Program
Monday, 23rd November 2009
9:00 Opening
9:15 Warren J. Ewens (U. Pennsylvania, USA)
What changes have mathematics and genetics made to the Darwinian theory?
10:10 Reinhard Buerger (U. Vienna, Austria)
Mathematical Models in Evolutionary Genetics.
11:05 Coffee Break
11:35 Hans Metz (U. Leiden, The Netherlands)
The Geometry of Macro-evolution: links between Adaptive Dynamics and Evo-Devo.
12:30 Lunch
14:15 Sylvie Méléard (E. Polytechnique, France)
Polymorphic trait substitution sequence and evolutionary branching.
15:10 Benoit Perthame (U. Paris, France)
Adaptive evolution: a population view.
16:05 Coffee Break
16:35 Mats Gyllenberg (U. Helsinki, Finland)
Optimisation principles in evolution.
17:45 Poster Session with Porto wine
19:30 Social Event
Tuesday, 24th November 2009
9:00 Peter Schuster (U. Vienna, Austria)
The mathematics of Darwin's theory of evolution -- 1859 and 150 years later.
9:55 Peter Taylor (Queens U., Canada)
Homogeneous population structure: putting the “inclusive” into inclusive fitness and then taking it out again (and rescuing Darwin from the mud).
10:50 Coffee Break
11:20 Jorge Pacheco (U. Lisboa and U. Minho, Portugal)
The Evolution of Group Cooperation.
12:15 Franjo Weissing (U. Groningen, The Netherlands)
The dynamics of sexual selection.
13:10 Lunch
15:00 Vincent Jansen (Royal Holloway, U. London, UK)
On group and kin selection.
15:55 Masayasu Mimura (Meiji U., Japan)
Model aided understanding of secrets in biological systems.
16:50 Break
17:30 Round Table (Faculty of Sciences/University of Lisbon - amphitheatre 6.1.36)
Peter Jagers (coordinator), José Francisco Rodrigues, Peter Taylor, Peter Schuster, Hans Metz and Warren Ewens.
Note that the round table is not in the same place as the conference:
