Of interest to algorithmically-minded Berkeley graduate students: http://www.msri.org/calendar/programs/ProgramInfo/124/show_program
If you are a Math Ph.D. student and you wish to fully attend, please let Ole Hald know, so you can be an "official UC Berkeley participant". Bernd Visit the Mathematics of Phylogenetic Trees webpage: http://bio.math.berkeley.edu/classes/290/fa2003