Sonja Petrović

Formerly: Research Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago

I have moved since Fall 2011.

I am at the Statistics Department at Penn State. Here is my new webpage.

--last updated July 2011 --

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RESEARCH INTERESTS: Algebraic statistics, computational algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, biomathematics. (CV- Jun 2011)

HIGHLIGHTS
	Summer quarter statistics seminar series at the Univeristy of Chicago: June-Septermber 2011.
	A Macaulay2 workshop, coorganized with Anton Leykin, took place at the IMA, July 2011.
	A Macaulay2 interface to numerical algebraic geometry software PHCpack is now available.
	Toric geometry and applications conference, Leuven, Belgium, June 2011.
	Program on Algebraic Geometry with a view towards applications at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, spring 2011.
	PhD students advised: Elizabeth Gross.
	Special Session on Advances in Algebraic Statistics, co-organized with Ruriko Yoshida, took place in March 2010.
	2008-2009 research fellow at SAMSI, as a part of the Program on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics. Read about the program in this newsletter (see page 1).
	Member of the SIAM activity group in algebraic geometry.
IN THE NEWS
	SIAM News July/August 2007 issue: "Algebraic Geometers See Ideal Approach to Biology" mentions my joint paper (with Julia Chifman) on phylogenetic invariants. See the article here (pdf file) or search for the issue at the SIAM News website.
	Mathematics Research Communitites sponsored by the AMS: Read about the inaugural 2008 MRC program here (pdf file) or see the AMS full page description of the program here .
	I am the face of the AMS advice page for job hunters!
SELECTED LINKS
	For much more information and links, visit my RESEARCH pages from the menu on the left.
	I earned my PhD in 2008 from the University of Kentucky under the direction of Uwe Nagel. Some of my thoughts about the graduate school experience can be found at the UK Math Alumni Spotlight page.