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- Subject: Symposium on Competing Technologies for Phylogenetics (SCOPH)
- From: recomb2001@cartan.gmd.de
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:01:21 +0100 (MET)
Symposium on Competing Technologies for Phylogenetics (SCOPH) April 19-21 Universite de Montreal Montreal, Quebec SCOPH is a workshop providing an introduction to the fundamental problems and techniques in phylogenetics. There will be presentations by some of the leading experts in the field. Each speaker will cover one or two topics, and there will be ample time for discussion and debate. Preliminary program: April 19 Olivier Gascuel Distance based methods Tandy Warnow Fast converging methods David Bryant Quartet and combinatorial methods Andreas Dress Networks and split decomposition April 20 Kevin Nixon Parsimony David Sankoff Gene order parsimony David Swofford Maximum Likelihood John Huelsenbeck Bayesian methods April 21 Mike Steel General stochastic models; Hadamard conjugation Tom Hagedorn Phylogenetic invariants Joe Felsenstein Validation methods Registration is $200CAD, or $50 for students (with ID). For information and online pre-registration, refer to the SCOPH web page: > http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/act/theme/frontpage.html or contact David Bryant bryant@lirmm.fr The workshop directly preceeds the Fifth Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2001) http://recomb2001.gmd.de
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