DIMACS Minisymposium on Advances in Phylogenetics Inference Methods: Program

Friday, March 20, 1998

10.00 - 10.15 Tandy Warnow, 
              Opening Remarks

10.15 - 10.45 Mike Steel, 
              Invariable Sites Models

11.00 - 11.25 Jens Stoye, 
              Using Divide-and-Conquer Techniques
              to Speed Up Simultaneous Multiple Sequence Alignment


11.25 - 11.50 Shibu Yooseph, 
              Optimal Tree Refinement

12.00 - 1.30  Lunch

 1.30 -  2.00 Andreas Dress, 
              The Conjecture 

 2.15 -  2.40 Kevin Atteson,
              Calculating the Maximum Likelihood Time of Divergence
              under a Reversible Continuous-Time Markov Chain


 2.40 -  3.05 Vincent Moulton, 
              Buneman Trees, Graphs and Complexes 

 3.10 -  3.35 Rick Desper, 
              Tree-Based Models for the Genetics of Cancer Tumor Progression


 3.35 -  4.00 Daniel Huson, 
              Disk-Covering Big Trees

Participants:

Kevin Atteson, Biology, Yale University

Rick Desper, Maths, Rutgers University

Andreas Dress, Maths, Bielefeld University, Germany

Daniel Huson, DIMACS, PACM Princeton University

Junhyong Kim, Biology, Yale University

Vincent Moulton, Mid Sweden University

Mike Steel, Maths, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Jens Stoye, CS, UC Davis

Tandy Warnow, CIS, University of Pennsylvania

Shibu Yooseph, DIMACS, Rutgers University

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