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Xavier Thibert-Plante

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In brief:
Phone: (514) 398-4086 ext 09058
Office: 104D Redpath Museum, 859 Sherbrooke St. W., Montréal
E-mail: xavier [ dot] thibert-plante [ at ] mail [ dot ] mcgill [dot ] ca
Status: Ph.D. candidate at the Hendry Lab under the supervision of Andrew Hendry, McGill University
Education: M.Sc. in Geography in the Complex Systems Laboratory of Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Lael Parrott, 2005
B.Sc., Double major in Honor's Physics and Computer Science, Université de Montréal, 2003
Research Interests: Evolutionary Ecology, Speciation, Individual-based Modeling, Game Theory, Complex Systems
Publications:
7. Erika Crispo, Joseph D. DiBattista, Cristian Correa, Xavier Thibert-Plante, Ann E. McKellar, Amy K. Schwartz, Daniel Berner, Luis Fernando De León, and Andrew P. Hendry (2010)
The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in response to anthropogenic disturbance,
Evolutionary Ecology Research, 12(1): 47--66.
Text (PDF) | Bibtex

6. Xavier Thibert-Plante and Andrew P. Hendry (2009)
Five questions on ecological speciation addressed with individual-based simulations,
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22(1): 109--123.
Abstract | Text (PDF) | HTML | DOI | Bibtex

5. Lael Parrott, Raphaël Proulx and Xavier Thibert-Plante (2008)
3D Metrics for the Analysis of Spatiotemporal Data in Ecology,
Ecological Informatics, 3(6):343--353.
Abstract | Text (PDF) | Pre-print | DOI | Bibtex

4. Joseph D. DiBattista, Kevin A. Feldheim, Xavier Thibert-Plante, Samuel H. Gruber and Andrew P. Hendry (2008).
A genetic assessment of polyandry and breeding site fidelity in lemon sharks,
Molecular Ecology, 17(14): 3337--3351.
Abstract | Text (PDF) | DOI | Bibtex

3. Xavier Thibert-Plante and Paul Charbonneau (2007).
Crossover and Evolutionary Stability in the Prisoner's Dilemma,
Evolutionary Computation, 15(3):321-344.
Abstract | Text (PDF) | Draft of the manuscript (PDF) * | DOI | Bibtex

2. Xavier Thibert-Plante and Lael Parrott (2007).
Prisoner's Dilemma and Clusters on Small-World Networks,
Complexity, 12(6):22-36
Abstract | Text (PDF) | DOI | Bibtex

1. Xavier Thibert-Plante, David A. Yuen and Alain P. Vincent (2003).
A simple spectral algorithm for solving large-scale Poisson equation in 2D,
Computer Physics Communications, 154(2):89-97
Abstract | Full Text + Links | Text (PDF) | DOI | Bibtex
Publications that I worked on (Acknowledgments) :
III. Dibattista, J. D., Feldheim, K. A., Gruber, S. H. and Hendry, A. P. (2007).
When bigger is not better: selection against large size, high condition and fast growth in juvenile lemon sharks
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20(1):201-212.
Abstract | Text (PDF)

II. Hier Majumder, C. A., Yuen, D. A. and Vincent, A. P. (2004).
Four dynamical regimes for a starting plume model
Physics of Fluids, 16(5):1516-1531.
Abstract | Text (PDF)

I. Hier Majumder, C., Vincent, A. P. and Yuen, D. A. (2002).
The growth of point source plumes at Rayleigh numbers up to 10^8 and Prandtl numbers up to 1000
Visual Geosciences, 7:10.1007/s10069-002-1025-8
Text
In the media:
3. McGill Red Tape Contest winner, www.McGill.ca front page ( in rotation, March 2008). Screen shot, March 27, 2008. Also in the McGill reporter, April 3, 2008.
2. Notes from the field: Sharks of the shallows , McGill Reporter, McGill University, January 24, 2008. (Data collection of publications 4 and III. All credits go to Joey and the Bimini Biological Field Station team.)
1. When biology inspire physics, Forum, Université de Montréal, September 17, 2007. (About publication number 3)

Professional memberships:
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE)
The Society for the Study of Evolution

Present and past collaborators:
Paul Carbonneau
Erika Crispo
Joey DiBattista
Andrew Hendry
Jean-Sébastien Moore
Lael Parrott
Raphaël Proulx
Erin Reardon
Alain Vincent
David A. Yuen
Useful links
CompuCell 3D: CompuCell is an open source software modeling environment and pde solver.
Discrete Dynamics Lab: Tools for researching Cellular Automata, Random Boolean Networks, multi-value Discrete Dynamical Networks, and beyond
Gnuplot: Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility for UNIX, IBM OS/2, MS Windows, DOS, Macintosh, VMS, Atari and many other platforms.
FSTAT: FSTAT is a computer package for PCs which estimates and tests gene diversities and differentiation statistics from codominant genetic markers.
Genepop: GENEPOP is a population genetics software package originally developed by Michel Raymond and Francois Rousset, at the Laboratiore de Genetique et Environment, Montpellier, France.
Maxima: Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors.
MIGRATE-N: Migrate estimates effective population sizes and past migration rates between n population assuming a migration matrix model with asymmetric migration rates and different subpopulation sizes.
NetLogo: NetLogo is a cross-platform multi-agent programmable modeling environment.
Octave: GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations.
R: R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
Sage: Open Source Mathematics Software: Sage is a free open source mathematics software system spanning a huge range of mathematics including algebra, calculus, combinatorics, number theory and graph theory.
SciLab: Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.
SciPy: SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
SDR Loop: Structurally Dissolvable Self-Reproducing Loop and Evoloop: Evolving SDSR Loop
Structure: The program structure is a free software package for using multi-locus genotype data to investigate population structure.
Last update: April 2, 2010.
* The final version of this article has been published in Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 15, Issue 3, published by The MIT Press.