Conferences

I give talks and attend events on phylogenetics, combinatorics, and algorithms. Talks and poster presentations are listed under the corresponding event.

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Upcoming

• Uniting Phylogenetic Network Research Leiden, the Netherlands - June 2026

2026

• RECOMB (30th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology) Thessaloniki, Greece - May 2026
  • Talk: PaNDA: Efficient Optimization of Phylogenetic Diversity in Networks
• RECOMB-CG (23rd RECOMB International Workshop on Comparative Genomics) Thessaloniki, Greece - May 2026
• International Workshop on Probabilistic, Combinatorial, and Algorithmic Phylogenetics Taipei, Taiwan - March 2026
  • Talk: PhyloZoo: A Python Package for Analyzing and Exploring Phylogenetic Networks

2025

• Dutch Day on Optimization Tilburg, the Netherlands - November 2025
  • Talk: Squirrel: Reconstructing semi‐directed phylogenetic level‐1 networks from four‐leaved networks or sequence alignments

• Novel Mathematical Paradigm for Phylogenomics online participant - August 2025 (physical conference in Banff, Canada)

• New Directions in Experimental Mathematics: At the Interface of Molecular Biology, Combinatorics, Discrete Geometry and Algebra Bielefeld, Germany - June 2025

• MCEB (Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology)
  Granada, Spain - May 2025
  • Talk: Squirrel: Reconstructing semi‐directed phylogenetic level‐1 networks from four‐leaved networks or sequence alignments
• Dutch Days of Combinatorics Delft, the Netherlands - March 2025
  • Lightning Talk: Reconstructing phylogenetic networks

2024

• Algorithmic Advances and Implementation Challenges: Developing Practical Tools for Phylogenetic Inference Providence, RI, USA - November 2024
  • Poster presentation: Squirrel: Reconstructing semi‐directed phylogenetic level‐1 networks from four‐leaved networks or sequence alignments
• From Phylogenetics to Phylogenomics: Mathematical and Statistical Challenges in the Era of Big Data Providence, RI, USA - October 2024
  • Poster presentation: Reconstructing semi-directed level-1 networks using few quarnets
• Current Methods and Open Problems in Mathematical and Statistical Phylogenetics Providence, RI, USA - September 2024
  • Poster presentation: Reconstructing semi-directed level-1 networks using few quarnets
• Theory, Methods, and Applications of Quantitative Phylogenomics Providence, RI, USA - September-November 2024
  • Paper spotlight talk: Squirrel: a TSP-based algorithm to reconstruct semi-directed level-1 networks from quarnets
  • Graduate/Post-doc seminar talk: Computing the Scanwidth of Phylogenetic Networks
• 49th Conference on the Mathematics of Operations Research (LNMB) Soesterberg, the Netherlands - January 2024

2023

• Seminar series in Discrete Mathematics and Optimization Delft, the Netherlands — recurring seminar, 2023–present