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Dr. Michael Kopp - Teaching

Modeling in Evolutionary Biology (summer semester 2010)

• Math exercises for revision, with solutions (March 3)

• What is a model, and what is it good for? (March 8)

• An example: Evolution under sexual conflict (March 10)

• Experiments in a virtual world: simulations (March 15)
  Additional reading by S. Peck on the philosophy of simulations.

• How to build a model, and how to deal with time (March 17)

• One-dimensional dynamical systems, and selection at a haploid locus (March 22)

• Selection at a single diploid locus (March 24)

• Recombination and selection at two diploid loci (April 12)

• Vectors and matrices (April 14)

• Eigenvalues and eigenvectors (April 19)

• Stability analysis (April 26)

• Sexual selection and dynamical systems (April 28)

• Eigenvectors and structured popoulation models (May 5)

• The Price equation (May 10)

• Quantitative genetics for single traits (May 12)

• Quantitative genetics for multiple traits (May 17)

• Optimality models (May 19)

• Evolutionary game theory (May 26)

• Adaptive dynamics (May 31)

• Exercises for adaptive dynamics (June 9)

• Exercises for stability analysis (June 14)

• Exercises for population and quantitative genetics (June 21)