AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:41

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Concrete Aspects of Real Polynomials, I
Room 268, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Victoria Ann Powers, Emory University vicki@mathcs.emory.edu
Bruce A. Reznick, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana reznick@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  An elementary proof of Schm\"udgen's Theorem in one variable.
  Victoria Powers*, Emory University
  Bruce Reznick, University of Illinois
  (926-14-157)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Describing Convex Sets in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with 3 Inequalities
  Kathleen M Krzastek*, Emory University
  (926-14-231)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Infinitely near base conditions and the 3-dimensional separation conjecture.
  James J Madden*, LSU
  (926-14-202)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Generalizing Newton Identities to the multivariate case
  Gonzalez-Vega Laureano*,
  Gonzalez-Lopez Maria-Jose,
  (926-14-181)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A family of real polynomials and its applications to robot kinematics.
  Jaime Gutierrez, Universidad de Cantabria
  Tomas J Recio*, Universidad de Cantabria
  (926-14-74)
- 5:30 p.m.
  An Improved Algorithm for Quantifier Elimination Over Real Closed Fields.
  Saugata Basu*, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  (926-68-130)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Real Large Solving
  J. Maurice Rojas*, MIT
  (926-65-225)

Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Concrete Aspects of Real Polynomials, II
Room 268, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Victoria Ann Powers, Emory University vicki@mathcs.emory.edu
Bruce A. Reznick, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana reznick@math.uiuc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Polynomials with Concentration at Low Degrees
  Per H Enflo*, Kent State Univ.
  (926-12-204)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Perturbing polynomials with all their roots on the unit circle
  Michael J. Mossinghoff*, Appalachian State University
  Christopher G. Pinner, Flinders University of South Australia
  Jeffrey D. Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin
  (926-12-177)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Inequalities for polynomials with -1,0,1 coefficients
  Tamas Erdelyi*,
  (926-41-235)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Singular points and limit cycles of planar polynomial vector fields
  Ilia Itenberg*, Institut de Recherche Math\'ematique de Rennes, France
  Eugenii Shustin, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  (926-34-123)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The control of linear systems and Shapiros's conjecture
  Frank J Sottile*, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
  (926-14-56)

Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Concrete Aspects of Real Polynomials, III
Room 268, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Victoria Ann Powers, Emory University vicki@mathcs.emory.edu
Bruce A. Reznick, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana reznick@math.uiuc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Can an acute-angled cone be imbedded in a right-angled cone?
  Man-Duen Choi*, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
  (926-15-73)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Bad points for positive semidefinite polynomials
  Charles N. Delzell*, Louisiana State Univ.
  (926-12-174)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Sums of Squares of Polynomials in $R[x,y]$
  David B Leep*,
  (926-12-168)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Real Even Symmetric Forms
  William R Harris*, Georgetown College
  (926-11-137)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Laws of inertia for higher degree forms
  Bruce Reznick*,
  (926-15-150)

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