Upcoming Conferences, Workshops, Talks, and Other Activities:

• SIAM Activity Group in Algebraic Geometry
• MSRI Program on Commutative Algebra, Berkeley, CA, August, 2012 - May 2013.
• Invited Address, Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry (MEGA), Frankfurt, Germany, June 3-7, 2013.
• SIAM Meeting on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Fort Collins, CO, August 1-4, 2013.
• Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics, NCSU, September 21, 2013.

Past Conferences, Workshops, and Other Activities (for which I have been an organizer or primary lecturer):

• Invited Tutorial, International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC), Grenoble, France, July 22-25, 2012.
• Minisymposium on Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods in Biology, SIAM Annual Meeting, July 9-13, 2012.
• Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies at Penn State, State College, PA, June 9-15, 2012.
• Algebraic Methods in Evolutionary and Systems Biology, MBI, Columbus, OH, May 7-11, 2012.
• Bay Area Discrete Math Day (in honor of Bernd Sturmfels' 50th birthday), March 17, 2012.
• MAA Invited Address, Joint Mathematics Meeting, Boston, MA, January 4-7, 2012.
• MAA Invited Paper Session on Algebraic Statistics, Boston, MA, January 4-7, 2012.
• SIAM Meeting on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Raleigh, NC, October 6-9, 2011.
• Invited Address, AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Wake Forest University, NC, September 24-25, 2011.
• Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Matroids, AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Wake Forest University, NC, September 24-25, 2011.
• Algebraic Geometry in the Sciences, CMA, Oslo, Norway, January 10-14, 2011.
• Parameter Identification in Graphical Models, AIM, Palo Alto, CA, October 4-8, 2010.
• Minisymposium on Discrete Mathematical Biology SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Austin, TX, June 14-17, 2010
• Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics,  SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2008-9.
• Algebraic Methods Transition Workshop, SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC, June 18-20, 2009.
• Applications of Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics,  AMS Special Session, Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Raleigh, NC, April 4-5, 2009.
• Algebraic Statistical Models, SAMSI Mid-program workshop, Research Triangle Park, NC, Jan. 15-17, 2009.
• Opening Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics,  SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC,  Sep. 14-17, 2008.
• Oberwolfach Seminar on Algebraic Statistics,  Oberwolfach, Germany, May 11-17, 2008.
• Algebraic Statistics and Computational Biology.  "Theme Topic" in Statistica Sinica.
• Applicable Algebraic Geometry.  Texas A&M, College Station, Texas, July 23 - August 10, 2007.
• Algebraic Statistics Short Course.  DIAMANT/EIDMA,  Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 25-29, 2007.
• Applications of Algebraic Geometry.  Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, Minneapolis, MN, September 2006 - July 2007.
• Applications in Biology, Dynamics, and Statistics.  Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, Minneapolis, MN, March 5-9, 2007.
• Algebraic Statistics Mini-course.  Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina,  July 3 - July 7, 2006.
• Algebraic Statistics, Tropical Geometry, and Computational Biology.  Summer School.  Sophus Lie Conference Center, Nordfjordeid, Norway, June 17-21, 2006.
• Algebraic Statistics Short Course.   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,  May 30 - June 2, 2006.
• Algebraic Statistics:  Theory and Practice.  AMS Special Session, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, TX, January 12-13, 2006.
• Algebraic Statistics and Computational Biology.  Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge, MA, November 12-14, 2005.