Playlist: 29 videos Workshops

Computational Theories of Evolution

Mar. 17 – Mar. 21, 2014

During the past decade, models and theories of evolution have been articulated which were inspired by computational considerations: examples are Valiant's evolvability, and the theory of mixability for the role of sex. The...

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Presentation of Evolvability

Leslie Valiant, Harvard University, Vitaly Feldman, IBM Almaden, Varun Kanade, UC Berkeley, and Elaine Angelino, Harvard University
Computational Theories of Evolution
http://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/presentation-evolvability-2014-03-17
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0:53:45

Molecular Errors, Cryptic Sequences, and Evolvability

Joanna Masel, University of Arizona
Computational Theories of Evolution
http://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/joanna-masel-2014-03-17
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0:43:51

Autocatalytic Sets and Models of Early Life

Mike Steel, University of Canterbury
Computational Theories of Evolution
http://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/mike-steel-2014-03-17
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0:51:42

The Evolution of Evolvability

Lee Altenberg, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
Computational Theories of Evolution
http://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/lee-altenberg-2014-03-17
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1:3:33

Presentation of Evolution and Algorithms

Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley and Umesh Vazirani, UC Berkeley
Computational Theories of Evolution
http://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/presentation-evolution-algorithms-2014-03-18
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0:39:33

What Limits the Efficiency of Natural Selection?

Nick Barton, IST Austria
Computational Theories of Evolution
http://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/nick-barton-2014-03-18
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1:7:9

Interaction-based Evolution: How Natural Selection and Non-accidental Mutation Work Together

Adi Livnat, Virginia Tech
Computational Theories of Evolution
http://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/adi-livnat-2014-03-18
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2:3:25

Variation in Regulatory Information Within and Between Species

Leslie Valiant, Harvard University, Vitaly Feldman, IBM Almaden, Varun Kanade, UC Berkeley, and Elaine Angelino, Harvard University
Computational Theories of Evolution
http://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/presentation-evolvability-2014-03-17
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0:59:15

Birth and Death of Fragile Chromosomal Regions in Mammalian Evolution

Pavel Pevzner, UC San Diego
Computational Theories of Evolution
http://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/pavel-pevzner-2014-03-18
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0:52:26

Evolution of Dynamic Models for Embryonic Patterning and Their Geometric Representation

Eric Siggia, Rockefeller University
Computational Theories of Evolution
http://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/eric-siggia-2014-03-19
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