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Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY
May 6-7, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1129

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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Special Session on Mathematical Phylogenetics

• Sunday May 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Phylogenetics, I
  HN506, Hunter North
  Organizers:
  Megan Owen, City University of New York megan.owen@lehman.cuny.edu
  Katherine St. John, Lehman College, City University of New York, and American Museum of Natural History
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Finding geodesics in Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann treespace via curve shortening.
    Sean Cleary*, The City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center
    Joel Hass, University of California, Davis
    Katherine St. John, City University of New York
    (1129-57-250)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Strange Logic of Galton-Watson Trees.
    Moumanti Podder*, PhD student (in Mathematics), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
    (1129-60-202)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mining Abundant Public Genome Data to Recover Statistical Trends using Geometry.
    Ruth E. Davidson*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Joseph Rusinko, Hobart William and Smith Colleges
    Zoe Vernon, Washington University in St. Louis
    Jing Xi, University of Wisconsin-Stout
    (1129-92-223)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Efficient Quartet Systems.
    R Davidson, University of Illinois
    M Lawhorn, Winthrop University
    J Rusinko*, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    N Weber, Winthrop University
    (1129-92-401)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On determining if tree-based networks contain fixed trees.
    Ella Pavlechko*, Sarah Lawrence College
    (1129-00-408)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Improvements in Tree and Network Alignment Algorithms.
    Ward C Wheeler*, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History
    (1129-92-470)
• Sunday May 7, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Phylogenetics, II
  HN506, Hunter North
  Organizers:
  Megan Owen, City University of New York megan.owen@lehman.cuny.edu
  Katherine St. John, Lehman College, City University of New York, and American Museum of Natural History
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Causality, Kernels and Clocks in Cancer: A Cook's Tour.
    B Mishra*, Courant Institute, NYU
    (1129-68-287)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Confidence sets for phylogenetic trees.
    Amy Willis*, Cornell University
    (1129-62-234)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The reticulating phylogenetic history of the kingsnakes.
    Frank T Burbrink*, The American Museum of Natural History
    Marcelo Gehara, The American Museum of Natural History
    (1129-42-268)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the complexity of the Rooted-Triples Closure Problem.
    Francesca M Falzon*, Rutgers University
    (1129-92-405)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    L-infinity optimization to linear spaces and phylogenetic trees.
    Colby Long*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Daniel Irving Bernstein, North Carolina State University
    (1129-92-100)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Genomic data analysis in tree spaces.
    Sakellarios Zairis*, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University
    Hossein Khiabanian, Rutgers Cancer Institute, Rutgers University
    Andrew J Blumberg, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
    Raul Rabadan, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University
    (1129-92-503)

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