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 Prof. Manuel Molina University of Extremadura, Spain |
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| Title: Stochastic modeling in biological populations through two-sex branching processes | |
| Abstract: In the general setting of stochastic modeling, branching processes are appropriate mathematical models to describe the probabilistic evolution of dynamical systems. They are an active research area of theoretical and practical interest with applicability to such fields as biology, demography, epidemiology, genetics, population dynamics, and others. Branching processes have especially played a major role in modeling the demographic dynamics of biological population whose size evolves over time due to random births and deaths. In particular, in order to mathematically describe the dynamics of biological populations with sexual reproduction, where females and males coexist and form couples (female-male), several classes of two-sex branching processes have been introduced and investigated. In this talk, we will review the recent contributions to the two-sex branching process theory. We will focus the attention on the class of two-sex branching processes with several mating and reproduction strategies. For such a class, we will present some inferential results about the main reproductive parameters involved in the probability model. | |
| Biography: Manuel Molina is a Professor in Probability and Statistics at the University of Extremadura (Spain). He received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Granada (Spain). His research interest includes stochastic processes, especially branching processes, and their applications. He has published more than 120 research papers in several journals and books, including various journals indexed in the Web of Science – Journal Citation Reports, such as Journal of Applied Probability, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Bernoulli, BioSystems, Communications in Statistics, Ecological Complexity, Statistics & Probability Letters, Mathematical Biosciences, Mathematical Population Studies, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Stochastic Analysis and their Applications, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, or Test. He has presented about 130 scientific works in various international and national conferences. He is actively involved in various research projects, in the editorial board of journals, in the scientific committee of some international conferences and associations, and he serves as a reviewer in a wide range of international journals. | |
