Workshop on Coalescent Theory: New Developments and Applications

October 7-11, 2013

Program

 

Monday, October 7, 2013

08:30 - 08:55
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

08:55 - 09:00
Welcoming addresses
09:00 - 09:45
Andrew G. Clark
(Cornell University)
Population genomics of extinction
Abstract
09:45 - 10:30
Matthias Birkner
(Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität)
Ancestral lineages in locally regulated populations
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:30
Ethan Jewett
(Stanford University)
On the accuracy of deterministic approximations to coalescent formulas
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:30 - 12:15
Paul Marjoram
(University of Southern California)
Approximate Bayesian computation and the coalescent
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch
Room(s) 6245
13:30 - 14:15
Yun S. Song
(UC Berkeley)
Identifiability and efficient inference of demographic models under the coalescent
Abstract
14:15 - 15:00
Adam J. Auton
(Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Quantifying de novo mutation in 131 high coverage trios
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:00
Arnaud Jegousse
(CIMAT AC)
Minimal clade size in the Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent
Abstract
16:00 - 16:45
Julien Berestycki
(UPMC)
Branching Brownian motion with absorption: the critical case
Abstract

 

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:45
Noah Rosenberg
(Stanford University)
Combinatorial peculiarities of the coalescent on species trees
Abstract
09:45 - 10:30
John Novembre
(University of Chicago)
Rare variants, selection, and recent population demography in humans
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:30
Kasper Munch
(Aarhus University)
Constructing recombination maps of ancestral species
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Iain Mathieson
(University of Oxford)
The distribution of the ages of rare variants
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
12:00 - 14:15
Lunch Break and Poster Session
Room(s) 6245
14:15 - 15:00
Ola Hössjer
(Stockholm University)
A general framework for modeling effective sizes and gene differentiation of structured populations
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 15:30
Arash Jamshidpey
(University of Ottawa)
Median, tree indexed random walks, and phylogeny reconstruction
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:45
Thomas Mailund
(Aarhus University)
Ancestral population genomics with coalescent hidden Markov models
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

 

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:45
Jochen Blath
(TU Berlin, Fakultät II )
Statistical properties of the site-frequency spectrum for lambda-coalescents
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
09:45 - 10:30
Étienne Pardoux
(Université de Provence)
Lambda-coalescent and look-down model with selection
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:45
James Degnan
(University of Canterbury)
Properties of unrooted gene tree topologies under the multspecies coalescent
Abstract
11:45 - 12:30
Simon Gravel
(McGill University)
Reconstructing native American migrations from whole-genome and whole-exome data
Abstract

12:30 - 19:30
Free afternoon

Session - CRM Public Lecture
Meeting room(s) : S1-151, Pavillon Jean-Coutu

19:30 - 20:30
Robert C. Griffiths
(University of Oxford)
The Mathematics of Evolution
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

20:30
Reception

 

Thursday, October 10, 2013

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:45
Shuhei Mano
(The Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
Ancestral processes with collision and bias
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
09:45 - 10:30
Xiaowen Zhou
(Concordia University)
Properties of Lambda-Fleming-Viot processes with Brownian mutation
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:30
Lars Nørvang Andersen
(University of Aarhus)
Maximum likelihood inference in a multispecies coalescent model with migration
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:30 - 12:15
Simon Myers
(University of Oxford)
Inferring past admixture events, isolation and size changes in human populations using haplotype sharing
Abstract
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch
Room(s) 6245
13:30 - 14:15
Eimear Kenny
(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Leveraging population structure for disease loci discovery
Diapos / Slides
14:15 - 15:00
Yufeng Wu
(University of Connecticut)
Algorithms and applications of likelihood computation under multi-species coalescent
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:00
John Kamm
(UC Berkeley)
Applying coalescent hidden Markov models to hundreds of samples
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
16:00 - 16:45
John Wakeley
(Harvard University)
The effects of population pedigrees on gene genealogies
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

 

Friday, October 11, 2013

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:45
Robert C. Griffiths
(University of Oxford)
Neutral Wright-Fisher bridges
Abstract
09:45 - 10:30
Graham Coop
(UCDavis)
The coalescent with soft sweeps
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:45
Julie Hussin
(University of Oxford)
The impact of variable recombination on human mutation load
Abstract
11:45 - 12:30
Warren J. Ewens
(University of Pennsylvania)
On the origins of the coalescent
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
Room(s) 6245