Friday, October 9, 2020
10:00 AM -
3:30 PM EDT
Evolution is a combination of randomness and selection, in systems with many interacting degree of freedom, and hence a challenging problem in statistical physics. In this symposium we will look at the dynamics of evolution in the real world, including data on covid-19, in simplified laboratory experiments, and in abstract theoretical models, grounded in statistical mechanics.
Tracking and predicting viral evolution, from flu to covid-19
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Richard Neher, University of Basel
Evolution at high resolution
Ivana Cvijović, Stanford University
Space – evolution's ultimate frontier
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Oskar Hallatschek, University of California at Berkeley
This event is sponsored in part by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of The Graduate Center, CUNY and Princeton University.