Exploratory Conference on the Mathematics of Biodiversity

July 2 to 6, 2012

Program

Monday, July 2 

09:00 – 09:30	Registration and welcome
09:30 – 10:30	Lou Jost, Independent researcher Why biologists should care about the mathematics of biodiversity Jost_Lou_Why.pdf   Download the presentation here
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00	Special session: Who are we? What have we been doing?
12:15 – 13:15	Anne Chao, National Tsing Hua University Phylogenetic beta diversity, similarity, and differentiation measures based on Hill numbers Chao_Abstract.pdf
13:15 – 15:00	Lunch break
15:00 – 16:00	Carlo Ricotta, University of Rome “La Sapienza” On the equivalent number of partially distinct species: Some theory and a practical example Carlo_Ricotta.pdf
16:00 – 16:45	Contributed talk: Andrés Baselga, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Partitioning beta diversity into turnover and nestedness components Baselga-Andres_CT.pdf
17:00 – 17:45	Contributed talk: Yoni Gavish, Ben-Gurion University of Negev Determinants of true alpha, beta, and gamma diversities of spiders in a fragmented landscape - a combinatorial network approach Gavish_Yoni_abstract.pdf

09:30 – 10:30	Hans Metz, Universiteit Leiden Some geometrical principles underlying longer term evolution  Hans Metz.pdf
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00	Alison Mather, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute The diversity of antimicrobial resistance – a different perspective on comparing microbial populations Mather_Alison.pdf
12:15 – 13:15	Christina Cobbold, University of Glasgow Measuring biodiversity: the importance of species similarity  Christina Cobbold.pdf
13:15 – 15:00	Lunch break
15:00 – 16:00	Tom Leinster, University of Glasgow Maximazing diversity: you can please all of the people all of the time  Tom Leinster.pdf
16:00 – 16:45	Special session: Who are we? What have we been doing?
17:00 – 17:45	Contributed talk: Núria Teixidó, Universitat de Barcelona Biodiversity patterns in marine rocky communities of the Mediterranean Sea; some insights from geographic and temporal network approach. Teixido_Nuria_CT.pdf

09:30 – 10:30	William Bruce Sherwin, University of New South-Wales Entropy and Information Approaches to Genetic Diversity and its Expression: Genomic Geography Sherwin_William.pdf   Download the presentation here
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00	John Woolliams, University of Edinburgh Diversity in livestock: from entropy to squares  Woolliams_John_abstract.pdf
12:15 – 13:15	Neil Brummitt, Natural History Museum, London The Sampled Red List Index for Plants: a baseline biodiversity assessment Neil Brummitt.pdf
13:15 – 15:00	Lunch break
15:00 – 16:00	Group activity
16:00 – 16:45
17:00 – 17:30

09:30 – 10:30	John Baez, University of California, Riverside Diversity, information geometry and learning John Baez.pdf
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00	Hans-Rolf Gregorius, Georg-August Universität Göttingen Classifying measures of biological variation  Gregorious_Hans_Rolf.pdf
12:15 – 13:15	Elizabeth Gillet, Universität Göttingen Measuring effects of gene associations on differentiation Gillet_Elizabeth.pdf
13:15 – 15:00	Lunch break
15:00 – 16:00	Louise Matthews, University of Glasgow Measuring, maintaining and maximising mhc diversity Louise Matthews.pdf
16:00 – 17:00	Mike Stear, University of Glasgow The Major Histocompatibility Complex: Quantifying, explaining and exploiting the most diverse region of the mammalian genome Stear_Mike.aspx
17:00 – 17:45	Simon Willerton, University of Sheffield Magnitude and other measures of metric spaces  Simon Willerton.pdf

09:30 – 10:30	Sandrine Pavoine, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris Partitioning and visualizing biodiversity: when species dissimilarity matters Pavoine_Sandrine.pdf
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00	Richard Reeve, University of Glasgow Quantifying antigenic diversity - the nonconcept of serotype Reeve_Richard.pdf
12:15 – 13:15	Ben Allen, Harvard University Phylogenetic Entropy: Incorporating community phylogeny into the Shannon index Ben Allen.pdf
13:15 – 15:00	Lunch break
15:00 – 16:00	Lou Jost, Independent researcher Challenges and open questions in diversity theory Jost_Lou_Challenges.pdf
16:00 - 17:45	Discussion