PDF's of talks from "New Mathematical Challenges from Molecular Biology and Genetics"

Sept 6-11, 2009

• Nathanael Berestycki
  The frequency spectra of Lambda-coalescents
• Matthias Birkner
  Computing likelihoods under Lambda-coalescents
• Andy Clark
  Next-generation sequencing and inference of gene conversion in tandem arrays
• Rick Durrett
  Probability models of cancer development and progression
• Bjarki Eldon
  A two locus diploid Moran model with recombination
• Alison Etheridge
  Evolution in a spatial continuum
• Steve Evans
  Regulatory complex assembly, transcription, and traversal times of Markov chains
• Bob Griffiths
  A Lambda-coalescent dual process in a Cannings model with genic selection
• Ryan Gutenkunst
  Inferring the joint demographic history of multiple populations
• Jeff Jensen
  Identifying targets of selection in non-equilibrium populations
• Paul Joyce
  A general extreme value theory model for adaptation of DNA sequeunces
• Eric Matsen
  Polyhedral geometry and phyolgenetic tree inference on non tree metrics
• Martin Moehle
  Duality and asymptotics for a class of non-neutral discrete Moran models
• Rasmus Nielsen
  Probabilities of identity by descent in the human genome
• Peter Pfaffelhuber
  The distributed genomes of bacterial populations
• Ori Sarsayan
  A coalescent process with simulataneous multiple mergers
• Jason Schweinsberg
  The genealogy of branching Brownian motion with absorption
• Yun Song
  Closed form sampling formulas for the coalescent with recombination
• Jay Taylor
  Genealogical consequences of fecundity variance polymorphism
• Anton Wakolbinger
  When does Muller's ratchet click rarely?