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Complexity Forum- Andreas Dress
Speaker: Andreas Dress (Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai)
Title: Trees, splits and nets: reconstructing history in biology, literature and language
Abstract:
I will discuss a general method by which one can infer historical or pre-historical events, even though direct evidence may be lacking. I will present some specific applications to data sets from biology, literature (the "phylogeny" of the Canterbury tales), and language (based on the WALS data base --- the Leipzig World Atlas of Language Structure). Much of the talk will require little or no mathematical background, but I will introduce the (mathematical) structures that enable investigations to be developed in a quantitative way. This development follows from basic mathematical ideas such as tight-span and split-decomposition theory which I will explain. Both my lectures are based on joint work with Kathi Huber, Jack Koolen, Vincent Moulton, WU Taoyang, and many others.