The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics (ESI) in Vienna, Austria,
will be funding a program on

Mathematical Population Genetics and Statistical Physics

from December 2002 to February 2003;
and a follow-up meeting in December 2003.



 



Organizers: Ellen Baake, Greifswald

Michael Baake, Greifswald

Reinhard Bürger, Vienna

Günter Wagner, Yale

General information

Programs at the ESI are intended to bring together leading scientists working in a field and give them the opportunity of collaborating here in Vienna for a couple of weeks.The main focus of this program will be on multilocus genetics, on stochastic processes in population genetics, and on the relations to statistical physics and applied mathematics. The main purpose is, of course, to foster interaction among participants, thus providing the possibility of advancing research in this field and breaking new ground.

In addition, two workshops will be held:

The follow-up meeting will be held December 8-19, 2003.


Background and scope of  this program

Population genetics seeks to describe biological evolution at the level of gene-frequency changes in populations. Its mathematical tools have been developed since the beginning of the 20th century; they are thus young if compared to mathematical physics, but highly developed if compared with most other fields of theoretical biology, which are much younger.

This program shall be focused on two branches that are interrelated, mathematically highly developed, and of great biological interest: multilocus genetics and its applications to phenotypic evolution, and stochastic processes relevant in molecular genetics and related fields.
 

Participants of the December 2002 program

N. Barton, A. Bovier, D. Dawson, K. Dawson,  T. Garske, S. Gavrilets, A. Greven, U. Grimm, R. Haygood, J. Hermisson, M. Klein, T. Johnson, S. Lessard, Y. Lyubich, V. Passekov, O. Redner, M. Turelli, A. Wakolbinger.

For a list of talks see http://www.esi.ac.at/activities/lectures.html.
 

Participants of the December 2002 workshop

N. Barton, M. Birkner, D. Dawson, K. Dawson,  U. Dieckmann, T. Garske, S. Gavrilets, A. Gimelfarb, A. Greven, R. Haygood, J. Hermisson, T. Johnson, V. Kirzhner, A. Klenke, S. Lessard, Y. Lyubich, C. Matessi,V. Passekov, L. Peliti, O. Redner, C. Richard, F. Tria, M. Turelli, A. Wakolbinger, I. Zaehle, L. Zhivotovsky.

Participants of the January/February 2003 program

A. Bovier,  W. Ewens, J. Geiger, H.-O. Georgii, J. Gillespie, R. Griffiths, U. Grimm, S. Grossmann, A. v. Haeseler, V. Hutson, P. Jagers, M. Klein, M. Notohara, P. Slade, W. Stephan, A. Wagner, A. Wakolbinger, B. Yakir.

Participants for the February 2003 workshop

M. Benaim, A. Etheridge, W. Ewens, J. Geiger, H.-O. Georgii, J. Gillespie, R. Griffiths,  J. Hermisson, P. Jagers, G. Kersting, D. Metzler, M. Möhle, M. Notohara, P. Pfaffelhuber, P. Slade, W. Stephan, A. Sturm, A. Wakolbinger, X.-S. Zhang.
 

Participants of the December 2003 program

R. Bialowons, M. Birkner, A. Bovier, T. Garske, J. Gillespie, R. Griffiths, U. Grimm, I. Hildebrandt, R. Hudson, L. Imhof, P. Jagers, T. Johnson, G. Kersting, M. Moehle, M. Turelli, A. Wakolbinger, N. Zint.

Schedule for the December 2002 workshop

Schedule for the February 2003 workshop

Links for Après-Sci

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