Probability Seminar: Sebastien Roch, UCLA
- Date: 01/17/2012
Lecturer(s):
Sebastien Roch, UCLA
Location:
University of British Columbia
Topic:
Relating Combinatorial and Variational Distances Between Trees
Description:
Abstract:
I will describe recent results on a connection between the so-called reconstruction problem on Markov random fields on trees
and two important problems in computational evolutionary biology:
the inference of ancestral states and the estimation of phylogenies
using maximum likelihood. This is joint work with Allan Sly. No
biology background will be assumed.
Schedule:
NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME.
2:30-3:30pm in WMAX 110 Tuesday January 17.
Organizers:
David Brydges
Sponsor:
