Probability Seminar: A Fleming-Viot process for multiscale evolutionary dynamics

Probability Seminar: A Fleming-Viot process for multiscale evolutionary dynamics

Probability Seminar
Apr 16, 2014, 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM | 332 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Shishi Luo, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Evolution by natural selection can act at multiple biological levels, often in opposing directions. This is particularly the case for pathogen evolution, which occurs both within the host it infects and via transmission between hosts, and for the evolution of cooperative behavior, where individually advantageous strategies are disadvantageous at the group level. In mathematical terms, these are...