This page hosts information on Eugenio Buzzoni' talk "What is... the Wright-Fisher diffusion?" at the "What is …?" seminar. This talk will help you better understand the talk by Jochen Blath at the BMS Days.
Where & When
Tuesday, February 19, 2019, 10am (sharp!) @ BMS Loft, 3rd floor at Urania
Abstract
The Wright-Fisher diffusion - mainly expressed as the unique solution of a stochastic differential equation - is a key object in probabilistic population genetics. We will see what it looks like, defining Brownian motion and stochastic integrals along the way.