The Webinar on Genetics, Archeology and a Crime took place on Friday, October 29th, 2021 from 12 pm until 1 pm, with Natalia Jonard, Professor of Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker explained that a graph is a set of points and lines that connect some of the points and defined what the intersection graphs are. Natalia Jonard then described what the interval graphs are and narrated their origin in genetics with Seymour Benzer. The speaker shared that Delvert Ray Fulkerson and Oliver Gross characterized the interval graphs using matrices, a result that was applied by David Kendall to solve problems in archeology and by Joel Ephraim Cohen to study the ecosystems. Natalia Jonard also presented how we can use mathematics to solve the murder of the Duke of Densmore.
