Aida Maraj
I am a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a postdoctoral assistant professor on leave at the University of Michigan.
My research interests lie in applied and asymptotic algebra and geometry. Applications include data science, statistics and phylogenetics. Tools I use are from algebra, combinatorics, geometry, formal language theory and symbolic computation.
My research is supported by the NSF Grant DMS2306672 (PI) and a Simons Travel Grant.
For Fall 2023 I was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation at the University of Chicago. For the academic year 2022-2023 I served as an IBL Desapio fellow at the University of Michigan. In 2020, I received a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky. After that, I was for a year a postdoctoral researcher in the Non-Linear Algebra Group at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.
2024 undergraduate research team on algebraic statistics of multivariate Gaussian models
Graduate student mentor: Alvaro Ribot (Harvard)
Undergraduate students: Emma Cardwell (Harvard) and Amer Goel (Michigan), both funded by NSF Grant DMS2306672
In July 18-29, 2022 we organized the international CIMPA* summer school Mathematical Methods in Data Analysis at the University of Tirana (UT), Albania. Among the topics, the program included applications of algebra, combinatorics, geometry and software for them. The school was generously supported by UT, the Albanian Academy of Sciences, CIMPA, INRIA, Company NinetyOne, the New York School of Science in Kosovo, The City Hall of Tirana and Tirana European Youth Capital '22*.
Photos from the CIMPA Math in Tirana '22 school are here.
In January 20, 2023, the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tirana held an Alumni Day.
In May 16, 2024, the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tetova will held a Women in Mathematics Day.
*Tirana was selected as the European Youth Capital for the year 2022.
Some Recent and Upcoming Events
past events are found in my CV (last updated Oct. '23)
- visiting researcher @ University of Oxford, St Johns college hosted by Jane Ivy Coons -- University of Oxford, England, May 7-Jun. 24, 2023.
- Computations and Data in Algebraic Statistics, BIRS workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico, May 14-19, 2023 (remotely)
- Foundations of Computational Mathematics -- Surbonne University, France, June 12-Jun. 21, 2023
- co-organize with Arthur Bik and Rob Eggermont the mini-symposium Asymptotic Algebra and Geometry @ SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry -- Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, Jul. 10-14, 2023
- talk at the mini-symposium Application of Discrete Geometry in Statistics @ SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry -- Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, Jul. 10-14, 2023
- member @ Algebraic Statistics and Our Changing World -- Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, Chicago, Fall 2023
- talk @ Commutative Algebra Seminar -- University of Hawaii, Oct. 4, 2023
- talk @ Algebraic Statistics for Ecological and Biological Systems -- Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, Chicago, Oct. 9-13, 2023
- talk @ Stockholm Commutative Algebra Seminar -- Online, Oct 19, 2023
- talk @Topology, Algebra, Combinatorics, and Operators Seminar-- Loyola University, Nov. 8, 2023
- talk @ Symmetry, Stability, and Interactions with Computations -- CIRM, Luminy, France, Nov. 13-17, 2023
- talk @ Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar, Rutgers University, Feb. 7, 2024
- course on Applied Algebra with Symmetries in the Infinite Setting @ CIMPA* school on Algebra and Algebraic Geometry for Applications -- Pakistan, Feb 26 - Mar 8, 2024
- research visit at University of Michigan and committee for Shelby Cox's dissertation defense, March 13-15, 2024.
- talk @ AMS session: Commutative Algebra and its Applications --Washington DC, Apr 6-7, 2024
- talk @ UweFest: Conference on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics -- University of Notre Dame, Aug 12-19, 2024
*taken from the CIMPA webpage: The Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA), founded in France in 1978, is a nonprofit organisation that promotes research in Mathematics in developing countries. Located in Nice, it is a UNESCO Category 2 centre and is part of the Laboratoire d'Excellence CARMIN (Centres d'Accueil et de Rencontres Mathématiques Internationales). It benefits from the financial support of Germany, France, Norway, Spain and Switzerland. CIMPA generously supported the summer school in Tirana, Albania in 2022, which I co-organized.