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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Probability Seminar

Jason Schweinsberg

UCSD

Tree-valued dynamics associated with the Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent

Abstract:

Consider a population of fixed size that evolves over time. At each time, the genealogical structure of the population can be described by a coalescent tree whose branches are traced back to the most recent common ancestor of the population. This gives rise to a tree-valued stochastic process. We will study this process in the case of populations whose genealogy is given by the Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent. We will focus on the evolution of the time back to the most recent common ancestor and the total length of branches in the tree.

May 12, 2011

10:00 AM

AP&M 6402

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