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Problems arising from Phylogenetic Trees
Student-Run Discrete Mathematics| Speaker: | Federico Castillo, UC Davis |
| Location: | 3106 MSB |
| Start time: | Wed, May 15 2013, 4:10PM |
Description
There is plenty of math motivated by computational biology. I'll focus on the problem of reconstructing phylogenetic trees given some sort of distance between the leaves (the species). We'll talk about some algebraic, geometric and algorithmic aspects of this particular problem.