The talks of this session deal with algebraic, geometric, and topological methods that have been recently applied to different areas of biology: from chemical reaction networks, to phylogenetics and coiling of DNA molecules. The mathematical tools involved in these applications go from algebraic geometry to knot theory passing through computational algebra, algebraic statistics, commutative algebra, or numerical linear algebra, among other topics.
Speakers
Dorothy Buck
Imperial College London
Knotted DNA; Mathematical Models and Biological Consequence
Thursday, 27 April, 16:30-17:15. Room Pere Coromines
Nina Otter
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
The phylogenetic operad
Thursday, 27 April, 17:20-18:05. Room Pere Coromines
Piotr Zwiernik
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
The correlation space of Gaussian latent tree models and model selection without fitting
Thursday, 27 April, 18:10-18:55. Room Pere Coromines
Jesús Fernández-Sánchez
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
The embedding problem for Markov matrices of evolutionary models
Friday, 28 April, 16:30-17:15. Room Pere Coromines
Elisenda Feliu
Københavns Universitet
Algebraic parametrizations in biochemical reaction networks
Friday, 28 April, 17:20-18:05. Room Pere Coromines
Matteo Ruffini
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
Clustering patients with Tensor Decomposition
Friday, 28 April, 18:10-18:55. Room Pere Coromines
Organisers
Marta Casanellas
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
Carsten Wiuf
Københavns Universitet
