Selected Presentations

• Six lectures from the summer school on algebraic statistics, tropical geometry and computational biology, Nordfjordeid, Norway, June 2006.
  
  
• Alignment of Drosophila genomes (PDF), Clay Institute Workshop on Algebraic Statistics and Computational Biology, November 2005.
  
  
• Introduction to Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology (Powerpoint), April 2005.
  
  
• Tropical geometry for biology (Powerpoint), AMS meeting Atlanta, special session on tropical geometry, January 2005.
  
  
• Identifying functional elements in the human genome -- joint talk with Manolis Dermitzakis (Powerpoint), AMS meeting Atlanta, special session on mathematical sciences contributions to the biomedical sciences, January 2005.
  
  
• Parametric inference for biological sequence analysis (Powerpoint), Berkeley, January 2004.
  
  
• Comparative Genomics for Biological Discovery (Powerpoint), Berkeley, February 2004.
  
  
• Combinatorial aspects of gene finding and alignment (Powerpoint), A series of two talks for the workshop on "Combinatorics and Combinatorial Aspects of Biology", New Plymouth, New Zealand, January 2003.
  
  
• Picking alignments from (Steiner) trees (Powerpoint), Bay Area Discrete Math Day, October 2002.
  
  
• Overview of gene finding and comparative genomics (Powerpoint), Jackson Labs, August 2002.
  
  
• Applications of hidden Markov models to sequence analysis (PDF), Harvard University (part of "Applications of Statistics to Genomics" short course), January 2002.
  
  
• The mathematics of gene recognition (link to 56kbps video), MSRI/PMMB short course on mathematical and computational challenges in molecular and cell biology (held at MSRI), June 2000.