From Fish to Polynomials

Amelia Taylor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Colorado

Abstract: The amount and types of data available to biologists is booming. In response, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists are collaborating with biologists to develop novel techniques for data analysis. In this talk I will describe a problem from fish evolutionary genetics research and one from human evolutionary genetics and discuss how polynomial ring theory can be used to suggest solutions to difficult problems.