Mark your calendars! This is a preliminary announcement for a workshop on phylogenetic trees which will be held at Stanford University on Saturday, May 8th. This workshop is part of a series of meetings on Reasoning with Diagrams sponsored by The Patrick Suppes Center for History and Philosophy of Science, Cognition and Language: Claire and John Radway Research Workshop, Symbolic Systems Program, and The Center for the Study of Language and Information.
We have a great list of speakers scheduled: Susan Holmes (Stanford, Statistics) - Title TBA David Mindell (California Academy of Sciences) - Title TBA Brent Mishler (UC Berkeley, Integrative Biology) - "Tree-Thinking Without Species" David Baum (Wisconsin-Madison, Botany) - "The Diversity of Evolutionary Trees" Joel Velasco (Stanford, Philosophy) - "Tree-Thinking Without the Tree" The workshop will begin at 9:15am and end at 5:30. Food and other refreshments will be served so RSVPs are appreciated to help get an accurate count (there is no registration fee). The workshop will be held in 100 Cordura Hall at CSLI (here: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/locations.shtml ) A more detailed announcement will follow. For more information, please contact me: Joel Velasco ([email protected]) Hope to see you all there, Joel
