You are here: TUCS > RESEARCH > Distinguished Lectures > Christos Papadimitriou
TUCS Distinguished Lecture on 10.6.: Christos Papadimitriou
Monday, June 10, 2013 at 13.15
ICT Building, Auditorium Lambda
Coffee served from 12:45
Christos Papadimitriou, University of California at Berkeley: "Computational Insights and the Theory of Evolution"
Host: Ion Petre, Åbo Akademi University
Abstract: Covertly computational insights have influenced the Theory of Evolution from the very start. I shall discuss recent work on some central problems in Evolution that was inspired and informed by computational ideas. Considerations about the performance of genetic algorithms led to a novel theory of the role of sex in Evolution based on the concept of mixability, while the population genetic equations describing the evolution of a species can be reinterpreted, under the neutral theory, as a repeated game between genes played through the multiplicative updates algorithm.
The TUCS Distinguished Lecture Series is a forum for public lectures by outstanding national and international researchers in all aspects of computing, coming both from academia and industry. All lectures are free and open to the public.
Welcome!