Date
Mon, 04 Jun 2018
Time
15:45 - 16:45
Location
L3
Speaker
RAPHAEL FORIEN
Organisation
Ecole Polytechnique (ParisTech)

I will present a mathematical model for the genetic evolution of a population which is divided in discrete colonies along a linear habitat, and for which the population size of each colony is random and constant in time. I will show that, under reasonable assumptions on the distribution of the population sizes, over large spatial and temporal scales, this population can be described by the solution to a stochastic partial differential equation with constant coefficients. These coefficients describe the effective diffusion rate of genes within the population and its effective population density, which are both different from the mean population density and the mean diffusion rate of genes at the microscopic scale. To do this, I will present a duality technique and a new convergence result for coalescing random walks in a random environment.

 

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