User:Carl Boettiger/Notebook/Stochastic Population Dynamics/2010/05/12

Stochastic Population Dynamics

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Hastings Beetle Workshop Bob Costantino and Brett Melbourne are joining us for the next two days to talk about stochastic population dynamics in Tribolium. Morning Session, 9a - 11a Outline the individual based model, toolbox Group lunch, noon-1:30 My lab Presentation, 2p-3p Present multidimensional linear noise approximation approach to characterizing the demographically stochastic key class. Afternoon session, 3p-4p Follow-up on understanding noise propagation in age structure dynamics. ( Phylogenetics Workshop, 4-6:30) Group dinner 7:00-9:00 (Details to be transcribed still) Presentation Motivation: qualitative differences from noise -- geometric mean fitness Why demographic noise is often negligible Why it isn't Enhancement Inflation transient bimodality Notion of key class in age structured model Crowley-based model simulation Analytic approximation Insights from linear noise approximation Challenges: inference based and computationally based difficulties.