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Workshop 3 Schedule
All talks will take place in the MBI Lecture Hall (Math Building Room 240) unless noted otherwise.

Monday, February 6th

9:45 - 10:00 a.m.	Welcome from the organizers
10:00 - 11:15 a.m.	Roger Butlin "Adaptation to environmental gradients: observations on Littorina saxatilis and a simulation"
11:15 - 11:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:45 p.m.	Ilkka Hanski "Spatially realistic models of metapopulation dynamics"
12:45 - 2:15 p.m.	Lunch Break
2:15 - 3:30 p.m.	Sylvain Gandon "Fluctuating epistasis (with or without coevolution) and the evolution of recombination in a metapopulation"
3:30 - 3:45 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:45 - 5:00 p.m.	Scott L. Nuismer "Polygenic traits and local adaptation in antagonistic interactions"
5:00 - 8:00 p.m.	Reception in 724 MW

Tuesday, February 7th

9:15 - 10:30 a.m.	Richard Harrison "Mosaic Hybrid Zones: Twenty Years After"
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.	Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 p.m.	Masakado Kawata "Speciation by sensory drive through the evolution of visual pigments along an environmental light gradient"
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch break
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.	Richard Gomulkiewicz "Fixation of new mutations in spatially variable environments" Mark Kirkpatrick "Chromosome inversions, local adaptation, and speciation"
2:45 - 3:00 p.m.	Coffee break
3:00 - 4:15 p.m.	Alan McKane "Stochastic models in biology and their deterministic analogs"
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.	Bob Holt "Reflections on demographic constraints and evolution in heterogeneous environments"
7:00 p.m.	Public Lecture Series: Ransom A. Myers Fawcett Center Auditorium 2400 Olentangy River Road

Wednesday, February 8th

9:15 -10:30 a.m.	Edmund D. Brodie III "Phenotypic mismatches across the geographic range of a predator-prey arms race"
10:30 -10:45 a.m.	Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 p.m.	Craig W. Benkman "A coevolutionary arms race causes ecological speciation in red crossbills"
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch break
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.	Sergey Gavrilets "Dynamic patterns of adaptive radiation"
2:45 - 3:00 p.m.	Coffee break
3:00 - 4:15 p.m.	John N. Thompson "Coevolution, Geographic Ranges, and Speciation: Current Results and Unanswered Questions"

Thursday, February 9th

9:15 -10:30 a.m.	Jane Hill "Evolutionary changes during climate-driven range expansion"
10:30 -10:45 a.m.	Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 p.m.	Laurent Excoffier "The effect of spatial expansions on neutral molecular diversity"
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch break
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.	Troy Day "Evolutionary change in spatially distributed populations: a kin selection perspective"
2:45 - 3:00 p.m.	Coffee break
3:00 - 4:15 p.m.	Jordi Bascompte "The spatial dimension of ecological networks"
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.	Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen "The Tangled Nature model: a study of community structure, species area relation and species diversity within a model of co-evolution"
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.	Banquet Dinner at the Holiday Inn

Friday, February 10th

9:15 -10:30 a.m.	Jim Mallet "Speciation in sympatry: is it so difficult?"
10:30 -10:45 a.m.	Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 p.m.	Mark Kirkpatrick "Chromosome inversions, local adaptation, and speciation"

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