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Problems arising from Phylogenetic Trees

Student-Run Discrete Math Seminar

Speaker: Federico Castillo, UC Davis
Location: 3106 MSB
Start time: Wed, May 15 2013, 4:10PM

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.