Slides from past talks

Joint Statistics Meetings, special session organized by B. Larget, Seattle, WA, (August 2006)

AMS short course Modeling and Simulation of Biological Networks (Jan 2006 - immediately preceding the Joint Meetings)

AMS and MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, co-organizer with S. Sullivant of special session on Algebraic Statistics: Theory and Practice (Jan 2006)

Workshop on Algebraic Statistics and Computational Biology at the Clay Mathematics Institute.  (Nov. 2005)

Workshop presentation at The Mathematical Biosciences Institute at the Ohio State University as part of MBI's workshop "Phylogeography and Phylogenetics" organized by Craig Moritz, Michael Hickerson, and Dennis Pearl (September 2005)

Satellite conference at University of Buenos Aires (August 2005)

XVI Coloquio Latinoamericano de Álgebra, Uruguay (August 2005)

Institute for Advanced Study - Park City Mathematics Institute "The Mathematics of Phylogenetic Trees", undergraduate course.  (June - July 2005)

Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny -  Institut Henri Poincaré (June 2005)

Evolution 2005 (June 2005)

MEGA 2005 - The Eighth International Symposium on Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry: "Computing in and with algebraic geometry: Theory, Algorithms, Implementations, Applications." (May 2005) -- slides

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, April 2005.

Northeastern University, (talk by J. Rhodes), April 2005.

Dartmouth College, Feb. 2005.

Maine Medical Center Research Institute, the Jackson Laboratories, University of Maine Orono, Video Lecture "Probabilistic Models of Base Substitution: (the Jukes-Cantor distance)", Computational Methods in Genomics, Nov. 2004.

Colby College Mathematics Colloquium "Phylogenetics: Techniques of Tree Construction", Waterville, ME, Sept. 2004.

Evolution 2004,  "Phylogenetic Invariants and Parameter Recovery for the General Markov + Immutable Sites (GM+I) Model, Ft. Collins, CO, July 2004.

Valley Geometry Seminar, "The Algebra of Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetic Tree Construction", Amherst, MA, April 2004.

The New Zealand Annual Phylogeny Meeting, "Constructing phylogenetic invariants for the general Markov model of sequence mutation", Mordor, New Zealand, Feb. 2004.

American Institute of Mathematics Workshop on Computational Algebraic Statistics, "Progress towards Understanding the Phylogenetic Ideal", Palo Alto, CA, Dec. 2003.

Video Conference: "Models of Molecular Evolution: An Introduction", University of Maine Orono/Jackson Laboratory Bar Harbor, ME with exercises.  For MAT 500: Computational Methods in Genomics, Nov. 2003.

"Algebraic Techniques of Phylogeny Reconstruction", Statistics, Combinatorics, and Related Areas, University of Southern Maine, Oct. 2003

Mathematics of Phylogenetic Trees, University of California Berkeley , Sept. 2003