Hold Date

2017-10-11 16:45～2017-10-11 17:45

Place

IMI Auditorium (W1-D-413), West Zone 1, Ito campus, Kyushu University

Object person

　

Speaker

Momoko HAYAMIZU (Research Organization of Information and Systems)

The IMI Colloquium in October   Date : Wednesday, 11 October 2017           16:45-17:45   Place : IMI Auditorium (W1-D-413) (4F, West Zone 1, Kyushu University)   Speaker : Ms. Momoko HAYAMIZU (Research Organization of Information and Systems)   Title : Introduction to combinatorial phylogenetics   Abstract : The idea of the 'tree of life' is old and dates back at least to Charles Darwin (1837), and the concept of phylogenetic trees appears in areas as diverse as biology, statistics and computer science. However, the mathematical foundation of phylogenetic tree reconstruction was established in 1960/70s when the graph realisability of finite metric spaces was actively studied in combinatorics. In this talk, I will overview how combinatorial phylogenetics evolved since the pioneering work of Peter Buneman (so-called 'four-point condition'), and present some recent biological topics and mathematical results.   IMI Colloquium Report