Talks

2015

January 12, 2015. IPAM (UCLA).
March 2, 2015. Genome 10K conference.
May 13, 2015. Duke University.
May 18, 2015. University of Michigan.
May 20, 2015. Great Lakes Bioinformatics Plenary Talk.
July 11, 2015. SMBE Plenary Talk.
September 14, 2015. Duke University, "New methods for estimating species trees from genome-scale data"
September 18, 2015. University of Maryland. "Ultra-large multiple sequence alignment"
October 3, 2015. AMS Sectional, Loyola University. "New methods for estimating species trees from genome-scale data"
October 16, 2015. Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University. (PPTX) (PDF)
October 21, 2015. Talk to undergraduate CS students at UIUC
November 9, 2015. UCSD Distinguished Lecture, Department of Computer Science.
November 14, 2015. HHMI, Chevy Chase, MD
December 4, 2015. MIT

2016

January 4, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (Microbiome Analysis)
January 12, UC San Francisco (Patsy Babbit)
January 13, UC Berkeley (Integrative Biology)
January 15, UC Davis (Genomics Institute)
February 3, University of Washington (Combi seminar)
February 5, Information Theory and Applications, La Jolla, CA (Plenary talk) (PDF) (PPT)
February 12, 2016. Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago
February 29 to March 1, CEHG Symposium at Stanford University
March 8, PhyloPizza, Smithsonian Institute (JPG)
March 24-25, 2016. Convergence, the Future of Health, AAAS, Washington DC.
April 18-23, 2016. Co-evolution in proteins and RNA, theory and experiments, Cargese, Corsica
May 9-13, Molecules as documents of evolutionary history: 50 years after Roscoff (Brittany), France
May 19, 2016. UCSD Bioinformatics seminar
May 23-25, 2016. MIT conference on historical linguistics (PDF) (PPTX)
June 6-10, SIAM Conference Discrete Math, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
June 13-15, 2016. Blue Waters Symposium, Oregon.
June 16, 2016. Austin, Texas Phylogenomics Symposium, Advances in Multiple Sequence Alignment
June 21, 2016. Austin, Texas. Evolution 2016 meeting. New methods for coalescent-based species tree estimation: ASTRAL, ASTRID, and statistical binning.
August 2, 2016. New methods for coalescent-based species tree estimation, University of Trento, Italy.
August 25, 2016. New methods for coalescent-based species tree estimation: ASTRAL, ASTRID, and statistical binning, University of Oxford, Statistics.
August 28-September 2, 2016. Using Ensembles of HMMs for Grand Challenges in Bioinformatics, as part of the Schloss Dagstuhl seminar Next generation sequencing - Algorithms and Software for Biomedical Applications"
September 16, 2016. CMU Computational Biology.
October 3, 2016. U Penn Math Department.
October 5, 2016. Princeton CS Department.
October 11-14, 2016. RECOMB-CG, Montreal. Scaling statistical multiple sequence alignment to large datasets.
October 17, 2016. Georgia Tech, CSE Department Distinguished Lecture. Genome-scale estimation of the Tree of Life.
October 18, 2016. Georgia Tech, Math Department IMPACT Distinguished Lecture. Genome-scale estimation of the Tree of Life.
October 18, 2016. Georgia Tech, Math Department seminar. Constrained exact optimization in phylogenetics.
October 26, 2016. Algorithm Design and Phylogenomics, an introduction to bioinformatics for bioengineering undergraduate students.
October 31, 2016. Statistics Department colloquium, University of Chicago.
November 2, 2016. Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meeting (M3), at the University of Maryland. (PPT) (PDF)
November 6, 2016. CLIMB conference, Lausanne, Switzerland. (PPTX)
November 11, 2016. NYU CS department.
November 17, 2016. NIH
November 30, 2016. Introduction to the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) group at Illinois
December 15, 2016. Chalk talk at CMU
December 16, 2016. Simons Center, NYC

2017

January 27, 2017. Plant Biology, UIUC.
February 16-17, 2017. Second Workshop on Statistical and Algorithmic Challenges in Microbiome Data Analysis at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in Cambridge, MA.
March, 2017. NSF AITF PI meeting.
April 5-6, 2017. NeLLi: From New Lineages of Life to New Functions at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). (PDF)
May 30, 2017. Keynote talk at IPDPS (IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing) Symposium, Orlando FL. (PDF)
June 2, 2017. Festschrift for Bernard Moret, UC Berkeley
June 5-6, 2017. Radcliffe. Advancing Genomic Biology through Novel Method Development. Tandy Warnow was the organizer.
July 30-Aug 9, 2017. Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structure (STAMPS).
August 23, 2017. ACM-BCB and WABI (Plenary Talk) Cambridge, MA.
August 23, 2017. Gene Tree Parsimony for Incomplete Gene Trees (with Md. S. Bayzid). WABI 2017.
October 5, 2017. Advances for Computational Genome-scale Phylogeny Estimation. Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, London UK.
November 29, 2017. Introduction to the BCB group at CS@UIUC, as part of the CS 100 course.
December 4, 2017. Overview of the Warnow Lab (for CS 591)
December 8, 2017. Title: Mathematical and computational challenges in Reconstructing Evolution, at the NIPS Workshop on Advances in Modeling and Learning Interactions from Complex Data, Long Beach CA. (PPT) (PDF)

2018

January 5, 2018. Hunter College,
January 22, 2018. Smart Agriculture Center planning meeting
March 16, 2018. UCLA. Using Ensembles of Hidden Markov Models for Grand Challenges in Bioinformatics (PPTX) (PDF)
April 4, 2018. Pathobiology, UIUC (PPTX)
April 19, 2018. Imperial College, London.
April 23, 2018, Keynote talk, RECOMB (Paris, France)
May 8, 2018. CRA-W Distinguished Lecture, UCLA Computer Science.
June 2-3, 2018, Lightning talks at Standalone SSB meeting, Ohio State University
June 4, 2018, Workshop on Species tree estimation at the Standalone SSB meeting, Ohio State University.
June 7, 2018. Foundations of Data Science at the SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Denver, Colorado.
August 1, 2018. Tutorial on SEPP and TIPP at Woods Hole
August 13, 2018. Oxford University, Department of Statistics, Theoretical and Empirical Advances in Species Tree Estimation
August 17, 2018. Montpellier, France. Phylogenomics Software Symposium Large-Scale Multiple Sequence Alignment
September 13 and 14, 2018. Advances in Phylogenomics, Genome 10K conference
October 29, 2018. Northwestern University.
November 5, 2018. UIUC, CS 591.
November 7, 2018, IPAM (at UCLA)
November 16, 2018. Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, London.

2019

February 13, 2019. University of Pennsylvania, Penn Bioinformatics Forum. Title: Using Ensembles of Hidden Markov Models for Grand Challenges in Bioinformatics (PPTX) (PDF)
February 21, 2019. Monticello Middle School. (PPT) (PDF)
March 22, 2019. University of Pennsylvania, Penn Linguistics Conference, Panel on ``Interplay between Linguistics and Biology" (HTML) (PPTX) (PDF)
April 5, 2019. Harvey Mudd College (PDF) (PPT)
April 12-14, 2019. "Trees in the Desert 2019", a workshop on ultra-large phylogenetic trees, Tucson AZ. (PPT) (PDF)
April 30, 2019. European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge UK (PPTX) (PDF)
May 13-15, NIMBIOS, Knoxville TN Scientific Collaboration Enabled by High Performance Computing (PDF) (PPT)
May 24, University of Chicago, Center for Data and Computing (html) (PDF) (PPT)
May 27, Symposium at UC Berkeley on Phylogenomics (PDF) (PPT)
May 30, 2019. The 6th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology (AlCoB 2019), Berkeley, CA.
June 3, 2019. Blue Waters Symposium.
June 17-19, Systematics Association Biennial, Bristol UK (PDF) (PPT)
June 26, 2019. Talk to REU students at UIUC about getting started on research (PDF) (PPTX)
July 21-25, 2019. ISMB, Basel Switzerland (talk given by co-student author, Erin Molloy)
July 22-Aug 1, 2019. STAMPS course at Woods Hole. (PDF) (PPT)
August 28, 2019. Genome 10K meeting, NYC.
September 10, 2019. WABI, Niagara Falls, NY (talk given by student co-author, Pranjal Vachaspati)
September 13, 2019. UCLA Statistics. (PDF) (PPT)
October 1-3, 2019. RECOMB-CG, Montpellier, France (talk given by student co-author, Vladimir Smirnov)
October 18, 2019. Statistics Grad Student Seminar, UIUC
November 4, 2019. CS 591, UIUC (PDF) (PPT)
November 7, 2019. Mathematical Biology Seminar, UIUC. (PPTX) (PDF)
November 15, 2019. UC Irvine. Undergraduate talk. Colloquium.
November 22, 2019. Plant Biology, UIUC.

2020

January 3-6, 2020, Systematics in the Swamp, Standalone meeting of the SSB, Gainesville, Florida (HTML)
February 24-26, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, Bird 10K Workshop,
February 27, 2020. Natural History Museum, London, UK. (PDF) (PPT)
March 23-24, 2020. Royal Society Big Data meeting, London, UK (conference CANCELLED due to COVID-19)
April 24, 2020. Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior colloquium, UIUC (POSTPONED due to COVID-19)
June 1-5, 2020, Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology conference, to be held at Hameau de l'Etoile in the Montpellier area, France. (WITHDREW because of COVID-19)
June 19-24, 2020. Evolution, Cleveland, Ohio (conference CANCELLED due to COVID-19)
July 12-16, 2020, ISMB, Montreal Canada
July 20-24, 2020. UCLA, Computational Genomics Summer Institute. (CANCELLED due to COVID-19)
July 27-30, 2020. Computational challenges in very large-scale genomics, Simons Center for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley (part of a longer program, July 6-August 5) (CANCELLED due to COVID-19)
September 18, 2020. Intro to Disjoint Tree Mergers (PDF) (PPTX)

2021

February 1, IHP, Paris, France, conference on Phylogeny and Inference. (PDF) (PPTX)
February 5, Systematic Discussion Group, UIUC (PPTX)
March 26, iCAN Excursions (PPTX)
June 16, Keynote talk (10:30 AM) at MCEB, Recent advances in large-scale species tree estimation under GDL and ILS (PPTX) (PDF)
June 22, SBE (Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution). (HTML). I will talk about multiple sequence alignment in the symposium on Principles, philosophy, and methodology of phylogenetic systematics. on June 22 at 9:50 AM. Talk: (PPTX)
June 30. Radcliffe Summer Fellows. I will give a talk about my research in Scientometrics (PPTX)
July 8 SMBE 2021, "Scalable divide-and-conquer strategies for phylogeny estimation", as part of the Symposium 32, "Large-scale phylogeny using novel computational and statistical tools". (PPTX)
July 14, REU talk, 12-1 PM
Aug 30-Sept 3, 2021. IMSI, Eliciting Structure in Genomics Data. (HTML) (PDF) (PPTX)
September 28-30, 2021. Genomic population structures of microbial pathogens. Royal Society, London, UK. (HTML) (PPTX)
Dec 12-17, IPAM reunion, Big Data Meets Large Scale Computing, Lake Arrowhead, CA. (PPTX)

2022

Feb 21-25. IMSI. "Challenges in Microbial Phylogenetics" (50 minute talk) (PPTX) (PDF)
April 1. "Why I love phylogenetics". (PDF) (PPTX)
April 22. "ICAN: Graph Clustering and Community Detection in Scientometrics". (PPTX)
May 16. "Building and Growing Large Phylogenies". UCLA (PPTX) (PDF)
May 19-21. Symposium for Mike Waterman's 80th birthday, at USC (Los Angeles) (HTML) (PPTX)
July 6-15 UCLA Computational Genomics Summer Institute (I will teach a tutorial on multiple sequence alignment) (PPTX) (PDF)
July 22, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Entering the Genomic Area of the Tree of Life. (PPTX)
Aug 24. CS598: Introduction to clustering (for Scientometrics). (PPTX).
Aug 31. CS598:The Resolution Limit (PPTX)
Sept 5-9, WABI as part of ALGO (Potsdam, Germany) (HTML)
Sept 16. American Museum of Natural History and Rockfeller University. (PPTX)
Sept 19. Princeton University. (PPTX)
Sept 22. BSC Life Session/Bioinfo4Women seminar (PPTX)
Nov 2. CS department research overview, presented at NCSA (PPTX)
Nov 10. EMBO. (PPTX)
Nov 18. Plant Biology seminar at UIUC. (PPTX)

2023

March 6, Introduction to BCB (PPTX)
March 27, Theory Seminar at UIUC. Phylogenetic Networks in Linguistics. (PPTX) (PDF)
March 31, iCAN talk, Community Detection and Well-Connected. (PPTX) (PDF)
April 5, IGOH talk, Phylogenetic Network Estimation in Wolbachia (PPTX) (PDF)
April 5. Future Faculty Fellows, applying for faculty positions (PPTX)
May 3, Kew Royal Botanical Gardens (PPTX) (PDF)
June 12, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore (PPTX)
July 16-21, Society of Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, Columbus OH (HTML)
July 24 to Aug 5, UCLA (CGSI)