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NIMBioS Tutorial Agenda, April 25-27, 2016
Game Theoretical Modeling of Evolution in Structured Populations

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Monday, April 25

8:00-8:45 BREAKFAST at NIMBioS
8:45-9:00 Welcome by Suzanne Lenhart, NIMBioS Associate Director for Education & Outreach
9:00-9:30 Introduction of tutors and participants (Organizers: M. Broom J. Rowell, J. Rychtar, J. Van Cleve)
9:30-10:45 Jonathan Rowell: Introduction to game theory
10:45-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-2:00 Mark Broom: Evolutionary graph theory
12:00-12:05 Group photo
12:05-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-2:00 Mark Broom: General framework
2:00-3:15 Alun Lloyd: Modeling Novel Strategies for Controlling Mosquito-Borne Diseases
3:15-3:30 COFFEE BREAK
3:30-4:00 Jan Rychtar: Territorial raider games and machine learning algorithms
4:00-5:00 Jan Rychtar: Activity - Writing Matlab codes for machine learning and territorial raider games
5:00-6:00 Reception (light snacks provided by NIMBioS)
After 6 DINNER on our own

Tuesday, April 26

8:00-8:45 BREAKFAST at NIMBioS
8:45-10:00 Paulo Shakarian: Diffusion in social networks
10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45-12:00 Sergey Gavrilets: Collective action problem in "us versus nature" and "us versus them" games
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-3:00 Jeremy Van Cleve: Multilevel selection and population genetics in structured populations
3:00-3:30 COFFEE BREAK
3:30-4:30 Jonathan Rowell: Spatially structured biological games when neither players nor space are discrete
4:30-5:30 Jonathan Rowell: Activity - Writing Matlab codes
After 5:30 DINNER on our own

Wednesday, April 27

8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST at NIMBioS
9:00-10:30 Jan Rychtar: Activity - Writing Matlab codes for machine learning and territorial raider games, part 2
10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45-11:45 Mark Broom: Outlooks, application of the framework
11:45-12:00 Final words and adjure
12:00 Lunch


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