Mathematical models

New approach to genetic ancestry developed by Stanford researchers provides estimates of the number of African and European genealogical ancestors in typical family trees.

If all the games in a single-elimination sports tournament are played sequentially in the same arena, in how many possible sequences can the games be played?

A century of attentive groundskeeping has turned the Stanford campus into a museum of mathematical phylogenetics, says Noah Rosenberg, creator of the Stanford X-Tree Project

Marc Feldman's group offers a theoretical model to capture the movement of fads and tradition in a population

CEHG co-director Noah Rosenberg explains why biology, a field once thought relatively removed from mathematics, is quickly becoming a hotbed of computational science