February 10-14 > Scope
February 10-14, 2020. Conference on Mathematical models in evolutionary biology
Scope
In the recent years, several modeling approaches have been proposed to study questions from quantitative evolutionary biology. These approaches have been developed by mathematicians specialized in the analysis of PDEs, mathematicians specialized in probabilities and also evolutionary biologists. The purpose of this week is to bring together researchers from these three di fferent backgrounds, in order to take stock of the existing approaches, and to work on new perspectives at the intersection between these various frameworks.
Several important issues from evolutionary biology will be addressed during this week:
- evolutionary rescue: the process that occurs when a population, initially declining because of exposure to an environment outside of its ecological niche, avoids extinction via genetic adaptation;
- the dynamics of adaptation in time-varying environments;
- the role of space in the dynamics of adaptation;
- the role of age structure;
- the role of evolution in epidemiology and invasion biology.
Mathematical approaches will include nonlocal and nonlinear parabolic PDEs, integro-di erential equations, free-boundary equations, transport equations satisfied by generating functions of some stochastic processes, discrete stochastic processes including birth-death processes and branching processes, di ffusion processes, stochastic PDEs and piecewise deterministic Markov processes.
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