my talk at the Statistics seminar at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh.

[SLIDES]

This talk is about the transition kernels we developed for BEAST. I spend the first half of the talk motivating Bayesian phylogenetics and providing some background. In the second half I move on to discuss our approach and show some results on small data sets.

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.
• This talk by Megan Owen.