Application of discrete modeling and analysis techniques to various areas of computational biology. I am especially interested in computational population biology, both human (epidemiology) and animal.
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Projects and Publications:

• Berger-Wolf, T.Y., Bhaskar DasGupta, Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse and Mary V. Ashley,
  "Combinatorial Reconstruction of Sibling Relationships"
  Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Computational Biology and Genome Informatics (CBGI 05), Utah, July 21 - 26, 2005, pp. 1252-1255
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• Berger-Wolf, T.Y., William E. Hart, and Jared Saia,
  "Discrete Sensor Placement Problems in Distribution Networks"
  Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 42 (13): 1385-1396 Dec 2005
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• Berger-Wolf, T.Y.
  "Online Consensus and Agreement of Phylogenetic Trees"
  4th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI2004), Bergen, Norway, September 14 - 17, 2004
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• Berger-Wolf, T.Y. and E. M. Reingold,
  "Index assignment for multichannel communication under failure"
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 48(10), Oct 2002, 2656-2668
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• Berger-Wolf, T.Y. and E. M. Reingold,
  "Optimal multichannel communication under failure", Proceedings, SODA 99.
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• Hopkins, L.D., Johnston, D.M., Berger-Wolf, T.Y., Ellis, C., Henne, L.,
  Assessing the Effects of Ecosystem Disturbance on Biodiversity in the Arid and Semi-arid Environments of the American Southwest,
  Design Report for a Geographical Modeling System, in partial fulfillment of contract #DACA88-95-C0019, 1997, UIUC.

• Invited book review of "Bioconsensus" (DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 61) edited by M. F. Janowitz, F.-J. Lapointe, F. R. McMorris, B. Mirkin, and F. S. Roberts
  Journal of Systematic Biology, 53(3), June 2004, 515 - 517

• A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks
  DIMACS Technical Report 2005-28, July 2005
  with Jared Saia

• Critical Groups in Dynamic Social Networks
  DIMACS Technical Report 2005-26, July 2005
  with Jared Saia
  Submitted.
  

• Controlled Breeding Problem
  Technical Report TR-CS-2003-30, University of New Mexico
  with Jared Saia, Cris Moore, and Alex Russell
  Accepted to Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics, June 2004. Submitted.

• An Experimental Evaluation of Phylogenetic Consensus Methods
  Technical Report TR-CS-2003-19, University of New Mexico
  with Tiffani Williams, Bernard Moret, and Tandy Warnow

• Properties of Compatibility and Consensus Sets of Phylogenetic Trees
  with Tandy Warnow
  Submitted.

• The Relationship Between Maximum Parsimony Scores and Phylogenetic Tree Topologies
  Technical Report TR-CS-2004-04, Univeristy of New Mexico
  with Tiffani Williams, Bernard Moret, Usman Roshan, and Tandy Warnow