• 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 (Tel Aviv 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 Munich), Daniel Živković (Ludwig-Maximilian-University 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