Third year talk

My talk at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology Postgraduate Symposium 2017

[SLIDES]

This talk is about the transition kernels we developed for BEAST. I spend most of the talk motivating Bayesian phylogenetics and providing some background. At the end I move on to show some results on small data sets.

Here's a nice animation of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm I found online:

If this is up your alley, you might want to take a look at some of the animations I've put together to illustrate MCMC on trees.

For this talk I have stolen figures and/or slides from:

• Erick Matsen and Chris Whidden;
• Paul Lewis;
• Mark Holder;
• Sebastian Hoehna;
• This paper.