Seminar Room1 INI 2007-11-16 11:30: Hedgehog black holes and the deconfinement transition (Headrick, M (Stanford)) 2007-12-04 11:30: Bosonic dualities in the Bethe ansatz (Vieira, P (ENS, Paris)) 2007-12-04 14:00: New methods for estimating language evolution (Warnow, T (Texas)) 2007-12-05 11:30: Supergroups for disordered Dirac fermions: the quantum Hall transition (LeClair, A (Cornell)) 2007-12-06 13:00: Phylogenetic models and the origins of chloroplasts (Lockhart, P (Massey)) 2007-12-06 14:00: Algorithm design for large-scale phylogenetic analysis (Warnow, T (Texas)) 2007-12-06 15:30: Phylogenetic models and algebra (Rhodes, JA (Alaska)) 2007-12-06 16:30: Phylogenetic combinatorics: analysing branching patterns in evolutionary trees (Dress, A (Chinese Academy of Sciences)) 2007-12-10 10:00: Exact results for twist operators in planar N=4 SYM (Staudacher, M (AEI Potsdam)) 2007-12-10 11:30: Spectral curve for the Heisenberg ferromagnet and AdS/CFT (Beisert, N (AEI Potsdam)) 2007-12-10 14:00: Factorised world-sheet scattering in near-flat AdS$_5$xS$^5$ (Klose, T (Princeton)) 2007-12-10 16:10: Quasilocality of splitting/joining strings from coherent states (Kristjansen, C (Niels Bohr Institute)) 2007-12-11 09:30: Anomalous dimensions at strong coupling: NNLO and beyond (Roiban, R (Penn State)) 2007-12-11 10:15: Strong coupling limit of Bethe ansatz equations (Serban, D (SPhT Saclay)) 2007-12-11 11:30: Gauged linear sigma model for the AdS$_5$xS$^5$ superstring (Berkovits, N (IFT-UNESP, Sao Paulo)) 2007-12-11 14:00: The Leigh-Strassler deformation and the quest of integrability (Mansson, T (MPI, Golm)) 2007-12-11 14:20: Dilatation operator and Cayley graphs (Cicuta, G (Parma)) 2007-12-11 15:30: Collapsing the Bethe ansatz (Fendley, P (Oxford/Virginia)) 2007-12-11 16:50: On the construction of monopoles (Braden, HW (Edinburgh)) 2007-12-12 09:30: The quantum AdS$_5$xS$^5$ superstring in the light cone gauge (Plefka, J (Humboldt)) 2007-12-12 10:15: Classical and quantum aspects of integrable shocks (Corrigan, E (York)) 2007-12-12 11:30: From characters to quantum (super) spin chains via fusion (Kazakov, V (Ecole Normale Superieure)) 2007-12-12 14:00: Hidden conformal symmetry of gluon amplitudes and Wilson loops (Drummond, J (LAPTH Annecy)) 2007-12-12 14:40: MHV amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills and Wilson loops (Heslop, P (QMUL)) 2007-12-13 09:30: Encoding the Bethe ansatz in ordinary differential equations (Dorey, P (Durham)) 2007-12-13 10:15: Anomalous dimensions of local operators and Pomeron in N=4 SUSY (Lipatov, L (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)) 2007-12-13 11:30: Wrapping interactions at strong coupling (Janik, R (Jagellonian)) 2007-12-13 14:00: From quasiclassics to nested Bethe ansatze (Vieira, P (Ecole Normale Superieure)) 2007-12-13 14:40: The S-matrix of the Faddeev-Reshetikhin model, diagonalisability and PT symmetry (Rivelles, V (Sao Paulo)) 2007-12-13 15:30: Cusp anomalous dimension in N=4 SYM at strong coupling (Basso, B (LPT Orsay)) 2007-12-13 16:10: Algebraic aspects of the AdS/CFT S matrix (Spill, F (Imperial)) 2007-12-13 16:30: Semi-classical finite-gap strings (Vicedo, B (Cambridge)) 2007-12-14 09:30: Baxter equations for super Yang-Mills theories (Belitsky, A (Arizona State)) 2007-12-14 10:15: Perturbative study of the transfer matrix on the string worldsheet in AdS$_5$xS$^5$ (Mikhailov, A (Caltech)) 2007-12-14 14:00: From planar quantum mechanics to planar quantum field theory (Wosiek, J (Jagellonian)) 2007-12-14 14:20: Investigation of dressing phase at strong coupling (Volin, D (SPhT, Saclay)) 2007-12-14 15:30: On bound states of the light-cone AdS5 x S5 superstring (Frolov, S (Trinity College Dublin)) 2007-12-14 16:15: Planar gluon amplitudes/Wilson loop duality in N=4 SYM (Korchemsky, G (LPT, Paris XI)) 2007-12-17 10:00: The tree of life: algorithmic and software challenges (Warnow, T (Texas at Austin)) 2007-12-17 11:30: Seeing the wood for trees: analysing multiple alternative phylogenies (Nye, T (Newcastle )) 2007-12-17 14:00: Incorporating uncertainty in distance-matrix phylogenetic reconstruction (Gilks, W (Leeds)) 2007-12-17 14:40: On the hardness of inferring Phylogenies from triplet-dissimilarities (Moran, S (Technion)) 2007-12-17 15:30: A signal-to-noise analysis of phylogeny estimation by neighbour-joining (Lacey, M (Tulane)) 2007-12-17 15:50: How many characters are needed to recontruct the true tree? (Fischer, M (Canterbury)) 2007-12-17 16:10: The deep phylogeny problem and its consequences (Naylor, G (Florida State)) 2007-12-17 16:30: On the nature of heterotachy (Lockhart, P (Massey)) 2007-12-18 09:00: Recent progress in phylogenetic combinatorics (Dress, A (Chinese Academy of Sciences)) 2007-12-18 10:00: An exact algorithm for computing the geodesic distance between phylogenetic trees (Kupczok, A (CIBIV)) 2007-12-18 10:20: Practical distance computation in the space of phylogenetic trees (Owen, M (Cornell)) 2007-12-18 10:40: Optimal realisations (Koolen, J (Pohang)) 2007-12-18 11:30: The identifyability of matrix parameters for covarion-like models (Rhodes, J (Alaska Fairbanks)) 2007-12-18 11:50: Optimising phylogenetic diversity across two trees (Bordewich, M (Durham)) 2007-12-18 14:00: On the optimality of the neighbour-joining algorithm (Yoshida, R (Kentucky)) 2007-12-18 14:20: Encoding phylogenetic trees with weighted quartets (Moulton, V (East Anglia)) 2007-12-18 14:40: Identifying Phylogenies: extending the notion of unique (Semple, C (Canterbury)) 2007-12-18 15:30: On (k.l)-leaf powers (Wagner, P (Rostock)) 2007-12-18 15:50: Phylogenetics of medieval manuscripts (Howe, C (Cambridge)) 2007-12-19 09:00: Some broad questions about the tree of life (Aldous, D (California)) 2007-12-19 10:00: Ranked tree shapes, shuffles, and a new test for neutrality (Gernhard, T (Munchen)) 2007-12-19 10:20: Distribution of phylogenetic diversity under random extinction (Faller, B (Canterbury)) 2007-12-19 11:10: 10 Men and 1 woman? (von Haeseler, A (MFPL, Vienna)) 2007-12-20 09:00: Markov models of protein evolution: Lets get real! (Roger, A (Dalhousie )) 2007-12-20 10:00: A phylogenetic definition of structure and further animations on the sequence space (Gesell, T (MFPL, Vienna )) 2007-12-20 10:20: Selecting genomes for reconstruction of ancestral genomes (Zhang, L (Singapore)) 2007-12-20 10:40: MIP models for phylenetic reconstruction under minimum evolution (Catanzaro, D (Libre de Bruxelles)) 2007-12-20 11:30: Challenges in modeling context-dependent evolution (Baele, G (Gent)) 2007-12-20 11:50: A simple model for a complex world (Whelan, S (Manchester)) 2007-12-20 14:00: Evolution of Chloroplasts (Nisbet, E (Cambridge)) 2007-12-20 14:40: Hybridisation in non-binary trees (Linz, S (Canterbury)) 2007-12-20 15:30: Phylogenetic networks (Huson, D (Tubingen)) 2007-12-20 15:50: Reconstruction of certain phylogenetic networks from the genomes at leaves (Willson, S (Iowa State)) 2007-12-21 09:00: Lineage sorting and multi-species coalescent models (Rosenberg, N (Michigan)) 2007-12-21 10:00: Coalescent consequences for consensus cladograms (Degnan, J (Michigan)) 2007-12-21 10:20: The influence of effective population size on a genome-wide positive selection scan (Kosiol, C (Cornell)) 2007-12-21 10:40: A genealogical approach to studying asexuality (Song, Y (California)) 2007-12-21 11:30: Minimum common supergraphs and haplotype networks (Labarre, A (Libre de Bruxelles)) 2007-12-21 11:50: Incomplete lineage sorting: consistent phylogeny estimation from multiple loci (Mossel, E (California)) 2008-01-07 14:00: Methods for visualizing high dimensional data (Wegman, E (George Mason)) 2008-01-08 09:00: Practical and information-theoretic limitations in high-dimensional inference (Wainwright, M (Berkeley)) 2008-01-08 10:00: Some thoughts on nonparametric classification: nearest neighbours, bagging and max likelihood estimation of shape-constrained densities (Samworth, R (Cambridge)) 2008-01-08 11:30: Model-based sufficient dimension reduction for regression (Cook, RD (Minnesota)) 2008-01-08 14:00: Kernel-based contrast functions for sufficient dimension reduction (Jordan, M (Berkeley)) 2008-01-08 15:30: Challenge of dimensionality in model selection and classification (Fan, J (Princeton)) 2008-01-08 16:30: Regularised estimation of high dimensional covariance matrices (Bickel, P (Berkeley)) 2008-01-09 09:00: The ultrametric topology perspective on analysis of massive, very high dimensional data stores (Murtagh, F (Royal Holloway)) 2008-01-09 10:00: P-values for computer-intensive classifiers (Duembgen, L (Bern)) 2008-01-09 11:30: Nonparametric cluster analysis: estimating the cluster tree of a density (Stuetzle, W (Washington)) 2008-01-09 14:00: Sparsity modelling in large-scale dynamic models for portfolio analysis (West, M (Duke)) 2008-01-09 15:30: Computationally tractable statistical estimation when there are more variables than observations (Candes, E (Caltech)) 2008-01-09 16:30: Learning in high dimensions, noise, sparsity and treelets (Nadler, B (Weizmann)) 2008-01-10 09:00: Estimating a response parameter in missing data models with high-dimensional covariates (van der Vaart, AW (Amsterdam)) 2008-01-10 10:00: Persistence: alternative proofs of some results of Greenshtein and Ritov (Wellner, J (Seattle)) 2008-01-10 11:30: Looking at models in high-dimensional data spaces (Cook, D (Iowa State)) 2008-01-10 14:00: The surprising structure of Gaussian point clouds and its implications for signal processing (Tanner, J (Edinburgh)) 2008-01-10 15:30: Finding low-dimensional structure in high-dimensional data (Lee, A (Carnegie-Mellon)) 2008-01-10 16:30: A geometric perspective on learning theory and algorithms (Niyogi, P (Chicago)) 2008-01-11 11:30: Using side information for prediction (Yu, B Y (Berkeley)) 2008-01-11 14:00: A physicist's approach to high-dimensional inference (Hoyle, D (Manchester)) 2008-01-11 15:30: Models, model lists, model spaces and predictive optimality (Clarke, B (British Columbia)) 2008-01-14 10:00: Graphs and matroids I (Jackson, B (QMUL)) 2008-01-14 11:30: Combinatorial enumeration I (Wagner, D (Waterloo)) 2008-01-14 14:30: Statistical mechanics I (Sokal, A (New York)) 2008-01-14 16:00: Phase transitions and cluster expansions I (Kotecky, R (Warwick)) 2008-01-15 10:00: Graphs and matroids II (Jackson, B (QMUL)) 2008-01-15 11:30: Combinatorial enumeration II (Wagner, D (Waterloo)) 2008-01-15 14:30: Statistical mechanics II (Sokal, A (New York)) 2008-01-15 16:00: Phase transitions and cluster expansions II (Kotecky, R (Warwick)) 2008-01-16 11:30: Algorithms and complexity I (Jerrum, M (QMUL)) 2008-01-16 14:30: Probablistic methods I (Janson, S (Uppsala)) 2008-01-16 16:00: Algorithms and complexity II (Jerrum, M (QMUL)) 2008-01-17 10:00: Graphs and matroids III (Whittle, G (Victoria)) 2008-01-17 16:00: Phase transitions and cluster expansions III (Kotecky, R (Warwick)) 2008-01-18 10:00: Graphs and matroids IV (Whittle, G (Victoria)) 2008-01-18 14:30: Probablistic methods II (Janson, S (Uppsala))