Institute know by 30 November 2007 if you intend to come: telephone (01223) 760992; fax: (01223) 330508; e-mail: t.andrew@newton.ac.uk
There are limited funds available to assist research students to attend, please apply by 30 November 2007 to Tracey Andrew by email or post at the Newton Institute, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EH.
Scientific enquiries may be addressed to Elizabeth Allman