International Symposium on Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Biology
Program
All lectures will be held in MPI MiS Conference Center,
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Inselstraße 22).
| Monday, August 26, 2013 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Jürgen Jost (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) Laudatio | |
| Herbert Jäckle (Vicepresident, Max Planck Society, Germany) Welcome address | ||
| Eberhard Neumann (Universität Bielefeld, Germany) Welcome address | ||
| Coffee & Tea | ||
| Ib Madsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Real algebraic K-theory (see abstract) | ||
| Li Felix Jin (Fudan University, China) Genomic analysis of human populations: from admixture to introgression | ||
| 18:00 | Reception at the conference center | |
| 19:00 | Dinner (à la carte and on individual payment) | |
| Tuesday, August 27, 2013 | ||
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Ancestral reconstruction, lateral gene transfer, and the joys of leaping between trees (see abstract) | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Martin Vingron (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany) Likes and dislikes and concerted action among regulating factors on a genome | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Hans Jürgen Bandelt (Universität Hamburg, Germany) Holistic clustering and oriented matroids | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Vincent Moulton (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom) 30 years of tight-spans and still going strong! (see abstract) | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Kay Nieselt (Universität Tübingen, Germany) The SuperGenome, a new concept for comparative genomics and beyond (see abstract) | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Gunnar Brinkmann (Ghent University, Belgium) Structure generation: applications, methods, problems and solutions (see PDF abstract) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Stefan Grünewald (CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB), China) The quartet distance between phylogenetic trees and an application beyond phylogenetics (see abstract) | |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Dragan Stevanović (University of Niš, Serbia, and University of Primorska, Slovenia) Principal eigenvector potpourri (see abstract) | |
Date and Location
August 26 - 27, 2013
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany
see travel instructions
Scientific Organizers
Jürgen JostMax-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften
Peter Stadler
Leipzig University
Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics
Administrative Contact
Antje VandenbergMax Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
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