We are pleased to announce an intensive short course on using R to
perform comparative methods to be held in Santa Barbara on June 11th
to June 15th. This course is funded by the National Science
Foundation, and a number of stipends to cover or defray travel, room,
and board are available to qualified students and post-docs. Topics
covered will include an introduction to the R programming language,
tree manipulation, independent contrasts and phylogenetic generalized
least squares, ancestral state reconstruction, models of character
evolution, diversification analyses, and community phylogenetic
analysis. If you are interested please submit your CV along with a
short (maximum 1 page) description of your research interests,
background, and reasons for taking the course. Admission is
competitive, and the best applications come from students with data
sets to analyze. International applicants are welcome.

To apply visit this URL: tinyurl.com/macro-in-R

Application deadline: April 30th.

Individuals from cultural, racial, linguistic, geographic and
socioeconomic backgrounds that are currently underrepresented in
science are especially encouraged to apply.

Please contact the co-organizers, Michael Alfaro
(michaelalfaro@ucla.edu) and Luke Harmon (lukeh@uidaho.edu) with any
questions.


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David Bapst
Dept of Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago
5734 S. Ellis
Chicago, IL 60637
http://home.uchicago.edu/~dwbapst/
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/paleotree/index.html

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