DIMACS Working Group Meeting on Mathematical and Computational Aspects Related to the Study of The Tree of Life

March 11-14, 2003
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:
Melvin F. Janowitz, DIMACS, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu
Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Universite de Montreal, lapoinf@biol.umontreal.ca
F. R. McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology, mcmorris@iit.edu
Fred Roberts, DIMACS, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Computational Molecular Biology and the Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology.


Preliminary Program - subject to change:

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Tuesday, March 11, 2003

 8:00 -  The van leaves the Holiday Inn	to bring participants to DIMACS

 8:00 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 -  9:10  Welcome and Greeting:
	       Fred S. Roberts, DIMACS Director 
               Melvin F. Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director
 
 Session Chair: Melvin F. Janowitz, DIMACS
        
 9:10 - 10:05  The Tree of Life: Challenges for Discrete Mathematics
                 and Theoretical Computer Science 
               Fred S. Roberts, DIMACS, Rutgers University 

10:10 - 11:05  From Parsimony to Likelihood, A One Parameter 
	       Family of Phylogenetic Estimators for Complex Datasets
	       Junhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania

11:05 - 11:35  Break

11:35 - 12:30  Lengths of Branches in the Coalescence Tree and 
                 Frequencies of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
                 Under Evolution with Time-Varying Population Size
	       Andrzej Polanski, Rice University 

12:30 -  2:30  Lunch and Discussions 

 Session Chair: Mark Wilkinson, Natural History Museum, London

 2:30 -  3:25  A Comparative Study of Flip-Supertrees
	       Oliver Eulenstein, Iowa State University 

 3:25 -  4:00  Break

 4:00 -  4:50  Genome Rearrangement Phylogeny 
               Li-San Wang, University of Texas

 5:00 -  5:30  Informal Discussion

 6:00 -  The van leaves DIMACS to take participants to the Holiday Inn

Wednesday, March 12, 2003
 8:15 -  The van leaves the Holiday Inn to bring participants to DIMACS

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 Session Chair: Melvin F. Janowitz, DIMACS

 9:00 -  9:55  What Do Biologists Want from Supertrees?
               Mark Wilkinson, Natural History Museum, London

10:00 - 10:55  What Do Mathematicians Think That Biologists Want 
	         From Supertrees?  An Axiomatic Perspective
               Bill Day, Port Maitland, Nova Scotia 

10:55 - 11:25  Break

11:25 - 12:20  Phylogenetic Supertrees: Seeing the Data For the Trees
               Olaf Bininda-Emonds, Technical University of Munich 
				
12:25 -  2:25  Lunch

 Session Chair: Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Universite de Montreal

 2:25 -  3:20  Supertrees: Algorithms and Databases
	       Rod Page, University of Glasgow

 3:20 -  3:50  Break

 4:00 -  4:50  Panel Discussion on Supertrees with Day, McMorris, 
               Bininda-Emonds, Lapointe and Wilkinson 

 5:00 -  The van leaves DIMACS to take participants to the Holiday Inn

 6:00 -  8:00  Reception at the Holiday Inn

Thursday, March 13, 2003
 8:15 -  The van leaves the Holiday Inn to bring participants to DIMACS 

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 Session Chair: Bill Day, Port Maitland, Nova Scotia 

 9:00 -  9:55  Phyloinformatic Methods of Finding Strands in the Forest
               William Piel, University of Buffalo

10:00 - 10:55  Approaching Arthropod Phylogeny:  The comparative analysis
               of genomic, anatomical, and paleontological information
               Ward Wheeler, American Museum of Natural History 

10:55 - 11:25  Break

11:25 - 12:20  Average Trees, Supertrees and Splitstrees
               Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Universite de Montreal 

12:25 -  2:25  Lunch 

 Session Chair: Fred McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology

 2:25 -  3:20  Large-Scale Phylogenetic Inference
               Mark Pagel, University of Reading

 3:20 -  3:50  Break

 3:55 -  4:45  A Search for the Bacterial Phylogeny - A Supertree Aproach
               Christopher Creevey, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

 4:45 -  5:30  Discussion

 6:00 -  The van leaves DIMACS to take participants to the Holiday Inn
Friday, March 14, 2003
 8:15 -  The van leaves the Holiday Inn to bring participants to DIMACS 

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 Session Chair: Olaf Bininda-Emonds, Technical University of Munich

 9:00 -  9:55  Strategies for Assembling the Tree of Life with W-curves 
                 of Long Genomic Sequences
               D.J. Cork, S. Lembark

10:00 - 10:55  Balanced Minimum Evolution: A Fast Algorithm for Building
                 Large Trees
               Richard Desper, National Institutes of Health 

10:55 - 11:25  Break

11:25 - 12:20  Dimension Reduction via Dimensional Analysis
 	         and Multiplicative Neural Networks, and Unified
                 Datamining and Datawarehousing
	       H.M. Hubey, Montclair State University

12:25 -  2:25  Lunch

 2:45 -  The van leaves DIMACS to take participants to the Holiday Inn


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