[ont.events] NUMERICAL TAXONOMY CONFERENCE 23

snell@utzoo.uucp (snell) (10/27/89)

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                          Friday 27 October

19:00h Registration and Social Gathering                   RW010

                         Saturday, 28 October

08:15h Registration --St. George Street Entrance, RW.
      Continues throughout the day.

08:45h Roger Hansell, Host
      Welcoming Comments                                   RW107

09:00h Shizuhiko Nishisato
      Classifying multiple-choice patterns by dual scaling RW107

09:25h Robert H. Kretsinger-! and Nancy D. Moncrief
      Classification and evolution of EF-hand,
      calcium modified proteins                            RW107

09:50h COFFEE BREAK--Hallway in front of RW107

10:10h Franois-Joseph Lapointe-! and Pierre Legendre
      The justification of neuroanatomy in taxonomy        RW107

10:35h Tracy McLellan-! and John A. Endler
      Analysis of complex leaf shapes                      RW107

11:00h Demonstrations of Computer Programs (downstairs)

      Pierre Legendre: The "R" Package.                    RW010

      Christopher A. Meacham: MorphoSys                    RW010

12:00h LUNCH

13:30h Christopher A. Meacham
      Present theory and future development of MorphoSys   RW107

13:55h Stuart G. Poss
      Use of MorphoSys image analysis system in studies of
      Scorpaenoid fishes                                   RW107

14:20h Richard J. Jensen
      Studies of shape variation in Oak leaf morphology:
            a comparison of rotational fit methods         RW107

14:45h COFFEE BREAK--Hallway in front of RW107

15:05h Richard A. Lis
      A morphometric analysis of leaf shape in
      _H_o_l_o_d_i_s_c_u_s (Rosaceae)                                RW107

15:30h F. James Rohlf
      "Do-it-yourself" transformation grids                RW107



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15:55h Thomas S. Ray
      Landmark eigenshape analysis: homologous contours    RW107

16:20h Dennis E. Slice
      The fractal dimension as a measure of
      morphometric complexity                              RW107

16:45h Business Meeting (downstairs--RW010)

19:00h Happy Hour and Banquet                              Seeley Hall




                           Sunday, 29 October

 08:30h Registration --St. George Street Entrance, RW.
       Continues until the 10:00h BREAK.
       Thereafter, find Roger Hansell.

 08:45h L.P. Lefkovitch
       Consensus principal components                              RW107

 09:10h Anthony H. Bledsoe
       Quartet similarity of phylogenetic trees reconstructed from
             DNA-DNA hybridization data                            RW107

 09:35h Khidir W. Hilu
       Numerical analysis of quantitative immunological data       RW107

 10:00h COFFEE BREAK--Hallway in front of RW107

10:20h James Archie
       Evaluation of homoplasy levels in molecular sequence data
             using homoplasy excess ratio                          RW107

 10:45h Sampath Kannan, Eugene Lawlor, and Tandy Warnow-!
       Efficient algorithms for phylogenetic trees                 RW107

 11:10h W.H.E. (Bill) Day
       Comparing phylogenies with hypotheses                       RW107

 11:35h Kwang-Tsao Shao and Hang-kwong Luh
       The extension of majority rule consensus methods and
       the significance test of its consensus indices              RW107
 12:00h LUNCH

 13:30h William S.-Y. Wang
       Languages and organisms: representing their
       internal relations                                          RW107

 13:55h Robert R. Sokal
       Migrations in the ethnohistory of Europe                    RW107

 14:20h Leonard Lefkovich
       Conference Summary                                          RW107


-!Speaker




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NT23 REGISTRATION: Regular $55.00 (Canadian), includes
   Mediaeval Banquet.  Guest to Banquet: $25.00.

The Ramsay Wright (RW) building is located at the south-west
   corner of St.George Street and Harbord Street.  _E_n_t_e_r _v_i_a
   _t_h_e _S_t. _G_e_o_r_g_e _S_t_r_e_e_t _d_o_o_r_s.
   --Reception and Registration Mixer in RW010 from 19:00h to
   23:00h, Friday 27 October.
   --Meetings on Saturday and Sunday in same building.
   --Mediaeval Banquet in Seeley Hall, Trinity College, on
   Saturday 28 October, 19:00h to 22:00h (a 5 minute walk from
   the Ramsay Wright building).



















































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Name: Richard Snell
Mail: Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada    M5S 1A1
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