Elizabeth S. Allman

Professor	US Mail:
Senior Research Associate, IAB	Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Office: Chapman 308B	University of Alaska Fairbanks
Phone: (907) 474-2479	PO Box 756660
E-mail: e.allman@alaska.edu	Fairbanks, AK 99775

Education

University of California at Los Angeles M.A., 1992
University of California at Los Angeles Ph.D., 1995

Research Interests

Biomathematics, including techniques of phylogenetic tree construction, models of evolution
Statistics, Computational Algebraic Statistics, Singular and Macaulay2
Division algebras; Brauer groups; Galois Theory, particularly computational Galois theory

Recent Papers and Publications

Challenge Problem: Determine the ideal defining the fourth secant variety of P^3 x P^3 x P^3.
Some details, including a prize for its solution. (Posed March 2007)
Congratulations to Shmuel Friedland for solving the set-theoretic version of the problem (spring 2010)! See his preprint on the arXiv.
Further progress by Dan Bates and Luke Oeding is available here.
Still further progress by Friedland, Gross here (April 2011).

Professional Service and Honors

Fellow, American Mathematical Society
Associate Editor, American Mathematical Monthly
My term as Vice-chair, SIAM's new activity group SI(AG)^2 on Algebraic Geometry ended.
See the article about SI(AG)^2 in the December 2009 issue of SIAM news.

Mathematical Models in Biology

An Introduction

Elizabeth S. Allman and John A. Rhodes,
Cambridge University Press, January 2004.
Table of Contents, Preface, etc. bookinfo.pdf

Solution Manual for Mathematical Models in Biology: An Introduction, (electronic)
Elizabeth S. Allman and John A. Rhodes

List of known errata. (Please e-mail additional errors to e.allman@alaska.edu.)

Recent/Upcoming talks and short courses

Algebraic Statistics, State College, PA (June 2012)
Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, MA (Jan 2012)
Evolutionary Genomics Workshop, IPAM, Los Angeles, CA (Nov 2011)
Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology, MBI, Columbus, OH (Aug 2011)
AMS Western Sectional Meeting (May 2011) slides
An Afternoon of Biology and Math, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden (Feb 2011)
Algebraic Geometry in the Sciences, CMA, Oslo, Norway (Jan 2011)
Phylomania, Hobart, Tasmania (Nov 2010)
Evolution Meetings (June 2010)

Slides from less recent talks.

Upcoming Travel

Summer 2013:
Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (July, Aug)

Spring 2013:
UC Berkeley (March)

Fall 2012:
AIM, Palo Alto, CA (Oct)

Some recent Places I've visited:
          May 2012: NIMBioS, TN
          June 2012: Penn State University
          Nov 2011: IPAM, Los Angeles, CA
          Oct 2011: NCSU, Raleigh, NC
          Oct 2011: AIM, Palo Alto, CA
          Sept 2011: NIMBioS, Knoxville, TN
          Aug 2011: MBI, Columbus, OH
          Winter 2011: Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden
          Jan 2011: Oslo, Norway
          Fall 2010: University of Tasmania, Hobart, AU
          May 2010: Laboratoire Statistique et Genome, Evry, France
          July 2009: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
          June 2009: Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary
          Sept 2008, Jan, March 2009: SAMSI, Raleigh, NC
          June 2008: University of Barcelona
          Fall 2007: Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, England
          Nov 2007: INRIA
          Oct 2007: University of Sheffield
          June 2007: Evolution Meetings, Christchurch New Zealand
          April 2007: Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Columbus, OH
          January - April 2007: Long-term visitor at Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, MN