Slides

Slides from talks based on specific papers are generally linked to from my papers page.

• Lectures from the Segunda Escuela Argentina de Matematica y Biologia
  • Statistics
  • Combinatorics
  • Conjunctive Bayesian networks
  • Problems
• Three lectures from the Primera Escuela Argentina de Matematica y Biologia
  Phylogenetic algebraic geometry, tree construction with SVD, and ultra-conserved elements.

  • Lecture 1
  • Lecture 2
  • Lecture 3
• Discrete stochastic spatial models
  Based on work I did at the Park City Mathematics Institute, summer 2005.

  • pdf
• Schur modules and Segre varieties
  Final project for Math 249, fall 2004.

  • ps
  • pdf
• Simulation studies of algebraic invariants for phylogeny
  Final project for Public Health 143, Introduction to Statistical Methods in Computational and Genomic Biology

  • ps
  • pdf
  • slides
• Homogeneous phylogenetic models: Invariants and parametric inference
  Poster from RECOMB 2004.

  • pdf
• Systems of polynomial equations in biology
  a brief introduction

  • ps
• Group representations and mixing times
  with Li-Chung Chen. Final project for CS294-2, Markov Chain Monte Carlo

  • pdf
  • ps