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Distinguished ProfessorMike Steel

Distinguished Professor

Mathematics and Statistics

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  • Distinguished Professor
    Mathematics and Statistics
  • +6433692153 (Work)
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SERVICE & LEADERSHIP

  • EDITORIAL
    Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
    1 Jan 2010
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Panelist for Royal Society of NZ (New Fellows panels 2009,2010); Hatherton Award (2009--2011).
    1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2011
    Panelist for Royal Society of NZ (New Fellows panels 2009, 2010); Hatherton Award (2009--2011).
  • EDITORIAL
    Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online
    1 Jan 2007
  • EDITORIAL
    IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
    1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2010
  • EDITORIAL
    Algorithms in Molecular Biology
    1 Jan 2004
  • EDITORIAL
    Systematic Biology
    1 Jan 2003 - 31 Dec 2006
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    1 Jan 2003 - 31 Dec 2003
    Chair of the NZ Mathematical Society committee for the annual Award for Mathematical Research
  • EDITORIAL
    Computational Biology
    1 Jan 2001
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Chair of the committee set up to award the NZ Mathematical Society's annual award for Mathematical Research (2002-03)
    1 Jan 1997 - 31 Dec 2002
    Chair of the committee set up to award the NZ Mathematical Society's annual award for Mathematical Research (2002-03)
  • EDITORIAL
    Journal of Computational Biology
    1 Jan 1997 - 1 Jan 2002
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Member of the New Zealand Mathematical Research Institute (NZMRI)
    1 Jan 1997 - 31 Dec 2002
    Member of the New Zealand Mathematical Research Institute (NZMRI)
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    1 Jan 1997 - 31 Dec 2002
    Programme Committe member for bioinformatic conferences such as RECOMB (1999)
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    1 Jan 1997 - 31 Dec 2002
    Program Committe member ISAAC01 (2001) International Computer Science conference
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    1 Jan 1997 - 31 Dec 2002
    Program Committee member RECOMB (Japan, 1999)
  • EDITORIAL
    Journal of Computational Biology
  • OFFICE HELD
    Program associate (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
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  • EDITORIAL
    Systematic Biology
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Recent invited presentations: 2000 to 03. Institut Henri Poincare Paris. Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny. Keynote speaker. 2003. Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. Invited to speak at the int'l conference on Fixed Parameter Algorithms. 2003.
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    DIMACS, Mathematical and Epidemilogy (conference to launch a 5 year programme) keynote speaker. 2002. Uppsala Uni. Sweden, invited talk to biology dept. 2002. Berkeley Uni, USA invited seminar in computer science dept. 2002
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Auckland Uni. NZ, invited speaker for monthly mathematics colloquium. 2002. Bielefeld Uni. Germany, invited speaker at a phylogeny workshop. 2002. Uni. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, invited speaker at 'Rocks and Clocks' conf. 2002
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Oberwolfach, Germany. Theoretical & mathematical biology. Invited participant (2 talks). 2001. SCOPH, Centre for Mathematical Research, Uni. of Montreal, Canada. Keynote Speaker. 2001. Phylogeny Workshop, Sundsvall, Sweden, Invited Speaker. 2001
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium (Palmerston North) Invited Speaker. 2001. DOOM'01 (International phylogeny conference/workshop) Invited speaker. 2001
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    JOBIM (Computational Biology conference), Montpellier, France. Keynote speaker, 2000.
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    In 2008 I was an invited speaker at the following conferences and venues: (i) 4ICC conference, Keynote speaker, Auckland, December (ii) Technical University, Munich, June (iii) Tuebingen University, Germany, June (iv) University of Lausanne, Switzerland, June (v) Bielefeled University, Germany (vi) Sante Fe Institute, Phylogenetics workshop, Keynote speaker, May (vii) UC Berkeley (Statistics), Neyman Seminar, May (viii) UoC Mathematics seminar, April (ix) Annual phylogenetics meeting NZ, February
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    In 2007 I gave invited talks at: (i) Ecology Centre, Brisbane University, Australia, August (ii) Herriot-Watt University, Statistics department, UK, October (iii) Leeds University, School of Mathematics colloquium, UK, November (iv) Oxford University, Combinatorics group, UK, November (v) Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, UK (several talks, Sept-Dec) (vi) Evolution meeting, Special symposium on phylogenetic diversity, NZ, June