NDNS+ Biomathematics Leiden

In the Spring of 2006 starting January 26 at 11.00 the working group NDNS+ Biomathematics will organize a seminar on the book Evolutionary Theory by Sean Rice. See for details.

Organization of the course

• Patsy Haccou and Hans Metz will present the Introduction, Chapter 1 on Selection on one locus and Chapter 2 on Selection on two loci
• Frank Redig/Floske Spieksma/Aad van der Vaart/Erik van Zwet (with help of Hans Metz) will present Chapter 3 on Drift, Chapter 4 on Effective Population Size-The Ecology of Drift, and Chapter 5 on Diffusion Theory-Combining Selection and Drift
• Sander Hille and Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel will present Chapter 6 on Price\'s Theorem
• Aad van der Vaart will present Chapter 7 on Quantitative Genetics
• Sander Hille and Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel will present Chapter 8 on Evolution of Gene Interactions and Development
• Patsy Haccou, Hans Metz and Floske Spieksma will present Chapter 9 on Game Theory.

Weekly schedule and homework

• Jan 26: introduction by Patsy;
• Feb 2: chapter 1 by Patsy; read up to page 23;
• Feb 9: part one of chapter 2 by Hans; read up to page 43;
• Feb 16: chapter 2 by Hans; read chapter 1 and chapter 2;
• Feb 23: no meeting;
• March 2: no meeting;
• March 9: chapter 2 by Hans; read chapter 1 and chapter 2; additional notes Hoppensteadt; additional notes Epistatis
• March 16: chapter 3 by Aad; read first part chapter 3; Additional material: Lecture notes by Frank den H on Stochastic models for genetic evolution can be downloaded here;
• March 23: chapter 3 by Aad; read second part chapter 3;additional material on the coalescent from Branching processes by P. Haccou, P. Jagers, V. Vatutin, on the theory Section 7.1 and application Section 7.2
• March 30: chapter 4 by Erik; read first part chapter 4
• April 6: chapter 4 by Erik and additional comments by Hans; read chapter 4
• April 13: no meeting
• April 20: no meeting
• April 27: no meeting, because of a special day organized by Hans and Patsy at Theorecical Biology
• May 4: no meeting
• May 11: chapter 5 by Frank R; read first part chapter 5;
• May 18: chapter 5 by Frank R; read second part chapter 5;
• May 25: no meeting;
• June 1: discussion meeting;
• June 8: Last meeting before the Summer break. Frank R will complete the presentation of Chapter 5. Additional Lecture notes by Frank R can be downloaded here;

Information about the course

• Dates: weekly, Thursday morning, 11.00-13.00, starting January 26
• Place: Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden, room 4.01
• Books can be obtained at a discount rate
• Upon request the notes of a course by Frank den Hollander this past Fall which will be relevant when studying Chapter 3 can be provided.
• A site with explainations of basic definitions and notions from biology, see basic notions

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