INHOMOGENEOUS RANDOM SYSTEMS Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 January 2008 - Schedule Amphi Darboux Institut Henri Poincaré 11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie Paris

        Moderator: Sylvie Méléard (Palaiseau)

Evolutive Biology aims making sense of the hyper-diversity of life at every scale of spatial and temporal organization. The microscopic dynamics are very complex and need mathematical models, intrinsically probabilist and nonlinear. They have to take into account mutation or selection phenomena with possible migration appearing at different complexity levels. The goal of this short meeting is to introduce the main problematics of evolution and to show the diversity and the interest of the probabilistic models emerging from this field.

Preliminary list of Speakers: N. Berestycki (Cambridge), N. Champagnat (Sophia-Antipolis), P. Collet (Palaiseau), V. Limic (Marseille), H. Metz (Leiden), A. Wakolbinger (Frankfurt).

Titles and abstracts Wednesday 23 January: Ancestral Problems in Population Genetics.

The theory of population genetics deals with the change in genetic composition of populations under the influence of evolutionary forces such as genetic drift, mutation, selection, recombination... Randomness is an essential ingredient in the underlying stochastic processes. Dynamics can be looked at either forward or backward in time; backward in time leads to the ancestral lines of the population.

Preliminary list of Speakers: E. Baake (Bielefeld), R. A. Blythe (Edinburgh), R.C. Griffiths, A. Lambert (Paris), M. Moehle (Dusseldorf), M. Serva (L'Aquila), D. Simon (Paris).

Titles and abstracts The conference is free and open to all.

Programme and proceedings of previous sessions: 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007