Seminar 13th June 2011 8 a.m. University of Manchester
Complexity of evolutionary processes in biology and the behavioural sciences
Professor Alan Grafen and others
- Web page
- http://www.theory.physics.manchester.ac.uk/~galla/ncpmeeting2011/ncpmeeting.html
- Categories
- Complex Systems, Developmental Biology, Evolution, Optimisation
- Submitter
- Petrina Butler
IOP Meeting: Nonlinear and Complex Physics Group
The Nonlinear and Complex Physics Group of the Institute of Physics present a 1-day workshop:
Complexity of evolutionary processes in biology and the behavioural sciences
Membership of the IOP is not required to come to the meeting, and there is no registration fee.
Keynote Talk
Alan Grafen, Professor of Theoretical Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
A third kind of mathematical optimisation principle can help bring Darwinian order to equations of motion for gene frequencies
Contributed Talks
We anticipate a series of 20-minute talks throughout the day, roughly from 10.30am to 4.00pm to facilitate travel to and from Manchester on the same day.
Registration
The theme of the meeting should be interpreted in a broad sense. We hope to attract participants and contributions from researchers interested in evolutionary complexity in a variety of disciplines, for example in biology, applied mathematics, theoretical physics, but also from economics and the social sciences. We also hope that participants and speakers will include theoretical modellers as well as experimentalists, or researchers focusing on data-driven work.
If you would like to attend please let us know (by email) by the 15th of April 2011, and indicate whether or not you would like to contribute to the programme.
If you do please include a title and short abstract.
We can be contacted by email at: Tobias Galla (tobias.galla@manchester.ac.uk), Mauro Mobilia (m.mobilia@leeds.ac.uk).
We would like to encourage postgraduate students and post-docs as well as more experienced researchers to contribute.
Organisers
Tobias Galla (University of Manchester), Mauro Mobilia (University of Leeds).
Further information
Further information, such as travel directions, details on the exact venue, and of course a programme will be posted here in due course. This information will als be emailed to all registered participants closer to the time of the meeting.