Raul
Piaggio
Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
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Iowa State University
Phone: (515)
Email: rpiaggio[at]iastate[dot]edu
PhD Student at Iowa State University,
since August 2002.
Ingeniero en Informática, Universidad Católica
del Uruguay, August 2001.
Advisor: Dr. Oliver Eulenstein
Research interests overview (Resume)
- Evolution, both the phylogenetic (especially its algorithmic aspect) point
of view, and the emergence of life, ecosystems and biodiversity.
- Theory of Computation, especially its relationship with Information Theory.
Publications
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Piaggio-Talice, Raul; Burleigh, Gordon; Eulenstein, Oliver. 2004. Quartet Supertrees, in Bininda-Emonds, Olaf R.P. (ed), Phylogenetic Supertrees: Combining Information to Reveal the Tree of Life, pp. 173-191. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. |
Technical Reports
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Ané, Cécile; Eulenstein, Oliver; Piaggio-Talice, Raul. 2005. Phylogenetic Compression and Model Selection: An Improved Encoding Scheme. TR05-07, Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University. |
Software
Quartet Suite, a set of programs to build supertrees by using quartet decomposition. It can be downloaded from our supertree server.
Last updated: 10/19/2005