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Recent Activities

Program comittees:
- Chair of the PC for SODA '11 (Symposium on Discrete Algorithms), January 2011, San Francisco, CA.
- Chair of the AMS PC for national meetings, 2010-11.
- AMS Program Committee for national meetings, 2008-11.
- RANDOM '09 (Randomization and Approximation Techniques in CS), August 2009, Berkeley, CA.
- FOCS '06 (Foundations of Computer Science), October 2006, Berkeley, CA.
- RANDOM '05 (Randomization and Approximation Techniques in CS), August 2005, Berkeley, CA.
- AofA '05 (Analysis of Algorithms), July 2005, Barcelona, Spain.
- SODA '05 (Symposium on Discrete Algorithms), Jaunuary 2005, Vancouver, BC.
- RANDOM '03 (Randomization and Approximation Techniques in CS), August 2003, Princeton, NJ.
- FOCS '03 (Foundations of Computer Science, October 2003, Cambridge, MA.
- SODA '02 (Symposium on Discrete Algorithms), January 2002, San Francisco, CA.
- RANDOM '01 (Randomization and Approximation Techniques in CS), August 2001, Berkeley, CA.
- FOCS '99 (Foundations of Computer Science), October 1999, NYC.
- SODA '99 (Symposium on Discrete Algorithms), January 1999, Baltimore, MD.
Special foci organized:
- Co-chair (with Greg Sorkin) of the organizing committee of a DIMACS/GATECH special focus on Discrete Random Systems, 2006-2010.
Editorial Boards:
- Associate Editor for the Annals of Applied Probability, 2003--2005.
- Editor for the Theory of Computing -- an electronic journal, 2004--present.
- Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2007--present.
Guest editing:
- Special issue of Random Structures and Algorithms, Vol. 15, Issues 3--4, Oct-Dec 1999, (with Jennifer Chayes).

Workshops and special sessions organized:
- Organizing committee and special session organizer for the 5th International Symposium on Probability and its Applications on "Mixing rates of finite Markov chains," Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2006.
- Co-chair of the organizing committee for the 9th Annual Japanese-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan, December 2006.
- Organizing committee for the 8th Annual Japanese-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan, December 2005.
- Special session at the 6th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability on ``Mixing of finite Markov chains,'' July 2004.
- Special session at the Joint AMS/MAA Mathematics Meetings on ``Discrete Models,'' (with Cris Moore), January 2003.
- Workshop on ``Combinatorial Methods for Statistical Physics Models,'' (with Prasad Tetali), April 1999.
- Workshop on ``Statistical Physics Methods in Discrete Probability, Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science,'' (with Jennifer Chayes), March 1997.