These two lectures will focus on the properties of travelling waves or invading fronts generated by simple reaction diffusion models. Then the second lecture will present simple models of evolution related to the noisy Fisher-KPP equation, and discuss how selection affects the statistical properties of genealogies. ★Tokyo College https://www.tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/

These two lectures will focus on the properties of travelling waves or invading fronts generated by simple reaction diffusion models. After a short introduction to the many faces (growth models, branching Brownian motion, disordered systems) of the Fisher-KPP equation the first lecture will review some of its best known properties as well as some more recent aspects. ★Tokyo College https://www.t…