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Title: A Biased Talk Through Mathematical Phylogenomics, Part I
Speaker: Sebastian Roch
Speaker Info: University of Wisconsin, Madison
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The reconstruction of the Tree of Life is a classical problem in evolutionary biology that has benefited from numerous branches of mathematics, including probability, information theory, combinatorics, and geometry. Modern DNA sequencing technologies are producing a deluge of new genetic data -- transforming how we view the Tree of Life and how it is reconstructed. I will survey recent progress on some mathematical questions that arise in this context.