Report 40/2005: Mathematical Population Genetics (August 21st -- August 27th, 2005) (Q870682)

Summary: The meeting was devoted to mathematical aspects of population genetics, a branch of theoretical biology that is concerned with the genetic structure of populations under the influence of various evolutionary processes such as genetic drift, mutation, selection, recombination, and migration. The main focus was on probabilistic aspects of the dynamics, with the Moran model and its relatives as a central theme, and the corresponding stochastic processes forward and backward in time as a unifying point of view. Contributions: {\parindent=5mm \begin{itemize}\item[--]Michael Baake (joint with Ellen Baake), Deterministic recombination dynamics in continuous time (p. 2245) \item[--]Nathanaël Berestycki (joint with Rick Durrett), Of mice and men (and random walks) (p. 2248) \item[--]Matthias Birkner (joint with Andrej Depperschmidt), Survival in the face of competition (p. 2251) \item[--]Reinhard Bürger (joint with Kristan Schneider), Intraspecific competition and sympatric speciation (p. 2252) \item[--]Nicolas Champagnat (joint with Régis Ferreière, Sylvie Méléard), A microscopic interpretation for a Markov jump model of evolution in adaptive dynamics (p. 2253) \item[--]Alison Etheridge (joint with Peter Pfaffelhuber, Anton Wakolbinger), Genetic Hitchhiking (p. 2257) \item[--]Steven N. Evans (joint with David Steinsaltz, Ken Wachter), Mutation-selection balance and models of aging (p. 2260) \item[--]Warrren J Ewens, Two variance results in population genetics (p. 2263) \item[--]Shui Feng (joint with Donald A. Dawson), Behaviour of Poisson-Dirichlet distribution for large mutation rate (p. 2266) \item[--]Bob Griffiths (joint with Sabin Lessard), Ewens' sampling formula (p. 2269)\item[--] Richard Hudson, Estimating the time to the most recent common ancestor of a sample of sequences (p. 2272) \item[--]Martin Hutzenthaler (joint with Anton Wakolbinger), Ergodic behaviour of locally regulated branching populations (p. 2273) \item[--]Stephen M. Krone (joint with Ingemar Kaj, Magnus Nordborg, Martin Lascoux, Per Sjödin), Stochastic Demography, Coalescents, and Effective Population Size (p. 2275) \item[--]Dirk Metzler, A Poisson Model Heuristic for Judging the Significance of Gapped Local Alignments (p. 2277) \item[--]Martin Möhle, Coalescent theory -- simultaneous multiple collisions and sampling distributions (p. 2279) \item[--]Peter Pfaffelhuber (joint with Anton Wakolbinger), All about Eve. On the evolution of the time since the last MRCA (p. 2283) \item[--]Jason Schweinsberg (joint with Rick Durrett), A coalescent model for the effect of advantageous mutations on the genealogy of a population (p. 2286) \item[--]Dario Spanò (joint with Robert C. Griffiths), On transition functions with Dirichlet and Poisson-Dirichlet stationary distributions (p. 2289) \item[--]Wilhelm Stannat, On stability of the optimal filter for nonergodic signals (p. 2292) \item[--]Wolfgang Stephan, Genetic hitchhiking and linkage disequilibrium (p. 2295)\item[--] Jan Swart (joint with Siva R. Athreya), Branching-coalescing particle systems (p. 2297) \item[--]John Wakeley (joint with Bjarki Eldon) Gene genealogy when the distribution of offspring number among individuals is highly skewed (p. 2300). \end{itemize}}