The Boot Camp is intended to acquaint program participants with the key themes of the program. It will consist of eleven extended lectures given by experts on various topics as follows:

Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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Historical Development of Evolutionary Biology I
Montgomery Slatkin (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Historical Development of Evolutionary Biology II
Montgomery Slatkin (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Mathematical Models in Population Genetics I
Steven Evans (UC Berkeley), Anand Bhaskar (Stanford University), Shishi Luo (UC Berkeley)
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Lunch Break
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Mathematical Models in Population Genetics II
Steven Evans (UC Berkeley), Anand Bhaskar (Stanford University), Shishi Luo (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Mathematical Models in Population Genetics III
Steven Evans (UC Berkeley), Anand Bhaskar (Stanford University), Shishi Luo (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Phylogenetics
Sebastien Roch (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Coffee and Check-In
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The Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth I
Charles Marshall (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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The Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth II
Charles Marshall (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Speciation I
Charles H. Langley (UC Davis)
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Lunch Break
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Speciation II
Charles H. Langley (UC Davis)
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Break
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Natural Selection and Adaptation I
Rasmus Nielsen (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Natural Selection and Adaptation II
Rasmus Nielsen (UC Berkeley)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Computational Views of Evolution I
Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University)
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Break
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Computational Views of Evolution II
Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University)
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Lunch Break
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Evolution as Computational Learning I
Varun Kanade (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Evolution as Computational Learning II
Varun Kanade (UC Berkeley)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Experimental Evolution I
Oskar Hallatschek (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Experimental Evolution II
Oskar Hallatschek (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Statistical Physics Views of Evolution I
Boris Shraiman (UC Santa Barbara)
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Lunch Break
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Statistical Physics Views of Evolution II
Boris Shraiman (UC Santa Barbara)
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Break
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Evolution of Complexity
Iain Mathieson (Harvard University)