Evolutionary Biology is founded on the concept that organisms share a common origin and have subsequently diverged through time. Phylogenies represent our attempts to reconstruct those evolutionary histories, and there is probably more interest in phylogenetic reconstruction today than at any time in the past. Markov chains provide an essential mathematical tool in determining the length of time since two organisms shared a common ancestor. For further information, contact Richard Orr , Chair of the Colloquium Committee. The talk will also show how to construct confidence intervals and tolerance intervals associated with the finite mixtures case by solving a non-linear optimization problem.
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Today's talk will be on applications of Cosine and Wavelet Transforms. For further information, contact Richard Orr , Chair of the Colloquium Committee. This lecture will give a glimpse of the variety of descriptive views on numbers and mathematics held by cultures and thinkers in the course of history. Contrary to what mathematicians might think, not all these views were positive or enlightened. Accurate classification of embryo and fetal health using blood pressure and blood flow measurements is important to clinical diagnosis and treatment assessment.