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New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium 2000
November 26-29, 2000
Dept of Mathematics, University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand

Organizers
Kevin Broughan, Rua Murray, Ernie Kalnins, Stephen Joe

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A supertree method for rooted trees
by
Charles Semple
University of Canterbury
Coauthors: Mike Steel (University of Canterbury)

A basic problem in several areas of classification, particularly evolutionary biology, is the following: amalgamate a collection of leaf-labelled trees (the input trees) into a single output tree (called a supertree), so that the output tree best represents the information displayed in the input trees. In this talk, we discuss a new technique for amalgamating rooted leaf-labelled trees, and list some of its attractive properties.

Date received: October 1, 2000

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