Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics (2012/11/12 @ SOKENDAI, Hayama)

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

Access to SOKENDAI

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