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:
- one from 16 December 2002 - 20 December 2002
- the other from 17 February 2003 - 21 February 2003
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 February
2003 workshop
Links for Après-Sci
Last change: 17.11.03 webmaster@schubert.math-inf.uni-greifswald.de