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Tuesday, March 11, 2003
8:00 - The van leaves the Holiday Inn to bring participants to DIMACS
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Greeting:
Fred S. Roberts, DIMACS Director
Melvin F. Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director
Session Chair: Melvin F. Janowitz, DIMACS
9:10 - 10:05 The Tree of Life: Challenges for Discrete Mathematics
and Theoretical Computer Science
Fred S. Roberts, DIMACS, Rutgers University
10:10 - 11:05 From Parsimony to Likelihood, A One Parameter
Family of Phylogenetic Estimators for Complex Datasets
Junhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania
11:05 - 11:35 Break
11:35 - 12:30 Lengths of Branches in the Coalescence Tree and
Frequencies of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
Under Evolution with Time-Varying Population Size
Andrzej Polanski, Rice University
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch and Discussions
Session Chair: Mark Wilkinson, Natural History Museum, London
2:30 - 3:25 A Comparative Study of Flip-Supertrees
Oliver Eulenstein, Iowa State University
3:25 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50 Genome Rearrangement Phylogeny
Li-San Wang, University of Texas
5:00 - 5:30 Informal Discussion
6:00 - The van leaves DIMACS to take participants to the Holiday Inn
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
8:15 - The van leaves the Holiday Inn to bring participants to DIMACS
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
Session Chair: Melvin F. Janowitz, DIMACS
9:00 - 9:55 What Do Biologists Want from Supertrees?
Mark Wilkinson, Natural History Museum, London
10:00 - 10:55 What Do Mathematicians Think That Biologists Want
From Supertrees? An Axiomatic Perspective
Bill Day, Port Maitland, Nova Scotia
10:55 - 11:25 Break
11:25 - 12:20 Phylogenetic Supertrees: Seeing the Data For the Trees
Olaf Bininda-Emonds, Technical University of Munich
12:25 - 2:25 Lunch
Session Chair: Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Universite de Montreal
2:25 - 3:20 Supertrees: Algorithms and Databases
Rod Page, University of Glasgow
3:20 - 3:50 Break
4:00 - 4:50 Panel Discussion on Supertrees with Day, McMorris,
Bininda-Emonds, Lapointe and Wilkinson
5:00 - The van leaves DIMACS to take participants to the Holiday Inn
6:00 - 8:00 Reception at the Holiday Inn
Thursday, March 13, 2003
8:15 - The van leaves the Holiday Inn to bring participants to DIMACS
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
Session Chair: Bill Day, Port Maitland, Nova Scotia
9:00 - 9:55 Phyloinformatic Methods of Finding Strands in the Forest
William Piel, University of Buffalo
10:00 - 10:55 Approaching Arthropod Phylogeny: The comparative analysis
of genomic, anatomical, and paleontological information
Ward Wheeler, American Museum of Natural History
10:55 - 11:25 Break
11:25 - 12:20 Average Trees, Supertrees and Splitstrees
Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Universite de Montreal
12:25 - 2:25 Lunch
Session Chair: Fred McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology
2:25 - 3:20 Large-Scale Phylogenetic Inference
Mark Pagel, University of Reading
3:20 - 3:50 Break
3:55 - 4:45 A Search for the Bacterial Phylogeny - A Supertree Aproach
Christopher Creevey, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
4:45 - 5:30 Discussion
6:00 - The van leaves DIMACS to take participants to the Holiday Inn
Friday, March 14, 2003
8:15 - The van leaves the Holiday Inn to bring participants to DIMACS
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
Session Chair: Olaf Bininda-Emonds, Technical University of Munich
9:00 - 9:55 Strategies for Assembling the Tree of Life with W-curves
of Long Genomic Sequences
D.J. Cork, S. Lembark
10:00 - 10:55 Balanced Minimum Evolution: A Fast Algorithm for Building
Large Trees
Richard Desper, National Institutes of Health
10:55 - 11:25 Break
11:25 - 12:20 Dimension Reduction via Dimensional Analysis
and Multiplicative Neural Networks, and Unified
Datamining and Datawarehousing
H.M. Hubey, Montclair State University
12:25 - 2:25 Lunch
2:45 - The van leaves DIMACS to take participants to the Holiday Inn
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