Theory and Practice of Direct Optimization using POY

American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY
May 16-18, 2005

Instructors:

Gonzalo Giribet
Associate Professor of Biology and Associate Curator of Invertebrates
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary
Biology
Harvard University

Ward Wheeler
Curator of Invertebrates
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History

This three-day course is intended (but not restricted) for graduate
students and postdoctoral fellows. It will include systematic theory,
tree search and character optimization techniques under parsimony and
maximum likelihood, use of parallelism in POY, and hands-on use of POY
including example data sets.

Graduate Students and postdocs are eligible for a US$500 travel grant
(consideration may be given to the number of labs/universities
represented).

To apply, please send the following materials to Tanya Das
(tdas@...), Government Relations, American Museum of Natural
History, Central Park West at 79th St, New York, NY 10024-5192:

1. Curriculum vitae
2. 500 word statement of current research
3. Letter from advisor (if student or postdoc)

Deadline for applications is March 1st, 2005. Admissions and travel
awards will be announced by March 31st.

This course is supported by a grant from the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.