Mathematical models
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Insight into African American ancestry
New approach to genetic ancestry developed by Stanford researchers provides estimates of the number of African and European genealogical ancestors in typical family trees.
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Stanford researcher sees evolutionary math in March Madness basketball
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?
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Stanford professor spotlights evolutionary tree concepts with campus trees
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
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Modeling the role of conformity and anti-conformity
Marc Feldman's group offers a theoretical model to capture the movement of fads and tradition in a population
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How biology is becoming more mathematical
CEHG co-director Noah Rosenberg explains why biology, a field once thought relatively removed from mathematics, is quickly becoming a hotbed of computational science
