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2008-09 Program on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics

Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics Workshop

April 2-3, 2009

General Information
Application
Schedule

General Information

Recently there has been a marked synergy between modern biology and higher mathematics. A number of important connections have been established between computational biology and the emerging field of "algebraic statistics", which combines combinatorics, computational algebra, polyhedral geometry and statistical modeling. The primary objective of this workshop is to bring together new and established researchers in mathematics, biology, and statistics in order to discuss the crossover between algebraic statistics, molecular evolution and phylogenetics.

Examples of topics of interest in the workshop are:

phylogenetic combinatorics
algorithms for alignment and phylogenetic reconstruction
evolutionary models
phylogenetic tree space
statistical analysis on gene trees
phylogenomics
phylogenetic networks

The workshop will be held at SAMSI.

Organizing Committee: Peter Huggins, Erick Matsen, Ruriko Yoshida

Speakers: Cecile Ane (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Jesus Fernandez-Sanchez (UPC Barcelona Tech), Junhyong Kim (University of Pennsylvania), Laura Kubatko (Ohio State University), Fumei Lam (Univ. of California-Davis), Sonja Petrovic (University of Illinois-Chicago), Eric Stone (N.C. State University), Seth Sullivant (N.C. State University), Jeremy Sumner (University of Tasmania), Jeff Thorne (N.C. State University), Tandy Warnow (University of Texas-Austin)

Application

Registration is closed. Workshop capacity has been reached.

Please make reservations at the Radisson RTP as soon as possible. The SAMSI room block and rate ($109) is effective until March 16, 2009. After this date, there is no guarantee a room will be available. If you have a change in plans, individual room reservations must be cancelled 72 hours prior to arrival. Check-in is at 3:00 PM; check-out is 12:00 noon.

Schedule

Thursday, April 2, 2009
NISS/SAMSI Building

8:15-8:45	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00	Welcome
9:00-10:00	Jeff Thorne, N.C. State University Making Inferences About the Impact of Phenotype on Genotype from the Ancestral Lineage
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-11:00	Cecile Ane, University of Wisconsin-Madison Identifiability of Trait Evolution Models
11:00-11:45	Laura Kubatko, Ohio State University Distributions Arising on Gene Trees Under the Coalescent Model
11:45-12:15	Discussion with Speakers
12:15-2:15	Lunch
2:15-3:15	Junhyong Kim , University of Pennsylvania Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns in Phylogeny Reconstruction
3:15-4:00	Eric Stone, North Carolina State University Something Old, Something New: A phylogenetic application of the combinatorial graph Laplacian
4:00-4:15	Break and Poster set-up
4:15-4:45	Discussion with Speakers
4:45-5:00	Poster Advertisements (2 minute ads each)
5:00-7:00	Poster Session and Reception SAMSI will provide poster presentation boards and tape. The board dimensions are 4 ft. wide by 3 ft. high. They are tri-fold with each side being 1 ft. wide and the center 2 ft. wide. Please make sure your poster fits the board. The boards can accommodate up to 16 pages of paper measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches.

Friday, April 3, 2009
NISS/SAMSI Building

8:30-9:00	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00	Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University The Geometry of Phylogenetic Mixtures
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-11:00	Jeremy Sumner, University of Tasmania Markov Invariants in Phylogenetics: the Quartet Case Done to Death
11:00-11:45	Sonja Petrovic, University of Illinois-Chicago Group-based Models in Phylogenetics and Related Problems
11:45-12:15	Discussion with Speakers
12:15-2:15	Lunch
2:15-3:15	Tandy Warnow, University of Texas-Austin SATe: A New Method for Simultaneous Estimation of Alignments and Trees
3:15-4:00	Jesus Fernandez-Sanchez, UPC Barcelona Tech Phylogenetic Invariants of Equivariant Evolutionary Models
4:00-4:45	Fumei Lam, University of California-Davis TBA
4:45-5:15	Discussion with Speakers
5:15-6:30	Open Problems and Wrap-up

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