Teaching

Information about my courses and teaching materials can be found on the university blackboard pages.

MAS1341: Introduction to probability.

Research Interests

I am interested in mathematical and statistical aspects of molecular evolution. My research focusses on the development of statistical models for constructing phylogenetic trees and methods for assessing uncertainty / confidence in phylogenetic estimates. I am also interested in geometrical problems in statistics, particularly inference problems involving non-euclidean spaces of parameters.

Resources related to my research:

• An applet for comparing pairs of alternative phylogenies.
• An applet for comparing multiple alternative phylogenies. You can watch a streamed version of a talk I gave in December 2007 about this work.
• Recent work on principal components analysis in the space of phylogenetic trees.
• An applet for viewing tree-space geodesics.

Other Stuff

My climbing page.

My murky past: differential geometry.