IIASA’s annual 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with IIASA’s ongoing research on issues of global environmental, economic and social change. From June through August accepted participants work within the … Continue reading
The thematic program “Mathematical Biology” will be held in Lyon from March 4th to June 14th, 2013. The main topics to be addressed in this program are: cell biology, population dynamics, quantitative modeling for drug development, systems biology, and evolutionary … Continue reading
The main topics to be highlighted during the workshop are mathematical models for evolutionary biology (deterministic models and stochastic processes) adaptive dynamics modeling of invasive species Recent progresses have been made in the modeling of biological invasions and evolution, from … Continue reading
Coalescent theory is one of the most elegant and powerful probabilistic approaches in mathematical population genetics. It formalizes the backward perspective on evolution in large finite populations by considering a population evolving forward in time under the effects of various … Continue reading
Models of evolution of biological sequences have gone a long way since Jukes and Cantor. First, it is no longer acceptable to consider that mutations of a given type occur independently and uniformIy across time and space. A large number … Continue reading
One of the most compelling images to result from Darwin’s theory of evolution is that of the tree of life. Inherent in this picture is the idea that when members of a species are geographically separated, over time they may … Continue reading