Education
- Ph.D. 1985, Stanford University
- A.B. 1980 University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
Theoretical population genetics; Theory of nonnegative matrices, Markov processes, and spectral graph theory; Theory on the evolution of the variational properties of organisms — evolvability, robustness, modularity, the genotype-phenotype map; The evolution of genetic systems and dispersal; Evolutionary computation: genetic algorithms, genetic programming; Cultural evolution; Social system dynamics, democratic economic systems, and cooperative organization; Ecological sustainability, biodiversity, and restoration; Evolution and Ecology in Hawaii
Recent Publications
- Ram, Y., Altenberg, L., Liberman, U, and Feldman, M.W. 2018. Generation of Variation and a Modified Mean Fitness Principle: Necessity is the Mother of Genetic Invention. Theoretical Population Biology, in press.
- Altenberg, L. 2017. Genetic Information, Mutation Rates, and the Lore of the Error Threshold. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB 2017), Eds. O. Eulenstein and Q. Ding and H. Al-Mubaid, pp. 223-230.
- Altenberg, L., Liberman, U., and Feldman, M.W. 2017. Unified Reduction Principle for the Evolution of Mutation, Migration, and Recombination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, pp. E2392-E2400, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1619655114.
- Altenberg, L. 2017. Probing the Axioms of Evolutionary Algorithm Design: Commentary on “On the mapping of genotype to phenotype in evolutionary algorithms” by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick, and James Maclaurin. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines doi:10.1007/s10710-017-9288-x.
- Altenberg, L. 2016. Norm Statement Considered Harmful: Comment on “Evolution of Unconditional Dispersal in Periodic Environments.” Journal of Biological Dynamics 10 (1): 342-346.
- Altenberg, L. 2016. Evolutionary Computation. In the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology (2):40-47.
Courses
- Spring 2019
- ICS 141 Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science I
- ICS 311 Algorithms
- Fall 2019
- ICS 141 Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science I
- ICS 311 Algorithms
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