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Theoretical and Empirical Advances in Large-Scale Species Tree Estimation

Department: Computer Science

Quarter: Fall 2019

Seminar Date: Nov 15, 2019

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Tandy Warnow

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Tandy Warnow is the Founder Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research combines mathematics, computer science, and statistics to develop improved …

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The estimation of the "Tree of Life" -- a phylogeny encompassing all life on earth--is one of the big Scientific Grand Challenges. Maximum likelihood (ML) is a standard approach for phyloge…

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Sandy Irani

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