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January 15 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Martin Luther King Day, University Holiday <\/strong><\/p>\n

January 22 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Spintronics: Electronics for the 21st Century <\/strong>
\nDr. Stuart A. Wolf<\/a>
\nDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)<\/p>\n

January 29 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Cold atoms in optical lattices <\/strong>
\nDavid Weiss<\/a>
\nDepartment of Physics; University of California; Berkeley,<\/p>\n

February 5 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Deep South African Gold Mines as Natural Laboratories for Studying Earthquake Physics <\/strong>
\nTom Jordan<\/a>
\nDepartment of Earth Sciences; University of Southern California<\/p>\n

February 12 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Search for Stellar Mass Black Holes <\/strong>
\nDr. Ann Esin
\nCaltech<\/a><\/p>\n

March 5 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Solar neutrinos: where we are, where we are going. <\/strong>
\nJohn Bahcall<\/a>
\nInstitute for Advanced Study<\/p>\n

March 12 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Spring Break <\/strong><\/p>\n

March 19 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Special Event: On March 20, 2001, Stephen Hawking will present a public lecture “The Universe in a Nutshell” at USC. The lecture is sponsored by the CIT-USC Center for Theoretical Physics. <\/strong><\/p>\n

March 26 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Current state of plasma physics research <\/strong>
\nCynthia Kieras Phillips<\/a>
\nPrinceton Plasma Physics Laboratory<\/a> Princeton University<\/p>\n

April 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Molecules and superfluid helium droplets <\/strong>
\nAndrey Vilesov
\nDepartment of Chemistry University of Southern California<\/p>\n

April 9 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Open date <\/strong><\/p>\n

April 16 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Title to be announced <\/strong>
\nShoko Sakai<\/a>
\nDivision of Astronomy UCLA<\/p>\n

April 23 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Interpreting genomic polymorphism data: what history has to tell us <\/strong>
\nSimon Tavare’<\/a>
\nDepartment of Biology And
\nDepartment of Mathematics University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/p>\n

Technological advances in molecular biology have made it possible to sur- vey genome-wide DNA sequence variation in natural populations. These data include restriction fragment length polymorphisms, microsatellite repeats, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and complete DNA sequences of particular loci. The analysis and interpretation of the patterns of variation seen in such data is complicated by the fact that the sampled chromosomes share a common ancestry, thus making the data highly dependent. To make matters worse, the nature of this common ancestry is not known precisely and therefore needs to be modeled. Since the early 80s, population geneti- cists have used the coalescent as a stochastic description of the ancestry of a sample of chromosomes, and there is now an extensive literature on infer- ence and estimation for such processes. In this talk I will give an overview of coalescent methods, touching on a number of applications including infer- ence about the age of mutations and the hunt for disease genes using linkage disequilibrium mapping .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"parent":1545,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1878","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nColloquium Spring 2001 - Department of Physics and Astronomy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/physics\/colloquia\/colloquium-archive\/colloquium-spring-2001\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colloquium Spring 2001 - 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