Mathematics 596a

Quantitative Biology Seminar

Fall 2013

Tuesdays 5PM

Mathematics Room 402

Schedule

 

 

Week

Dates

Topics

Speakers

Title

References

1

27Aug

Organizational Meeting

2

3Sep

No meeting

3

10Sep

Species Distribution Modeling

Margaret Evans Dominic La Roche

Species Distribution Modeling:

An Introduction, Applications, and a Special Focus on Maxent

Maxent software for species habitat modeling

4

17Sep

Ariella Gladstein

Dhruv Vig

Statistical Models for Dynamic Range Expansion

Log Gaussian Cox processes

 

Explaining Species Distribution Patterns through Hierarchical Modeling

5

20Sep

12:00

PAS 220

Avishek Chakraborty

Heterogeneity in Species Prevalence

 

6

1Oct

7

8Oct

8

15Oct

9

22Oct

10

29Oct

11

5Nov

12

12Nov

13

19Nov

14

26Nov

15