Curriculum Vitae
SETH SULLIVANT
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North Carolina State University
Department of Mathematics
3114 SAS Hall
Box 8205
Raleigh, NC 27695
(919) 513–7445
smsulli2@ncsu.edu
http://www4.ncsu.edu/˜smsulli2
Education/Employment
2014 –
2010 – 2014
2008 – 2010
2005 – 2008
2005 Ph.D.
2002 M.A.
2000 B.A.
Professor, North Carolina State University
Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
Junior Fellow, Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley, Mathematics (advisor: Bernd Sturmfels)
San Francisco State University, Mathematics (advisor: Serkan Hoşten)
University of California, Berkeley, Mathematics
Scientific/Academic honors and grants
2016 – 2019
2013 – 2017
2012
2012
2011
2010 – 2016
2009 – 2016
2009 – 2010
2007 – 2010
2005
2005
2001 – 2005
2004
2000
National Science Foundation Grant “Mathematical Phylogenetics” ($350,000)
NCSU University Faculty Scholar
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
MAA Invited Address, Joint Mathematics Meeting, Boston, MA
AMS Invited Address, AMS Southeastern Section Meeting, Winston-Salem, NC
National Science Foundation CAREER Grant “Algebraic Problems in Statistics
and Biology” ($400,000)
Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering ($ 875,000)
NCSU Faculty Research and Professional Development Fund “Identifiability Problems in Algebraic Statistics” ($ 4,000)
National Science Foundation Grant “Algebraic Statistical Models” ($ 106,457 )
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (declined)
Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize (Berkeley Math Department)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Charles B. Morrey, Jr. Award (Berkeley Math Department)
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize (Berkeley Math Department)
Grants for Conference Support
2014 – 2016
2014 – 2016
2014
2012
NSA Conference Grant “Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics” (PI- Nathan Reading, co-PIs Hersh, Miller, Pataki, Sullivant) ($12,000)
NSF Conference Grant “Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics” (PI- Nathan Reading, co-PIs Hersh, Miller, Pataki, Sullivant) ($28,000)
NSF Conference Grant “Conference Support: Algebraic Statistics at the Illinois
Institute of Technology” (PI- Sonja Petrovic, co-PIs, Stasi, Sullivant, Yoshida)
($10,000)
NSF Conference Grant “Conference Support: Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies at Pennsylvania State University” (PI- Jason Morton (PSU), Co-PIs- Denker,
Petrovic, Slavkovic, Sullivant) ($38,000)
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NSA Conference Grant “Applications of Algebraic Geometry” (PI- Sullivant; CoPI- Daniel Bates) ($14,300)
NSF Conference Grant “Conference Support: Mittag-Leffler Program on Algebraic Geometry with a View Towards Applications– Satellite Conferences” (PI
Elizabeth Allman (U Alaska– Fairbanks), co-PI Sullivant) ($48,000)
Research interests
Algebraic statistics; applications to evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, graphical models, contingency tables, and disclosure limitation; commutative, combinatorial, and computational algebra;
applied algebraic geometry
Publications
Books
2009 1. (with M. Drton and B. Sturmfels) Lectures on Algebraic Statistics. Oberwolfach Seminar
Series 39, Birkhauser.
2008 2. (edited with M. Putinar) Emerging Applications of Algebraic Geometry. IMA Series 149,
Springer.
Submitted journal articles
2015 3. (with A. Fink and J. Rajchgot) Matrix Schubert varieties and Gaussian conditional independence models
4. (with D. I. Bernstein) Unimodular binary hierarchical models.
5. (with E. Gross) The maximum likelihood threshold of a graph.
6. (with J. Xi) Sequential importance sampling for the Ising model
Journal articles in press
2015 7. (with D. I. Bernstein) Normal binary hierarchical models. To appear in Experimental
Mathematics
8. (with E. Allman and J. Rhodes) Statistically consistent k-mer methods for phylogenetic
tree reconstruction. To appear in Journal of Computational Biology
Peer-reviewed journal articles
2015 9. (with J. Rauh) Lifting Markov bases and higher codimension toric fiber products. J.
Symbolic Comput. 74 (2016), 276–307.
10. (with N. Meshkat and M. Eisenberg) Identifiability results for several classes of linear
compartment models. Bull. Math. Biol. 77 (2015), no. 8, 1620–1651.
11. (with D. I. Bernstein, L. Ho, C. Long, M. Steel, and K. St.John) Bounds on the expected
size of the maximum agreement subtree. SIAM J. Discrete Math. 29 (2015), no. 4,
2065–2074
12. (with Colby Long) Tying up loose strands: the defining equations of the strand symmetric
model J. Algebr. Stat. 6 (2015), no. 1, 17–23.
13. (with C. Long) Identifiability of Jukes-Cantor 3-tree mixtures. Advances in Applied Mathematics. 64 (2015), 89–110.
2014 14. (with T. Kahle and J. Rauh) Positive margins and primary decomposition. Journal of
Commutative Algebra 39 (2014), 335–372
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15. (with R. Davidson) Distance-based phylogenetic methods around a polytomy. IEEE/ACM
Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 1307.5908 11 (2014) 325335
16. (with A. Mahdi and N. Meshkat) Structural identifiability of viscoelastic mechanical systems. PLoS ONE 9(2): e86411. 1308.4950
17. (with A. Engström and T. Kahle) Multigraded commutative algebra of graph decompositions. J. Algebraic Combin. 39 (2014), no. 2, 335372.
18. (with N. Meshkat) Identifiable reparametrizations of linear compartment models J. Symbolic Comput. 63 (2014), 46–67. 1305.5768
2013 19. (with L. Garcia-Puente and S. Petrovic) Graphical Models in Macaulay2, Journal of
Software for Algebra and Geometry, 5 (2013)
20. (with J. Draisma and K. Talaska) Positivity for Gaussian graphical models.
Appl. Math.. 50 (2013), no. 5, 661–674.
Adv. in
21. (with R. Davidson) Polyhedral combinatorics of UPGMA cones. Adv. in Appl. Math.
50 (2013), no. 2, 327338.
2012 22. (with E. Allman and J. Rhodes) When do phylogenetic mixture models mimic other
phylogenetic models? Systematic Biology (2012) 61 (6): 1049-1059
23. The disentangling number for phylogenetic mixtures. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 26-2 (2012), pp. 856–859
24. (with J. Rhodes) Identifiability of large phylogenetic mixture models. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 74 (2012), no. 1, 212–231.
25. (with C. Hillar) Finite Gröbner bases in infinite dimensional polynomial rings and applications. Advances in Mathematics 221 (2012) 1-25
26. (with F. Ardila and M. Owen) Computing geodesics in CAT(0) cubical complexes. Advances in Applied Mathematics 48 (2012) 142–163.
2011 27. (with H. Bidkhori) Eulerian-Catalan numbers. Electron. J. Combin. 18 (2011), no. 1,
Paper 187, 10 pp
28. (with E. Allman, S. Petrović, and J. Rhodes) Identifiability of two-tree mixtures for groupbased models. IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics,
8 no. 3 (2011) 710-722.
29. (with M. Drton and R. Foygel) Global identifiability of linear structural equation models.
Annals of Statistics. 39 no.2 (2011) 865–886.
2010 30. Normal binary graph models. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Special
Issue: Algebraic Methods in Computational Statistics, 64 no.4 (2010) 717-726
31. (with K. Talaska and J. Draisma) Trek separation for Gaussian graphical models. Annals
of Statistics, 38 no.3 (2010) 1665-1685.
2009 32. (with N. Beerenwinkel) Markov models for accumulating mutations, Biometrika 96 no.
3 (2009) 645–661.
33. (with J. Sidman) Prolongations and computational algebra. Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 61 no. 4 (2009) 930–949.
34. A Gröbner basis for the secant ideal of the second hypersimplex, Journal of Commutative
Algebra, 1 no. 2 (2009) 327–338.
35. Gaussian conditional independence relations have no finite complete characterization.
Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 213 (2009) 1502–1506.
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2008 36. (with B. Sturmfels) Toric geometry of cuts and splits. Michigan Mathematical Journal,
57 (2008) 689-709 (special issue in honor of Mel Hochster).
37. Algebraic geometry of Gaussian Bayesian networks. Adv. in Appl. Math. 40 (2008), no.
4, 482–513.
38. Combinatorial symbolic powers. J. Algebra 319 (2008), no. 1, 115–142.
2007 39. (with M. Drton) Algebraic statistical models. Statist. Sinica 17 (2007), no. 4, 1273–1297
40. Toric fiber products. J. Algebra 316 (2007), no. 2, 560–577.
41. (with S. Hoşten) A finiteness theorem for Markov bases of hierarchical models. J. Combin.
Theory Ser. A 114 (2007), no. 2, 311–321.
42. (with M. Drton and B. Sturmfels) Algebraic factor analysis: tetrads, pentads, and beyond.
Probab. Theory Related Fields 138 (2007), no. 3-4, 463–493.
2006 43. Compressed polytopes and statistical disclosure limitation. Tohoku Mathematical Journal
58 (2006), 433-445.
44. (with B. Sturmfels) Combinatorial secant varieties. Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied
Mathematics 2 (2006) 285–309.
45. (with Y. Chen and I. Dinwoodie) Sequential importance sampling for multiway tables.
Annals of Statistics. 34 (2006) No. 1, 523-545
46. (with N. Eriksson, S. E. Fienberg, and A. Rinaldo) Polyhedral conditions for the nonexistence of the MLE for hierarchical log-linear models. Journal of Symbolic Computation:
special issue on Computational Algebraic Statistics, 41 (2006), 222–233.
47. (with A. Slavkovic) The space of compatible full conditionals is a unimodular toric variety.
Journal of Symbolic Computation: special issue on Computational Algebraic Statistics,
41 (2006), 196–209.
2005 48. Small contingency tables with large gaps. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. 18
(2005), no. 4, 787–793.
49. (with B. Sturmfels) Toric ideals of phylogenetic invariants. Journal of Computational
Biology, 12 no. 2 (2005), 204–228.
2004 50. (with A. Dobra) A divide-and-conquer algorithm for generating Markov bases of multiway tables. Computational Statistics 19 (2004), 347–366.
51. (with S. Hoşten) Ideals of adjacent minors. Journal of Algebra 277 (2004), 615-642.
2003 52. (with M. Develin) Markov bases of binary graph models. Annals of Combinatorics, 7
(2003), 441-466.
2002 53. (with S. Hoşten) Gröbner bases and polyhedral geometry of reducible and cyclic models.
Journal of Combinatorial Theory: Series A 100 (2002) no. 2, 277-301.
Conference publications and book chapters (peer-reviewed and/or invited)
2010 54. (with L. Garcia and S. Spielvogel) Identifying causal effects with computer algebra. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 26th Conferences, AUAI Press,
2010.
2008 55. (with S. Hoşten) Algebraic complexity of maximum likelihood estimation for bivariate
missing data., Special Volume in Honor of Giovanni Pistone, 15 pages. arXiv:0709.0935
2005 56. (with N. Eriksson, K. Ranestad, and B. Sturmfels) Phylogenetic algebraic geometry. In
Projective Varieties with Unexpected Properties, edited by C. Ciliberto, et al., Walter de
Gruyter, Berlin
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57. (with M. Casanellas) The strand symmetric model. Chapter in Algebraic Statistics for
Computational Biology, (eds. L. Pachter and B. Sturmfels) 2005.
58. (with M. Casanellas and L. Garcia) Catalog of small trees. Chapter in Algebraic Statistics
for Computational Biology (eds. L. Pachter and B. Sturmfels), 2005.
Lecture series, lectures, and presentations
Lecture series
2015 July Current Trends on Gröbner Bases. Mathematical Society of Japan, Seasonal Institute
[3 lectures]
2008 May MFO, Oberwolfach, Germany: Algebraic Statistics [4 lectures]
2007 Aug. Texas A & M, College Station, TX: Applicable Algebraic Geometry [5 lectures]
June TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Algebraic Statistics [15 lectures]
2006 July Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina: Algebraic Statistics [6 lectures]
June Nordfjordeid, Norway: Algebraic Statistics, Computational Biology, and Tropical Geometry [6 lectures]
Invited Conference Talks
2016 July Minisymposium on Geometric Phylogenetics, SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Mar. Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods in Mathematical Biology, AMS
Sectional Meeting, Athens, GA.
Mar. Special Session on Combinatorial and Computational Algebra, AMS Sectional Meeting,
Athens, GA.
Jan. Special Session on Nonlinear Algebra, Joint Mathematics Meeting, Seattle, WA.
2015 Nov. Special Session on Applications of CAT(0) Cube Complexes, AMS Sectional Meetings,
Rutgers, NJ.
Oct. MBI Colloquium, Ohio State University.
Oct. Special Session on Algebraic Statistics, AMS Sectional Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Oct. Special Session on Mathematics of Evolution, AMS Sectional Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Aug. Minisymposium on Phylogenetics, Joint Statistics Meetings, Seattle, WA.
Aug. Minisymposium on Combinatorial Phylogenetics, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Daejeon, South Korea.
Aug. Minisymposium on Graphical Models, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Daejeon, South Korea.
July Current Trends on Gröbner Bases, Osaka, Japan.
2014 Dec. Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Oct. Clemson Discrete Math Conference, Clemson, SC.
Aug. Prague Stochastics, Prague, Czech Republic.
Aug. Special Session on Identifiability of Biological Models, SIAM Conference on the Life
Sciences, Charlotte, NC.
Jan. Computational Algebraic Statistics, Theory and Applications, Kyoto, Japan.
2013 June Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry (MEGA), Frankfurt, Germany.
Mar. Special Session on Algebraic combinatorics, AMS Southeast Sectional Meeting, Oxford,
MS.
2012 July International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) Tutorial,
Grenoble, France.
Apr. Workshop on Graphical Models: Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences, Fields
Institute, Toronto, Canada.
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2009
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2007
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Mar. Special Session on Mathematical Statistics, AMS Central Sectional Meeting, Lawrence,
KS.
Mar. Bay Area Discrete Math Day, Berkeley, CA.
Jan. MAA Invited Address, Joint Mathematics Meeting, Boston, MA.
Sep. Invited Address, AMS Southeast Sectional Meeting, Winston-Salem, NC.
July Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary.
June Toric Geometry and Applications, Leuven, Belgium.
June Applications of Computer Algebra, Houston, TX.
Apr. International Indian Statistical Association Meeting, Raleigh, NC.
Feb. An Afternoon of Biology and Mathematics, Stockholm, Sweden.
Aug. Special Session on Graphical Models, IMS Annual Meeting, Göteborg, Sweden.
Aug. Minisymposium on Algebraic Statistics, SIAM Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Mar. Workshop on Combinatorics, Enumeration, and Invariant Theory, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Mar. Special Session on Combinatorial Algebra, AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Lexington, KY.
Mar. Special Session on Advances in Algebraic Statistics, AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Lexington, KY.
Jan. Commutative Algebra Meetings in the Southeast, UCF, Orlando, FL.
Jan. AMS-SIAM Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Geometry, Joint Mathematics
Meetings, San Francisco, CA.
Oct. Special Session on Applicable Algebraic Geometry, AMS Central Sectional Meeting,
Waco, TX.
Aug. Session on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics, Joint Statistics Meeting, Washington D.C.
May Texas Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Texas A & M, College Station, TX.
Apr. Evolutionary Biology and Phylogenetics, SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC.
Mar. Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics and Probability, AMS Central Sectional Meeting, Urbana, IL.
Dec. Algebraic Statistics Workshop, MSRI, Berkeley, CA.
Nov. GSU-USC Commutative Algebra Seminar (National Meeting), Columbia, SC.
Oct. Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Geometry. AMS Western Sectional Meeting, Vancouver, BC.
July Mathematical Aspects of Graphical Models, Durham, UK.
May Mathematical Explorations in Contemporary Statistics, Sestri Levante, Italy.
Mar. Special Session on Toric Varieties. SIAM Southeastern sectional meeting, Orlando, FL.
Jan. Special Session on Secant Varieties and Related Topics, Joint Mathematics Meeting,
San Diego, CA.
Nov. Special Session on Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry and Statistics
AMS Southeastern Sectional, Murfreesboro, TN.
Oct. Multivariate Interpolation– Its Relation to Algebraic Statistics, Classical Algebraic Geometry, and Computational Complexity Theory, Sestri Levante, Italy.
June Commutative Algebra and Its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, BIRS, Banff, Canada.
Jan. International Conference on Theoretical and Practical Effectivity of Gröbner Bases,
RIMS, Kyoto, Japan.
Nov. New England Discrete Math Day, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.
Aug. Computational and Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, Fields Institute, Toronto.
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July Special Session on Graphical and Algebraic Statistical Models, European Meeting of
Statisticians, Torun, Poland.
2004 Jan. Special Session on Geometry and Combinatorics, Joint Math Meeting, Phoenix, AZ.
2003 Dec. Computational Algebraic Statistics, American Institute of Math, Palo Alto, CA.
July Commutative Algebra: Presentations by Young Researchers, AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer
Research Conference, Snowbird, UT.
July Lattice Points in Polyhedra, AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conf., Snowbird, UT.
June Workshop on Stochastic Computation, SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC.
May Special Session on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, AMS
Western Section Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2002 Nov. Combinatorics and Integer Programming of Multidimensional Tables, INFORMS, San
Jose, CA.
June Symbolic Computational Algebra 2002, ORCCA, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Feb. Multidimensional Tables: Statistics, Optimization and Gröbner bases, Davis, CA.
Colloquia and Seminars
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
Mathematical Biosciences Institute, NCSU Statistics
U. Colorado– Boulder, U. South Carolina
George Mason U., Georgia Tech, North Carolina State U.
U. California– Berkeley, San Francisco State U., UNC– Chapel Hill, MSRI, North
Carolina State U.
North Carolina State U., Institut Mittag-Leffler, Lund U., Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan,
Arizona State U.
U. Kentucky, George Washington U., U. North Carolina.
U. Pennsylvania., North Carolina State U.
U. Toronto, U. Massachusetts– Amherst, Georgia Tech, North Carolina State U.,
U. Kansas, U. Oregon, U. California– Davis, Boston U., U. Minnesota, Colorado
State U., Wellesley College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard U., U. Chicago, U. Warwick, U. Minnesota, IMA, Colorado State U., Ohio State U., U. Wisconsin– Madison, McGill U.,
U. Illinois– Chicago
Harvard U., U. Pennsylvania, San Francisco State U., U. California–Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard U., Queen’s U., Duke U., U. Chicago, U. Massachusetts–Amherst, San Francisco State U., U. Barcelona
U. Massachusetts–Amherst, Pennsylvania State U., Carnegie Mellon U., U. California–
Berkeley, Duke U., North Carolina State U., Harvard U.
U. California–Berkeley, U. Washington, Stanford U., MSRI
MSRI, U. California–Berkeley
Professional service
2015 – 2018
2014 – 2017
2012 – 2013
2009 – 2011
AMS Short Course Subcommittee
AMS Mathematics Research Communities Advisory Board
Chair, SIAM Activity Group in Algebraic Geometry.
Secretary, SIAM Activity Group in Algebraic Geometry.
Organizing activities for conferences, meetings, etc.
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Feb.
2014
Oct.
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May
2013
Sep.
2013
Aug.
2012
Jul.
2012
Jun.
2012
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2011
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2011
Sep.
2011
Jan.
2010
Oct.
2010
Jun.
2009
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2008 – 2009
2007
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2006
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2005
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Organizing Committee Member, Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics, Raleigh,
NC.
Organizing Committee Member, Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics, High Point
University.
Organizing Committee Member, Algebraic Statistics at the Illinois Institute of
Technology, Chicago, IL.
with Michael Singer, Carla Savage, Local Organizer for Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics, Raleigh, NC.
with Nicolette Meshkat, Organizer, Minisymposium on Identifiability problems in
biology and statistics, SIAM Conference on Applications of Algebraic Gometry,
Fort Collins, CO.
Organizer, Minisymposium on Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods in Biology,
SIAM Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
Organizing Committee Member, Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies, at Penn
State University.
Organizer, MAA special session on Algebraic Statistics, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, MA.
Chair, Local Organizing Committee, SIAM Conference on Applications of Algebraic Geometry, NCSU.
with Hoda Bidkhori and Alex Fink, organized Special Session on Algebraic and
Geometric Aspects of Matroid Theory, AMS Southeastern Section Meeting, WinstonSalem, NC.
Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on Algebraic Geometry in the Sciences, CMA, Oslo, Norway.
Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on Parameter Identification in Graphical Models, AIM, Palo Alto, CA.
Organizer, Minisymposium on Discrete Mathematical Biology, SIAM Discrete
Mathematics Meeting, Austin, TX.
with Carla Savage, organized Special Session on Applications of Algebraic and
Geometric Combinatorics, AMS Southeastern Section Meeting, Raleigh, NC.
Organizing Committee Member, SAMSI yearlong program on Algebraic Methods
in Systems Biology and Statistics. Organizing yearlong activities for the program
including Opening and Closing workshop, 3 midterm workshops, and a course for
graduate students.
with Serkan Hoşten and Lior Pachter organized IMA midprogram workshop on
Applications in Biology, Dynamics, and Statistics.
with Elizabeth Allman organized an AMS special session on Algebraic Statistics:
Theory and Practice. Joint Mathematics Meeting, San Antonio, TX
with Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, and Jim Carlsson, organized a workshop
Algebraic Statistics and Computational Biology. Clay Mathematics Institute,
Cambridge, MA
Editorial activities
2016–
2010–
2006
Editorial Board, SIAM Journal on Applications of Algebra and Geometry
Editorial Board, Journal of Algebra, Section on Computational Algebra
Guest Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica, for Theme Topic on Algebraic Statistics
and Computational Biology
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Referee and review activities
Journals refereed
Advances in Applied Mathematics
Advances in Geometry
Algorithms for Molecular Biology
Annals of Combinatorics
Annals of Statistics
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics
Bernoulli
Discrete Mathematics
European Journal of Combinatorics
Experimental Mathematics
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Journal of Algebra
Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics
Journal of Algebraic Statistics
Journal of Combinatorial Theory: Series A
Journal of Commutative Algebra
Journal of the European Mathematical Society
Journal of Mathematical Biology
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Journal of Symbolic Computation
Journal of Theoretical Biology
Linear Algebra and Applications
Mathematical Research Letters
Mathematics of Computation
Math Reviews
Michigan Mathematical Journal
Proceedings of the AMS
Psychometrika
Selecta Mathematica
SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics
SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis
Statistics and Probability Letters
Transactions of the AMS
Conferences refereed
2010
Program Committee Member, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS),
Sardinia, Italy.
2009
Program Committee Member, Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence (UAI), McGill
University, Montreal, Canada.
2008
Program Committee Member, Algebraic Biology 2008, RISC, Linz, Austria.
Granting agencies refereed
2006 –
NSF, Five panels and other ad hoc refereeing
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Ad hoc referee: NSA, Israeli, Belgian, Austrian, Polish, Dutch, Czech, English
science foundations.
Teaching activities
Courses taught
2016
2015
2015
2014
Spring
Fall
Spring
Fall
2014
2014
2013
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2011
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Fall
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2004 Spring
2001 Spring
2000 Fall
1999 – 2000
Introduction to Probability (Math 421)
Applications of Algebra (Math 437)
Algebraic Statistics (Math 591)
(with Jeff Thorne, Scott Schmidler, and Jotun Hein) Statistical and Mathematical
Challenges in Molecular Evolution (Math 810)
Algebraic Geometry (Math 526)
Combinatorics II (Math 724)
Combinatorics I (Math 524)
Introduction to Combinatorics (Math 416/ CS 416)
Discrete Mathematical Biology (Math 591)
Algebraic Geometry (Math 591)
Algebraic Geometry (Math 591)
Abstract Algebra II (Math 721)
Abstract Algebra I (Math 521)
(with R. Laubenbacher) Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics
(Math 810E) SAMSI special topics course
Calculus for Business Majors (Math 16B) TA, UC Berkeley
Precalculus (Math 109) SFSU
Algebra (Math 59) SFSU
Calculus for Scientists and Engineers (Math 1B) TA, UC Berkeley
Ph.D. students advised
2015 –
2015 –
2014 –
2013 – 2016
2011 – 2015
2010 – 2014
Christopher Durden
Caprice Stanley
Daniel I. Bernstein
Colby Long
Brandon Bock
Ruth Davidson (coadvised with Patricia Hersh)
Postdocs mentored
2015 – 2016
2013 – 2016
2013 – 2014
2012 – 2015
2010 – 2013
2010 – 2012
2008 – 2010
Patrik Norén
Jing Xi
Elizabeth Gross
Nicolette Meshkat
Alex Fink
Hoda Bidkhori
Megan Owen
Seminars organized
2014 – Present First Year Research Seminar
2013 – Present Phylogenetics, Evolutionary Biology, etc. Seminar (with E. Stone, J. Thorne)
2011 – 2012 Reading Seminar on Tensors/ Symbolic Computation Seminar (with A. Szanto)
2010 Spring Reading Seminar on Tropical Geometry