Monday, September 21, 2015 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Immune Selection of Malaria Quasi-Species: A Modeling Perspective
Speaker: David Gurarie (Professor, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: The talk will review some conventional approaches to competition and fitness selection for interacting populations, and focus specifically on host-parasite systems. Parasite survival, development...
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Friday, September 4, 2015 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Interval Timing and Decision Making with an Opponent Poisson Diffusion Model
Speaker: Patrick Simen (Assistant Professor, Oberlin College)
Abstract: Diffusion models explain patterns of choice probabilities and response times in perceptual decision tasks. In these models, a random quantity representing "evidence" builds up over time...