The Math/Stats Colloquium brings the fall semester to an exciting conclusion with Ruriko Yoshida (Naval Postgraduate School) on “Evolution and Triangles in Tree Spaces”. A phylogenetic tree, also known as an evolutionary tree, is a tree representation of evolutionary history among different species. Since Charles Darwin illustrated the notion of an evolutionary tree, such trees have provided a great statistical model to learn the evolutionary history of biological data. Motivated by statistical analysis on a set of phylogenetic trees, we are interested in the space of all possible phylogenetic trees with a given number of species. In this talk we will discuss some properties of triangles in this space. (Joint with B. Lin, B. Sturmfels, and X. Tang)
Background: One semester linear algebra. Interest in geometry, statistics, or computational biology is helpful but not necessary.
- Date: Fri Dec 09
- Time: 2:30-3:20pm
- Room: MH320
- Snacks: 2:00pm in MH331B
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Hope to see you there!