Genes, Peoples and Languages

February 11 - 15, 2002

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, February 11, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:20 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:20 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:30
Alan Walker (Pennsylvania State University)

Early hominid life history

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:30
Luca Cavalli-Sforza (Stanford University)

Genes, Peoples and Languages

5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, February 12, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Noah Rosenberg (University of Southern California)

The Relationship between coalescence times and population divergence times

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:30
Daniel Falush (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology)

Traces of human migrations in helicobacter pylori populations

2:30 - 3:30
Joseph Hacia (University of Southern California)

The Use of DNA Microarrays to Study Non-Human Primate Genetics

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:00 Round Table Discussion

Wednesday, February 13, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Thursday, February 14, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
Jean-Jacques Hublin (Université Bordeaux)

The rise of the Neandertals: another bottle-necking?

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Marta Mirazón Lahr (Cambridge University)

Extinction in recent human evolution

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:30
Susan Holmes (Stanford University)

Comparing trees, geometry and applications.

2:30 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:00 Round Table Discussion
5:00 - 5:30 Social (Refreshments available)
5:30 - 7:00 Conference Dinner-BBQ

Friday, February 15, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
Richard Klein (Stanford University)

Modern Human Origins

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Henry Harpending (University of Utah)

A Wave of Advance Can Generate a Bottleneck

12:00 Conclusion