Modeling and Theory in Population Biology
Videos from BIRS Workshop
Maria Servedio, University of North Carolina
Thursday Jan 11, 2024 11:10 - 11:35
The role of theory in evolutionary biology
Marcus Feldman, Stanford University
Thursday Jan 11, 2024 11:35 - 12:00
Reflections on theoretical population biology then and now
Joel E. Cohen, Rockefeller University
Thursday Jan 11, 2024 12:00 - 12:25
Prime numbers, variance functions, beetle larvae, aphids, and tornadoes: research in mathematical population biology leads to unexpected applications
Tanja Stadler, ETH - Zurich
Thursday Jan 11, 2024 12:25 - 12:50
Theoretical population biology in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Bruce Weir, University of Washington
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024 12:00 - 13:00
Forensic population genetics
Ailene MacPherson, Simon Fraser University
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
& Maria Servedio: Theory job search advice & career challenges in Math/Stat/Physics departments
Jerome Kelleher, University of Oxford
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Tutorial: Software series, "Coalescent simulation with msprime"
Montgomery Slatkin, University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Recorded interview with Montgomery Slatkin
Francois Bienvenu, Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Besançon
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024 12:00 - 12:30
Where do phylogenetic trees come from?
Mia Miyagi, Brown University
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024 12:30 - 13:00
Modeling introgression at linked loci
Ben Haller, Cornell University
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024 12:00 - 13:00
Tutorial: Software series - "SLiM"
Ailene MacPherson, Simon Fraser University
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Panel discussion: Modeling & Theory Community series - "Strategies for teaching mathematical topics in population biology"
Lenore Pipes, UC Berkeley
Wednesday Apr 3, 2024 12:00 - 12:30
A fast approximate maximum likelihood phylogenetic placement method scalable for massive environmental DNA datasets
Maria Martignoni, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wednesday Apr 3, 2024 12:30 - 13:00
Toward a unified theory of microbially mediated invasion
Alex Diaz-Papkovich, Brown University
Tuesday Apr 9, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Population genetics and Wikipedia
Marissa Baskett, University of California, Davis
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Models in service of conservation and restoration management: lessons from kelp forest systems
Deborah Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024 12:00 - 13:00
Interview: Reflections on the History of Modeling and Theory series
Maria Kieshnina, Institute For Advanced Study in Toulouse
Wednesday May 1, 2024 12:00 - 12:30
Efficiency and resilience of cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas
Alex Stein, Queen Mary University London
Wednesday May 1, 2024 12:30 - 13:00
A mathematical analysis of the mutational landscape in cancer before and after treatment
Simon Tavaré, Columbia University
Wednesday May 8, 2024 12:05 - 13:20
Birth and death processes in phylogenetics and population genetics
Amaury Lambert, Ecole Normale Superiure
Wednesday May 8, 2024 12:30 - 12:55
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa: Modernity and rejuvenation of the Yule 1925 model
Katia Koelle, Emory University
Wednesday May 8, 2024 12:55 - 13:20
Phylogenetic models in infectious disease epidemiology and evolution
Brian Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh
Tuesday May 14, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Interview: Reflections on the History of Modeling and Theory series
Ailene MacPherson, Simon Fraser University
Monday May 20, 2024 09:54 - 10:19
A call for Bayesian inference in local adaptation: what we can and can not learn from reciprocal transplant data [SESSION TITLE: SPATIAL MODELS]
Daniel Weissman, Emory University
Monday May 20, 2024 10:41 - 11:05
Inference in spatially structured populations
Oana Carja, Carnegie Mellon University
Monday May 20, 2024 11:06 - 11:37
Topological puzzles in biology: how structure shapes a system's evolution
Mark Broom, University of London
Monday May 20, 2024 13:07 - 13:31
Biological modelling: some average research [SESSION TITLE: POPULATION MODELS, GENERAL PRINCIPLES]
Brandon Ogbunu, Yale University
Monday May 20, 2024 13:31 - 14:06
On biological laws
Caroline Colijn, Simon Fraser University
Monday May 20, 2024 14:09 - 14:34
A theory, not just a theory, or not even a theory? Strengths and pitfalls of quantitative modelling
Hamish Spencer, University of Otago
Monday May 20, 2024 14:34 - 15:01
Flavors of history in population modelling
