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Probabilistic Techniques in Mathematical Phylogenetics: Relating Combinatorial and Variational Distances on Trees*Speaker: Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin-Madison Date: Tuesday, March 5 2013 Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-141 ; refreshments in RSA G5 lounge Host: Constantinos Daskalakis, MIT CSAIL Contact: Holly Jones, 617-253-6098, hjones01@mit.edu Relevant URL: http://theory.csail.mit.edu/toc-seminars/Abstract: I will describe recent results on a deep connection between a well-studied phase transition in Markov random fields on trees and two important problems in evolutionary biology: the inference of ancestral molecular sequences and the estimation of large phylogenies using maximum likelihood. No biology background will be assumed.
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