The conference will take place on 11-13 December 2019. All talks will be held in the Zeeman Building, University of Warwick, in room MS.05. Poster sessions and lunches will be held in the Atrium of the Zeeman building.

Wednesday 11 December

11:00 - 11:55 Registration
11:55 - 12:00 Welcome
12:00 - 12:50 Jochen Blath: Stochastic individual based models for dormancy (and seed banks) in population genetics and evolution
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Ellen Baake: Ancestral lines under selection and recombination
14:50 - 15:40 Poster summaries
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 17:00 Anita Winter: The alpha-Ford chain on cladograms in the diffusion limit
17:00 - 18:30 Poster reception

Thursday 12 December

07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 09:50 Adam Siepel: Mapping gene flow between ancient hominins through demography-aware inference of the ancestral recombination graph
09:50 - 10:40 Jerome Kelleher: Efficiently summarizing relationships in large samples: a general duality between statistics of genealogies and genomes
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 12:00 Alison Etheridge: A spatial Muller's ratchet
12:00 - 12:50 Anton Wakolbinger: Haldane's formula in Cannings models with moderate selection
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Julia Palacios: Statistical summaries of unlabelled genealogies
14:50 - 15:40 Asger Hobolth: Phase-type theory for the coalescent process
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break
19:00 Conference dinner

Friday 13 December

07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 09:50 Martin Möhle: The rate of convergence of the block counting process of exchangeable coalescents with dust
09:50 - 10:40 Iulia Dahmer: Fluctuations of the lengths of the Beta-coalescent
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 12:00 Kari Heine: Posterior sampling for ancestral recombination graphs with coalescent tree bridging
12:00 - 12:50 Richard Everitt: Evolution with recombination using state-of-the-art computational methods
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Amaury Lambert: Stochastic models for co-evolving genomes and species with porous species barriers
14:50 - 15:40 Amandine Véber: Evolution in a spatial continuum - from probabilistic results to statistical questions