Combinatorial vector fields and the valley structure of fitness landscapes
Feb 7, 2011, 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM | 740 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Josh Abramson, UC Berkeley (Speaker)
Fitness landscapes represent the reproductive value of certain attributes or gene sequences. Species are assumed to evolve to higher values of fitness through adaptive (uphill) walks on these landscapes. Barbel and Peter Stadler have introduced a framework in which adaptive walks are interpreted as trajectories in combinatorial vector fields, and give likelihood weights to...