• Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract and slides (if applicable).

Please note that this schedule is subject to change. All events take place in Calvin Lab.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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The Effect of Epistasis on the Response to Selection

Nick Barton (IST Austria)
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Learning by Prediction

Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University),
Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University)
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Break
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The Source of Creativity in Evolution

Adi Livnat (University of Haifa),
Adi Livnat (University of Haifa),
Adi Livnat (University of Haifa)
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Lunch
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Panel Discussion

Nick Barton (IST Austria),
Steven Evans (UC Berkeley),
Paul Valiant (Brown University)
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Break
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Simons-Berkeley Fellows’ Short Talks

Shishi Luo (UC Berkeley),
Iain Mathieson (Harvard University),
James Zou (Stanford University)
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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Applications of Explicit Ancestral Recombination Graph Inference in Human Genomics

Adam Siepel (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
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Species Tree Estimation Under the Coalescence Model

Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Break
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Simulating Evolution: Challenges and Insights

Paul Valiant (Brown University)
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The Mixing Time of Evolutionary Dynamics in Finite Populations

Nisheeth,
Vishnoi,
(,
Ecole,
Polytechnique,
Fédérale de Lausanne)
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Lunch
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Open Problems Discussion Session (Auditorium, 1st Floor Lounge and Room 116)
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Break
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Open Problems Discussion Session (Auditorium, 1st Floor Lounge and Room 116)
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Coffee and Check-In
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A Genetic and Socio-Economic Analysis of Human Assortative Mating Patterns

James Zou (Stanford University)
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The Effects of Migration and Assortative Mating on Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium

Eran Halperin (New York University)
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Break
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Simons-Berkeley Fellows’ Short Talks

Anand Bhaskar (Stanford University),
Sriram Sankararaman ,
(,
Harvard Medical School,
),
Daniel Živković (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich),
Daniel Živković (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
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Lunch
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Gene Expression: Regulation and Dynamics

Elaine Angelino (UC Berkeley),
Elaine Angelino (UC Berkeley)
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Demographic Inference using the Simons Genome Diversity Project

Iain Mathieson (Harvard University)
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Break