Events

2015

• Knots and DNA
  Selected Event Presenter 
  MSRI National Math Festival
  April 18, 2015
  Smithsonian’s Ripley Center, WA
   
• Scientific Symposium: Computational Topology and Topological Data Analysis
  Organizing Committee with D. Karp, R. Wilson
  SACNAS
  October 2015
  Baltimore, MD
   
• BaMBA X: Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area Conference Organizing Committee with J. Arsuaga, B. Cayco, S. Khuri, M. Levitt, B. Sturmfels 
  October 2015
  San Jose State University,  San Jose
   
• Mathematical Biology Seminar
  Organizer
  Fall Academic Quarter 2015
  UC Davis

2013

• Low-dimensional topology: introduction and open problems
  Session organizer with Dagan Karp
  SACNAS
  October 4, 2013
  San Antonio, TX
   
• Colloquium
  MSRI-UP
  July 2013
  MSRI, Berkeley
• Keynote Address
  Sonia Kovalevsky Math Day
  April 20, 2013
  University of Texas at Austin

• Biology Colloquium
  April 11, 2013
  San Francisco State University

• Deep Dive into Mentoring
  Organized by the Berkeley Science Network, UC Berkeley College of Arts and Sciences
  March 15-16, 2013
  Monterey, CA

2012

• Mini-course
  School on Knot Theory and 3-manifolds
  December 17-20, 2012
  CIMAT, Mexico

• Colloquium
  Mathematics Department
  ​November 8, 2012
  UC Berkeley

• BaMBA 8
  Co-organizer
  November 3, 2013
  UC Berkeley

• Keynote Lecture
  Modern Math Workshop
  October 10-11, 2012
  Seattle, WA

• Topological aspects of DNA function and protein folding
  Newton Institute
  September 3-7, 2012
  Cambridge, UK

• Workshop on DNA reactions or DNA Chromosome Dynamics
  September 2013
  Woodshole, MA

• Plenary Talk  [link to the slides]
  SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences (SIAM-LS 2012)
  August 7-10, 2012
  San Diego, CA

• Special Session on Knotting in Linear and Ring Polymer Models(#1078)
  ​Organizers: Tetsuo Deguchi, Ken Millett, Eric Rawdon, Mariel Vazquez
  AMS Spring Western Sectional Meeting
  March 3-4, 2012
  Honolulu, Hawaii

• Connections for Women: Discrete Lattice Models in Mathematics, Physics, and Computing
  MSRI Special Program on Random Spatial Processes
  January 12-13, 2012
  MSRI, Berkeley, CA

2011

• Convexity, Topology, Combinatorics, and Beyond  
  Workshop in the honor of Luis Montejano
  October 3-7, 2011
  Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
  [Poster pdf]

• DNA Unknotting and Unlinking 
  Mathematical Biology Seminar
  UC Davis Mathematics Department
  October 10, 2011

• NIMBioS’s third Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Biology and Mathematics - Keynote Speaker [CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS]
  October 21-22, 2011
  University of Tennessee Conference Center, Knoxville, Tennessee

• Modern Math Workshop - Keynote Speaker [CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS]
  SACNAS National Conference
  2011: Empowering Innovation and Synergy Through Diversity
  October 27-30, 2011
  San Jose, California 

• BaMBA 7: Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area
  November 19, 2011
  UCSF  (poster)
  San Francisco, CA

• Workshop on Numerical Knots: Models and Simulations
  8-9 June, 2011 
  Mathematical Research Centre (CRM)  “Ennio De Giorgi”
  Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa, Italy
   
• DNA Knots
  15-16 June, 2011 
  Mathematical Research Centre (CRM)  “Ennio De Giorgi”
  Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa, Italy
   
• In conjunction with The Intensive Research Period
  May – July 2011
  KNOTS & APPLICATIONS
   
• Special Session on Topological Problems in Molecular Biology
  AMS Spring Central Sectional meeting
  Organizers: Isabel Darcy, Stephen Levene, Jon Simon
  March 16-20th, 2011
  Iowa City, IA
   
• Special Session on Measures of Entanglement of Macromolecules and Their Applications (#57A)
  Joint Mathematics Meetings
  ​Organizers: Isabel Darcy, Ken Millett, Eric Rawdon, Mariel Vazquez
  January 9, 2011
  New Orleans, LA

2010

• BaMBA 6: Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area
  November 20, 2010
  Clark Center, Stanford University
   
• Blackwell-Tapia Conference
  Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI)
  November 5-6, 2010
  MBI, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
   
• SIAM mini-symposium on New Trends in Mathematical Biology
  Joint Mathematics Meetings
  Organizers: Javier Arsuaga and Mariel Vazquez
  January 16, 2010
  Moscone Center, San Francisco
   
• Fong Symposium
  SFSU Math Department
  April 2010
  Speaker: Professor Gunnar Carlsson