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Central Fall Sectional Meeting
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
October 2-4, 2015 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1112

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Mathematics of Evolution

• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Evolution, I
  Room 403, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Ruth Davidson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign redavid2@illinois.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Species Tree Estimation in the presence of Incomplete Lineage Sorting.
    Tandy Warnow*, University of Illinois
    Siavash Mirarab, University of California at San Diego
    Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, University of Texas at Austin
    Bastien Boussau, Universite de Lyon
    (1112-60-207)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gene trees in phylogenetic networks.
    Luay Nakhleh*, Rice University
    (1112-60-105)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tree-based phylogenetic networks.
    Andrew R Francis*, Western Sydney University
    (1112-05-294)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Displayed Trees Do Not Determine Distinguishability Under the Network Multispecies Coalescent.
    James H Degnan*, University of New Mexico
    Sha Zhu, University of Oxford
    (1112-92-192)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Evolution, II
  Room 403, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Ruth Davidson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign redavid2@illinois.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Developing a Statistically Powerful Measure for Phylogenetic Tree Inference using Phylogenetic and Markov Invariants.
    Barbara Holland, University of Tasmania
    Peter D. Jarvis, University of Tasmania
    Jeremy G. Sumner, University of Tasmania
    Amelia Taylor*, Colorado College and OSU-Cascades
    (1112-92-76)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nearest Point Phylogenetic Reconstruction using Numerical Algebraic Geometry.
    Emily Castner, Mount Holyoke College
    Brent Davis, Colorado State University
    Joe Rusinko*, Geneva
    (1112-92-360)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tying Up Loose Strands: Defining Equations of the Strand Symmetric Model.
    Colby Long*, North Carolina State University
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1112-92-155)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Complete intersections for equivariant models.
    Marta Casanellas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Jesús Fernández-Sánchez*, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Mateusz Michałek, Polish Academy of Sciences
    (1112-14-338)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Statistically consistent k-mer methods for phylogenetic tree reconstruction.
    Elizabeth Allman, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
    John Rhodes, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
    Seth Sullivant*, North Carolina State University
    (1112-92-23)
• Sunday October 4, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Evolution, III
  Room 403, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Ruth Davidson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign redavid2@illinois.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Number of gene duplication episodes and Gallai's min-max theorem on intervals.
    Eva Czabarka, University of South Carolina
    Laszlo A. Szekely*, University of South Carolina
    Todd J. Vision, University of North Carolina
    (1112-05-88)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Distributions of topological tree metrics between a species tree and a gene tree.
    Jing Xi, North Carolina State University
    Jin Xie*, University of Kentucky
    Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
    (1112-62-469)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Recent Advances in Bayesian Concordance Analysis.
    Bret Larget*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1112-92-453)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday October 4, 2015, 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Evolution, IV
  Room 403, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Ruth Davidson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign redavid2@illinois.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Facets of Balanced Minimal Evolution polytopes.
    Stefan Forcey*, University of Akron
    Logan Keefe, University of Akron
    William Sands, University of Akron
    (1112-92-315)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Polyhedral subdivisions and a partial CLT for tree space.
    Megan Owen*, City University of New York
    (1112-05-205)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Parameter Identifiability and Inference for Species Phylogenies Under the Coalescent.
    Laura Kubatko*, The Ohio State University
    Julia Chifman, The Ohio State University
    (1112-62-296)

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