Talks

Presentations and workshops

“The persistent structure of political ideology from referendum data.” Conference on Computational Social Science, Philadelphia, PA, July 2024. Reviewed
“The topology of mixture models.” Symposium on Data Science and Statistics, Richmond, VA, June 2024. Reviewed
“Inferring the shape of Maine’s political ideology with referendum data.” Colby–Bates–Bowdoin Mathematics Meeting, Waterville, ME, October 2023. Invited
“Inferring the structure of political ideology with a Bayesian model of referendum data.” Political and Computational Social Science, Cambridge, MA, June 2022. Contributed
“Bayesian mixtures of mixture for metagenomic data.” Meeting of the Indian Statistical Association, Gainesville, FL, August 2018. Contributed
“All is everywhere: latent Dirichlet dispersion for ecological count data.” Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, MD, August 2017. Contributed
“What’s in that ecology? A latent factor Dirichlet-multinomial model for metagenomic count data.” Joint Statistical Meetings, Chicago, IL, August 2016. Contributed
Working group: Merging population genetics with epidemiology. Genetic Epidemiology of Malaria Workshop, June 2015. Invited
“Regression in complex microbial ecosystems.” Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, December 2014. Invited
“A Bayesian approach to inferring community structure and evolutionary history from whole-genome metagenomic data.” Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2014. Invited
“The lineage model: A Bayesian approach to inferring ecology and evolution.” Newton Institute Workshop on Metagenomics, March 2014. Invited
“Measurably evolving ecologies: statistical methods for metagenomic sequence data.” Colby–Bates–Bowdoin Seminar, November 2013. Invited
“The lineage model: inferring ecoevolutionary dynamics from metagenomic data.” Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2013. Contributed
“Testing pipelines with crosses.” Genetic Epidemiology of Malaria Conference, June 2012. Invited
“Towards a reconstruction of the historical migration patterns of P. falciparum through its organelles.” International Biogeography Society Conference, September 2011. Contributed
“Simultaneously estimating microbial ecology and evolution.” Bristol Complexity Seminar, March 2010. Invited
“The lineage model for microbial community composition.” Oxford Mathematical Biology Seminar, November 2009. Invited
“The lineage model for microbial community composition.” Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2009. Contributed
“A more general model of the evolution of influenza subtypes.” Stochastic Processes and their Applications, August 2009. Contributed
“A Bayesian model for metagenomic population structure.” Gordon Research Conference in Applied Microbiology, July 2009. Contributed
“Phylogenetics and GMRFs to model conformational changes.” University of Bath, June 2009. Invited
“Robust counting for unusual distances.” European Bioinformatics Institute, October 2008. Invited
“Modeling distance, rates and non-neutrality in viral systems.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Influenza Division, April 2008. Invited
“Counting codon changes carefully: Markov-chain-induced counting processes for robust distance estimation.” Joint Statistical Meetings, July 2007. Contributed
“Watching change in influenza A viruses.” Peking University, Center for Theoretical Biology, July 2006. Invited
“Characterizing the rate of nucleotide substitution along branches in influenza phylogenies.” DIMACS Workshop on Rapidly Evolving Pathogens, July 2006. Contributed
“Breaking the molecular clock (assumption).” Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, May 2006. Contributed
“Cognitive aspects of the grammar of Norwegian Sign Language.” University of Bergen, Department of Linguistics, March 2003. Invited

Other

Co-organizer, Statworks conference on network inference, while at the University of Bristol.
Fulbright project (2002–2003, Bergen, Norway): developed a dictionary of mathematics terms for Norwegian Sign Language.