Presentations & Posters

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Diffusion on Complex Networks and what it can tell us about Epidemiology and Wikipedia

September 20, 2018

Presentation, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ

This was a presentation given to the current Ph.D and Masters students at Rutgers University as part of a series of talks titled SSPAR (Student Seminars in Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers.) What can be determined about a complex landscape or network by moving through it in the most unintelligent way? This talk covered an answer to this question by presenting a formalism which combines Bayes’ theorem with random walk theory with applications given in the worlds of computer science and epidemiology.

Fundamental Sources of Codon Bias

March 09, 2018

Presentation, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California

This presentation covered a biophysical / population genetics model designed for the careful investigation of the codon usage bias. The model presented incorporates modern theories on the origins of the codon bias in a bare-minimum-for-accurate-prediction approach which develops a heirarchy of model complexities until the bias is captured. A poster on the same topic can be found here

Bayesian Inference of Global Statistics on Complex Networks using Random Walks

March 08, 2018

Poster, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA

Complex networks can be found throughout the physical sciences. This poster covers a new formalism for acquiring the global properties of complex networks via random walk sampling. This methodology only requires a very small portion of the full network to be sampled, and is general to all weighted, undirected networks. More detail and application of this topic can be found here.

Fundamentals of Codon Bias

July 27, 2017

Poster, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

This poster presentation covered a biophysical / population genetics model designed for the careful investigation of the codon usage bias.

Principle Causes of Codon Bias: Gene Evolution Modeled as a First Passage Process

February 23, 2017

Presentation, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ

This was a presentation given to the current Ph.D and Masters students at Rutgers University as part of a series of talks titled SSPAR (Student Seminars in Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers.) The presentation covered the early stages of a biophysical / population genetics model designed for the careful investigation of the codon usage bias.