Mathematical Biosciences Institute

Current Topics Workshop Schedule
All talks will take place in the MBI Lecture Hall (Math Building Room 240) unless noted otherwise. Each talk is 30 minutes plus 15 minutes of questions and discussion.

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Coffee and Registration
9:00 - 9:15 a.m.	Welcome and Introduction by Avner Friedman
9:15 -10:00 a.m.	Walter Fitch: Inferring migration from phylogenies
10:00 -10:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:30- 11:15 a.m.	Diego Pol: Strategies for Parallelizing of Heuristic Tree Searches Using Parsimony
11:15 - 11:45 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:30 p.m.	Dan Janies: Applications of large-scale phylogenetic analysis for research in emerging infectious disease
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.	Lunch Break
2:00 - 2:45 p.m.	Usman Roshan: Co-evolution of DCMs and base-methods for phylogeny reconstruction
2:45 - 3:15 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:00 p.m.	Pablo Goloboff: On divide and conquer strategies for parsimony analysis of large data sets
4:00 - 4:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:15 p.m.	James Farris
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.	Banquet at the Holiday Inn