Publications and Preprints -- Seth Sullivant

Books

  1. Lectures on Algebraic Statistics (with Mathias Drton and Bernd Sturmfels), Oberwolfach Seminar Series 39, Birkhauser, 2009
  2. Emerging Applications of Algebraic Geometry (edited with Mihai Putinar), IMA Series 149, Springer, 2008

Papers in Preparation

  1. Positivity for Gaussian graphical models (with Jan Draisma and Kelli Talaska)
  2. Containments between phylogenetic mixture models (with Elizabeth Allman and John Rhodes)
  3. Polyhedral combinatorics of UPGMA cones (with Ruth Davidson)

Submitted Papers

  1. Positive margins and primary decomposition. (with Thomas Kahle and Johannes Rauh) 1201.2591
  2. Multigraded commutative algebra of graph decompositions. (with Alexander Engström and Thomas Kahle) 1102.2601

Papers in Press

  1. The disentangling number for phylogenetic mixtures. To appear in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 1107.2880
  2. Identifiability of large phylogenetic mixture models. (with John Rhodes). To appear in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 1011.4134

Papers in Print

  1. Finite Gröbner bases in infinite dimensional polynomial rings and applications. (with Christopher Hillar). Advances in Mathematics 221 (2012) 1-25 0908.1777
  2. Geodesics in CAT(0) cubical complexes. (with Federico Ardila and Megan Owen). Advances in Applied Mathematics 48 (2012) 142-163 1101.2428
  3. Eulerian-Catalan numbers. (with Hoda Bidkhori). Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 18 no.1 (2011) #P187 1101.1108
  4. Global identifiability of linear structural equation models (with Mathias Drton and Rina Foygel), Annals of Statistics 39 (2011):865-886. 1003.1146
  5. Identifiability of two-tree mixtures for group-based models. (with Elizabeth Allman, Sonja Petrovic, and John Rhodes), IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 8 no. 3 (2011) 710-722. 0909.1854   Supplementary Materials
  6. Normal binary graph models. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Special Issue: Algebraic Methods in Computational Statistics, 64 no.4 (2010) 717-726 0906.1784
  7. Trek separation for Gaussian graphical models. (with Kelli Talaska and Jan Draisma), Annals of Statistics 38 no.3 (2010) 1665-1685 0812.1938
  8. Markov models for accumulating mutations.  (with Niko Beerenwinkel), Biometrika 96 no. 3 (2009) 645-661 0709.2646
  9. Prolongations and computational algebra.  (with Jessica Sidman), Canadian Journal of Mathematics 61 no. 4 (2009) 930-949 math.AC/0611696
  10. A Gröbner basis for the secant ideal of the second hypersimplex.  Journal of Commutative Algebra 1 no.2 (2009) 0804.2897
  11. Gaussian conditional independence relations have no finite complete characterization.  Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 213 (2009) 1502-1506 (special issue on Theoretical and Practical Effectivity of Gröbner Bases)  0704.2847
  12. Toric geometry of cuts and splits. (with Bernd Sturmfels) Michigan Mathematical Journal 57 (2008) 689-709 (special issue in honor of Mel Hochster) math.AC/0606683
  13. Algebraic geometry of Gaussian Bayesian networks. Adv. in Appl. Math. 40 (2008), no. 4, 482--513. 0704.0918
  14. Combinatorial symbolic powers. J. Algebra 319 (2008), no. 1, 115--142. math.AC/0608542
  15. Algebraic statistical models. (with Mathias Drton) Statist. Sinica 17 (2007), no. 4, 1273--1297.  math.ST/0703609
  16. Toric fiber products. J. Algebra 316 (2007), no. 2, 560--577. math.AC/0602052
  17. Algebraic factor analysis:  tetrads, pentads, and beyond.  (with Mathias Drton and Bernd Sturmfels),  Probability Theory and Related Fields  138 (2007), no. 3-4, 463--493.  math.ST/0509390
  18. A finiteness theorem for Markov bases of hierarchical models.   (with Serkan Hosten)   J. Combin. Theory Ser. A  114  (2007),  no. 2, 311--321.  math.CO/0401379
  19. Combinatorial secant varieties.  (with Bernd Sturmfels) Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 2 (2006) 285-309  (Special issue in honor of Robert Macpherson) math.AC/0506223
  20. Compressed polytopes and statistical disclosure limitation.  Tohoku Math. J. (2)  58  (2006),  no. 3, 433--445. math.CO/0412535
  21. Sequential importance sampling for multiway tables.  (with Yuguo Chen and Ian Dinwoodie), Annals of Statistics (2006) 34 No. 1, 523-545  math.ST/0605615
  22. Polyhedral conditions for the nonexistence of the MLE for hierarchical log-linear models. (with Nicholas Eriksson, Stephen E. Fienberg, and Alessandro Rinaldo),  Journal of Symbolic Computation, Special issue on Computational Algebraic Statistics 41 (2006)  222-233 math.CO/0405044
  23. The space of compatible full conditionals is a unimodular toric variety.   (with Aleksandra Slavkovic), Journal of Symbolic Computation, Special issue on Computational Algebraic Statistics 41 (2006) 196-209  math.AG/0405046
  24. Small contingency tables with large gaps.  SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics  18 (2005) no.4, 787-793  math.OC/0405038
  25. Toric ideals of phylogenetic invariants.  (with Bernd Sturmfels), Journal of Computational Biology 12 (2005) 204-228.   q-bio.PE/0402015
  26. Ideals of adjacent minors.  (with Serkan Hosten),  Journal of Algebra  277 (2004), 615-642   math.AC/0306318
  27. A divide-and-conquer algorithm for generating Markov bases of multi-way tables.  (with A. Dobra),  Computational Statistics  19 (2004), 347-366
  28. Markov bases of binary graph models.  (with Mike Develin), Annals of Combinatorics  7 (2003), 441-466 math.CO/0308280
  29. Gröbner bases and polyhedral geometry of reducible and cyclic models.  (with Serkan Hosten)  Journal of Combinatorial Theory: Series A 100 (2002) no. 2, 277-301

Conference Proceedings and Book Chapters

  1. Identifying causal effects with computer algebra (with Luis Garcia and Sarah Spielvogel) Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 26th Conferences, AUAI Press, 2010. 1007.3784
  2. Algebraic complexity of maximum likelihood estimation for bivariate missing data.  (with Serkan Hosten), Book chapter in the book Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Statistics, Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN-13: 9780521896191 arXiv:0709.0935.
  3. Phylogenetic algebraic geometry.  (with Nicholas Eriksson, Kristian Ranestad, and Bernd Sturmfels), in Projective Varieties with Unexpected Properties, edited by C. Ciliberto, et al.,  Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2005  math.AG/0407033
  4. Catalog of small trees.  (with Marta Casanellas and Luis David Garcia), in Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, edited by L. Pachter and B. Sturmfels, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005.
  5. The strand symmetric model.  (with Marta Casanellas), in Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, edited by L. Pachter and B. Sturmfels, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005.

Theses

  1. Toric ideals in algebraic statistics, 2005 pdf. (Ph. D. Thesis, UC Berkeley)
  2. Algebraic geometry and combinatorics of hierarchical models, 2002  PS (M.A. Thesis, San Francisco State University)

Unpublished Notes

  1. Tight closure of monomial ideals in Fermat rings.  For Math 274, Fall 2002  PS

Research has been supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation.