jeremy sumner

ARC Research Fellow
School of Mathematics and Physics
University of Tasmania
ph: +61 3 6226 1765
fax: +61 3 6226 2410
email: jsumner@utas.edu.au

My research focuses on applying methods of mathematical physics to phylogenetics.

Markov invariants and phylogenetic tree reconstruction (ARC Discovery project, Sumner, Jarvis and Jarman).

JG Sumner, B Holland and PD Jarvis, "The alegbra of phylogenetic split networks", (in preparation).
JG Sumner and PD Jarvis, "Markov invariants and the isotropy subgroup of a quartet tree", J. Theor. Biol., 258:302-310, 2009.
JG Sumner and MA Charleston, "Phylogenetic estimation with partial likelihood tensors". (Submitted to JTB.)
JG Sumner, MA Charleston, LS Jermiin and PD Jarvis, "Markov invariants, plethyms and phylogenetics", J. Theor. Biol., 253:601-615, 2008.
JG Sumner and PD Jarvis, "Using the tangle: A consistent construction of phylogenetic distance matrices", Mathematical Biosciences, 204:49-67, 2006.
PD Jarvis, JD Bashford and JG Sumner, "Path integral formulation and Feynman rules for phylogenetic branching models". J. Phys. A., 38:9621-9647, 2005.
JG Sumner and PD Jarvis, "Entanglement invariants and phylogenetic branching". J. Math. Biol., 51:18-36, 2005.
JD Bashford, MA Steel, JG Sumner and PD Jarvis, "U(1)xU(1)xU(1) symmetry of the Kimura 3ST model and phylogenetic branching processes". J. Phys. A, 37:L1-L9, 2004.

You can download pdf's of most of these on arxiv.org.

Last modified Jun2009 by Jeremy Sumner.