My CV: pdf

Papers

• A. Parker, A. Dimitrov and T. Gedeon. Symmetry breaking clusters in soft clustering decoding of neural codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory: Special Issue on Molecular Biology and Neurosicence (to appear in Feb 2010): pdf

• T. Gedeon, A. Parker, C. Campion, and Z. Aldworth. "Annealing and the normalized N-cut." Pattern Recognition, 41(2):592-606. February 2008: pdf.

• C. Vogel, D. Arathorn, A. Roorda, and A. Parker. "Retinal motion estimation and image dewarping in adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy." Optics Express, vol 14, pp. 487-497. January, 2006: pdf

• C. Vogel, D. Arathorn, A. Parker, and A. Roorda, "Retinal Motion Tracking in Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy," in Adaptive Optics: Analysis and Methods/Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging/Information Photonics/Signal Recovery and Synthesis Topical Meetings on CD-ROM, Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2005), paper JTuC2.

• Albert Parker and Tomas Gedeon. "Bifurcations of a class of $S_n$-invariant constrained optimization problems", Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, 16(3):629--678, July 2004: pdf

• Albert Parker. "A Bayesian Approach to Hierarchical Model Building." Masters project in statistics, MSU-Bozeman. May 3, 2004: pdf

• Albert E. Parker, Tomas Gedeon, and Alexander Dimitrov. "Annealing and the rate distortion problem." In S. Thrun, S. Becker and K. Obermayer, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15, pages 969-976. MIT Press, 2003: pdf

• A. Dimitrov, T. Gedeon, B. Mumey, R. Snider, A. E. Parker, and J. P. Miller. Derivation of natural stimulus feature set using a data-driven model. In P. M. A. Sloot, D. Abramson, A. V. Bogdanov, J. Dongarra, A. Y. Zomaya, and Y. E. Gorbachev, editors, International Conference on Computational Science, volume 2660 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 337.345. Springer, August 2003: pdf

• Albert E. Parker. "Symmetry Breaking Bifurcations of the Information Distortion." Ph.D. Thesis. Montana State University-Bozeman. May 2003. (double spaced for one sided printing): pdf (1.6MB); (singlespaced for two sided printing): pdf (1.6MB).

• Tomas Gedeon, Albert E. Parker and Alexander G. Dimitrov. "Information Distortion and Neural Coding". Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly, volume 10, number 1, pp 33-70. Spring, 2003: pdf or ps

• A. G. Dimitrov, J.P. Miller, Z. Aldsworth, T. Gedeon and A. E. Parker. "Analysis of neural coding through quantization with an information-based distortion measure." Network: Computation in Neural Systems, vol 14, pp 151-176, February 2003: pdf

  

• A. G. Dimitrov, J.P. Miller, Z. Aldsworth, and A. Parker. "Spike pattern-based coding schemes in the cricket cercal sensory system." Neurocomputing, 44-46, 373–379, 2002: ps

• S. Kubiak, H. Lehr, R. Levy, T. Moeller, A. Parker, and E. Swim. "Modeling Control of HIV Infection through Structured Treatment Interruptions with Recommendations for Experimental Protocol." Report 5 in Pierre A. Gremaud, Zhilin Li, Ralph C. Smith, and Hien T. Tran, editors, Center for Research in Scientific Computing at North Carolina State University Technical Report, CRSC-TR01-27. November 2001: pdf or ps

• "Accelerating Gibbs sampling using matrix decompositions." Workshop on Statistical Inference and Partial Differential Equations (SIPE). New Zealand Institute of Mathematics. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. January 18, 2010

• "Ruggedness Assessment and Experimental Design in the Biofilm Laboratory." 5th American Society for Microbiology Conference on Biofilms. Standardized Biofilm Methods Workshop. Cancun, Mexico. November 15, 2009.

• "Using linear solvers to sample large Gaussians" at the Applied Math Seminar, MSU-Bozeman, October 29, 2009: pptx

• "Accelerated Gibbs sampling from multivariate normal distributions" at the Department of Mathematical Sciences Colloquim at the University of Montana, Missoula. October 19, 2009.

• "Some Statistical considerations in molecular methods" at the Biofilm Science & Technology Meeting, MSU-Bozeman, July 9, 2009: ppt.

• "Ruggedness Assessment and Experimental Design in the Biofilm Laboratory" at the Biofilm Science & Technology Meeting Workshop, MSU-Bozeman, July 6, 2009: ppt

• "Statistical thinking in antibiofilm research" with Cord and Marty at the Medical Biofilm Lab and then the Standardized Biofilm Methods Lab, Montana State University. October 22, 2008: ppt

• "CG optimizers, Lanczos Eigensolvers, and sampling" Electronics Lab Meeting. University of Otago, Dunedin. March 13, 2008.

• "Exact versus Lanczos Eigensolvers" Electronics Lab Meeting. University of Otago, Dunedin. February 28, 2008.

• "Gaussian Processes" Electronics Lab Meeting. University of Otago, Dunedin. October 5, 2007.

• "Eye Motion Estimation and Image Dewarping using a Map Seeking Circuit" Center for Adaptive Optics Spring Retreat, Image Processing Workshop. UC Santa Cruz. March 30, 2006: pdf

• "Symmetry Breaking when deciphering the neural code," Department of Mathematical Sciences Colloquim at the University of Montana, Missoula. September 12, 2005: ppt

• "Retinal Motion Tracking in Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy" Optical Society of America Conference 2005: Signal Recovering in Adaptive Optics. Charlotte, NC, June, 2005: pdf

• "Dewarping Images from a Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope" Center for Adaptive Optics, SLO image processing meeting. UC Berkeley, April 19, 2005: ppt

• "Tracking Eye Motion from Retinal Scan Data with a Map Seeking Circuit" Center for Adaptive Optics Fall Retreat, Controlling Eye Movements Session. UCLA Conference Center, Lake Arrowhead, CA. November 13, 2004: pdf

• "Your Brain, Crickets, and Math" Longfellow Elementary School. Bozeman, MT. May, 2004.

• "Phase Transitions in the Information Distortion" Neural Information Processing Systems 2003 workshop on Information Theory and Learning: The Bottleneck and Distortion Approach. Whistler, BC, Canada. December 13, 2003: ppt.

• "Modelling and Control Issues Arising in the Quest for a Neural Decoder" Computation, Control, and Biological Systems Conference VIII. MSU-Bozeman. July 30, 2003: ppt

• "A Bifurcation Theoretical Approach to Solving the Neural Coding Problem" IGERT Symposium. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. June 28, 2003: ppt

• "Symmetry Breaking Bifurcations of the Information Distortion" Dissertation Defense, Bozeman, MT. April 8, 2003: ppt

• "Annealing and the Rate Distortion Problem" NIPS, Poster Session. Vancouver, Canada. December 11, 2002: ppt

• "Symmetry Breaking Bifurcation of the Distortion Problem" American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting. University of Wisonsin, Madison, WI. October 13, 2002: ppt

• "Coninuation and Bifurcation of the Distortion Problem" American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting, Poster Session. University of Wisonsin, Madison, WI. October 13, 2002: ppt

• "Continuation and Symmetry Breaking Bifurcation of the Information Distortion Function" Applied Mathematics Seminar, MSU-Bozeman. September 19, 2002: ppt

• "Gottfried Leibniz, Carl Gauss and Neural Coding" Bozeman High School. Bozeman, MT. May 9, 2002:ppt

• "Information Distortion and Neural Coding" First SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences, Poster Session. Boston, MA. March 7, 2002: ppt

• "Recognition" Journal Club, Center for Computational Biology, MSU-Bozeman. February 26, 2002: ppt

• "Functional Magnetic Resonance". Journal Club, Center for Computational Biology, MSU-Bozeman. February 20, 2002:ppt

• "Neural Coding Through the Ages". Complex Biological Systems Seminar, MSU-Bozeman. February 1, 2002: ppt

• "Approaches to Discovering Neural Coding Schemes" Applied Mathematics Seminar, MSU-Bozeman. January 31, 2002: ppt

• "PhD Oral Examination: Information Theory and Neural Coding" Applied Mathematics Seminar, MSU-Bozeman. November 29, 2001: ppt

• "A Probability Model for Neural Coding" Meeting of the Montana Chapter of the American Statistical Association. Montana Tech, Butte, MT. October 23, 2001. ppt

• "Devising an Experimental Protocol for Controlling HIV Infection through Structured Treatment Interruptions" Applied Mathematics Seminar, MSU-Bozeman. October 11,2001: pdf and ps

  

• "My Research: Neural Coding and Decoding" Complex Biological Systems Retreat. Bridger Ski Resort. September, 2001: ppt

• "Modeling Control of HIV Infection through Structured Treatment Interruptions" Industrial Mathematical Modeling Workshop. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. August, 2001: three seperate files, all in ps: slides, more slides and more slides.

• "Computational Issues when Modelling Neural Coding Schemes" Meeting of Montana NSF EPSCoR Project Participants. Northern Rockies Center for Applied Computational Science. MSU-Bozeman. July 9, 2001: ppt

• "Probability Theory and Neural Coding" Final Project for Probability Theory: MATH586. MSU-Bozeman. May 4, 2001: pdf or ps

• "Functionalism" Journal Club, Center for Computational Biology, MSU-Bozeman. May 3, 2001: ppt

• "The Fundamentals of Neural Coding and Decoding" Montana Academy of the Sciences. MSU-Bozeman. April, 2001: ppt

• "Large Scale Optimization Techniques for Alex's Neural Coding and Decoding Model" Center for Computational Biology. MSU-Bozeman. February 27, 2001: pdf or ps