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Advisory Boards:
- Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) Scientific Advisory Board: 2022--present.
- Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) International Scientific Advisory Committee, Montreal, Canada: 2016--present.
- DIMACS Council and Executive Committee, New Brunswick, NJ: 2005--present.
- Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Board of Governors, Minneapolis, MN: 2010--2014 (Chair: 2013--14).
- Steering Committee for the Symposium of Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2012--2018.
- CRA Committee for the Advancement of Theoretical Computer Science (CATCS), 2013--17.
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--2014.
- Editor for Annales de l'Institute Henri Poincare D: Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions, 2019--present.
- Editor for Collective Intelligence, 2021--present.
Program comittees:
- Chair of the PC and local organizing committee for the Second Symposium on Machine Learning in Science and Engineering (MLSE), June 2019, Atlanta, GA.
- Co-chair of the PC for the First Syposium on Machine Learning in Science and Engineering (MLSE), June 2018, Pittsburgh, PA.
- ANALCO '17 (SIAM Workshop on Analytic Algorihms and Combinatorics), January 2017, Barcelona, Spain.
- Co-chair of the PC for SIAM DM '16 (SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics), June 2016, Atlanta, GA.
- CanaDAM '13 (biennial Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference), June 2013, Newfoundland, Canada.
- ANALCO '12 (Meeting on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics), January 2012, Kyoto, Japan.
- 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.
Guest editing:
- Special issue of ACM Transactions on Algorithms based on the best papers from SODA 2011, (with Shuchi Chawla and Prasad Raghavendra), in progress.
- Special issue of Random Structures and Algorithms, Vol. 15, Issues 3--4, Oct-Dec 1999, (with Jennifer Chayes).
Workshops and special sessions organized:
- Co-chair of the Women in Data Science Workshop (with B. Marshall and J. Priestley), Atlanta, GA, June 2019.
- Special Session Co-Organizer (with A. Richa) AMS/MAA National Joint Mathematics Meetings, on Emergent Phenomena in Discrete Models, San Diego, CA, January 2018.
- Workshop on the Power of Randomness in Computation (with P. Tetali, S. Vempala, and E. Vigoda), Atlanta, GA, March 2015.
- Workshop on "Computation and Phase Transitions" (with Prasad Tetali and Eric Vigoda), Atlanta, GA, June 2012.
- Workshop on ``Connections for Women: Disrete Lattice Models in Mathematics, Physics and Computing,'' (with Beatrice de Tiliere and Chris Soteros), MSRI, Berkeley, CA, upcoming January 2012.
- Working group on ``Analysis of Markov Chains on Combinatorial and Statistical Mechanics Models,'' (with Fabio Martinelli and Prasad Tetali), Atlanta, GA, June 2009.
- 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.
Special foci organized:
- Co-chair (with Greg Sorkin) of the organizing committee of a DIMACS/GATECH special focus on Discrete Random Systems, 2006-2010.