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Math 589

The theme of the seminar is hot topics in theoretical/computational ecology and evolution as seen by Nature, Science and PNAS

Instructors: Tom Hallam and Sergey Gavrilets

Organizational meeting: Jan. 13.

Meeting time&place: Wednesdays, 11:15-12:15 (Dabney 575)

SYLLABUS

  • Jan.22 (Rene Salinas):
    Main paper: Keeling et al. "Dynamics of the 2001 UK foot and Mouth Epidemic: Stochastic Dispersal in a Heterogeneous Landscape". Science 2001 294: 813-817.
    Additional reading: look here
  • Jan.29 (Sergey Gavrilets):
    Main paper: Doebeli and Dieckmann "Speciation along environmental gradients" Nature 2003, 421:259-264.
    Additional reading (required!): Dieckmann and Doebeli "On the origin of species by sympatric speciation" Nature 1999, 400:354 - 357.
  • Feb.5 (Scott Sylvester)
    Siller "Sexual selection and the maintenance of sex" Nature 2001, 411:689-692
    Agrawal "Sexual selection and the maintenance of sexual reproduction" Nature 2001, 411:692-695.
  • Feb. 12 (Lou Gross)
    Cohen et al. "Ecological community description using the food web, species abundance, and body size" PNAS 2003: Jan.23 (Online).
  • Feb. 19 (Tom Hallam)
    Pybus et al. "The epidemic behavior of the hepatitis C virus" Science 2001 292: 2323-2325 (pdf)
  • Feb. 26 (Frans Jacobs)
    Bergstrom and Lachmann "The Red King effect: When the slowest runner wins the coevolutionary race" PNAS 2003, 100: 593-598.
  • March 5 (Holly Gaff)
    Smith et al. "Predicting the spatial dynamics of rabies epidemics on heterogeneous landscapes" PNAS 2002 99: 3668-3672.
  • March 12 (Eric Carr)
    Coulson et al. "Age, Sex, Density, Winter Weather, and Population Crashes in Soay Sheep" Science 2001 292:1528 (pdf)
  • March. 19 - no class (Spring Break)
  • March. 26 (Tom Purucker)
    Wolfenbarger and Phifer 2000 Science : 2088-2093 (pdf)
    Yves et al. 2003 "Long-term regional suppression of pink bollworm by Bacillus thuringiensis cotton" PNAS 100: 1519-1523 (pdf)
  • Apr. 2 (Paula Frederico)
    Humphries et al. 2002 "Climate-mediated energetic constraints on the distribution of hibernating mammals" Nature 418: 213-216 (pdf)
  • Apr. 9
  • Apr. 16 (Aaron King)
    Bjørnstad et al. 2002. Waves of Larch Budmoth Outbreaks in the European Alps. Science 298:1020-1023. (pdf) Make sure to check out the Supporting Online Material (with cool movies). See also the "Perspectives" article.
  • Apr. 23 (Hem Raj Joshi)
    Natalia L. Komarova,, Eleanor Barnes§, Paul Klenerman§, and Dominik Wodarz. Here is the URL to the paper.
    If you want to read more please read "Optimal control of an HIV immunology model" by Hem Raj Joshi. Here is the URL to the paper.

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