Skiena's Talks

• Designing Viral Vaccines, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), November 14, 2015 (video presentation)
• Optimizing Restriction Site Placement for Synthetic Genomes
• Sequence Assembly for Short Paired-Reads
• Exploiting Redundancy in the Genetic Code
• Combinatorial Dominance and Heuristic Search
• Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling To Win -- audio available.
• Programming Contests, Algorithms, and the Real World -- I gave this talk as the featured presenter at the TopCoder Collegiate Challenge Finals, March 10-11, 2005, at the Marriott hotel in Santa Clara, CA. Watch/listen to my presentation in four parts: P art 1, Part 2, P art 3, and P art 4. Also see my reactions to the event.
• Combinatorics and Graph Theory with Mathematica
• Deconvolving Sequence Variation in Mixed DNA Populations (Andy Wildenburg's slides)
• Sorting with Weighted Reversals (Ron Pinter's slides)
• Microarray Synthesis through Multiple-Use PCR Primer Design (Rohan Fernandes' slides)
• Sequence Assembly for Single Molecule Methods (Alexey Smirnov's slides)
• Lydia: Knowledge Extraction from Curated Text Sources; see also demo at www.textmap.com.
• News and Blog Analysis with Lydia; see also demo at www.textmap.com. Also in pdf.
• Improving Usability Through Password-Corrective Hashing (slides by Andrew Mehler)
• Spatial Analysis of News Sources (slides by Andrew Mehler)