Purpose
This one-day workshop aims to discuss recent developments in studies of evolutionary dynamics, especially their theoretical aspects. Topics include: adaptive dynamics, evolutionary branching, evolutionary game dynamics, inclusive fitness theory, and speciation.
Time & Date
13:00-18:00, Nov. 12, 2012
(Take the bus from Zushi station at 12:02, and you'll be in time for the opening remark. See the bus-timetable.)
Venue
Seminar room 306 (School of Advanced Sciences building), The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama
Campus Map (enter the "Main building" and go through the corridors to the "School of Advanced Sciences building".)
Schedule
Opening remark
13:00 - 13:10 Hisashi OHTSUKI (SOKENDAI)
Session 1: Adaptive Dynamics
13:10 - 13:40 Akira SASAKI (SOKENDAI)
Oligomorphic dynamics for analyzing the quantitative genetics of adaptive speciation
14:10 - 14:40 Hiroshi ITO (SOKENDAI)
Conditions for evolutionary branching lines and areas
--- coffee break ---
Session 2: Application of Adaptive Dynamics
15:00 - 15:30 Koichi ITO (Kyoto)
Functional Forms of Interaction Change the Evolution of Cooperation Level
15:30 - 16:00 Tetsuya AKITA (SOKENDAI)
Coupling with sex-ratio evolution and chaotic resource dynamics
--- coffee break ---
Session 3: Finite population
16:20 - 16:50 Koh HASHIMOTO (Tokyo)
Evolution towards ESS in a finite population
16:50 - 17:20 Laurent LEHMANN (Lausanne)
The stationary distribution of a continuously varying strategy in a class-structured population under mutation-selection-drift balance
17:20 - 17:50 Joe Yuichiro WAKANO (Meiji)
Evolutionary branching in a finite population: Deterministic branching versus stochastic branching