AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:48

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 4, 1998, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Sparse Elimination Methods in Polynomial System Solving, I
Room 7B, TUCC
Organizers:
Ioannis Z. Emiris, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France emiris@sophia.inria.fr
J. Maurice Rojas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology rojas@math.mit.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  On Multivariate Descartes Rule.
  Tien-Yien Li*, Michigan State University
  Xiaoshen Wang, University of Central Arkansas
  (933-65-124)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Integral Points on Sparse Algebraic Curves.
  J. Maurice Rojas*, City University of Hong Kong
  (933-14-185)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Expected Number of Roots of a Multihomogeneous Systems of Polynomial Equations.
  Andrew M McLennan*, University of Minnesota
  (933-14-23)

Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Sparse Elimination Methods in Polynomial System Solving, II
Room 7B, TUCC
Organizers:
Ioannis Z. Emiris, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France emiris@sophia.inria.fr
J. Maurice Rojas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology rojas@math.mit.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Groebner Bases and Invariants.
  Karin Gatermann*, FU Berlin / ZIB
  (933-68-184)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Degrees of Groebner bases of toric ideals.
  Serkan Hosten*, George Mason University
  (933-14-182)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Computing the State Polytope of a Toric Ideal.
  Rekha Rachel Thomas*, Texas A&M University
  Birkett Huber, Texas A&M University
  (933-14-178)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Certificates for Deficient Sparse Polynomial Systems:.
  Birkett Huber*, Texas A&M University
  Jan Verschelde, Michagan State University
  (933-14-171)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday April 5, 1998, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Sparse Elimination Methods in Polynomial System Solving, III
Room 7B, TUCC
Organizers:
Ioannis Z. Emiris, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France emiris@sophia.inria.fr
J. Maurice Rojas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology rojas@math.mit.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Symbolic and numeric methods for exploiting structure in constructing resultant matrices.
  Victor Y. Pan*, Lehman College, City University of New York
  Ioannis Z. Emiris, INRIA
  (933-68-147)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Sparsity in Dixon Resultants.
  Deepak Kapur*, State University of New York at Albany
  (933-13-148)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Structured matrices and polynomial system solving.
  Bernard Mourrain*, INRIA
  (933-15-218)

Sunday April 5, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Sparse Elimination Methods in Polynomial System Solving, IV
Room 7B, TUCC
Organizers:
Ioannis Z. Emiris, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France emiris@sophia.inria.fr
J. Maurice Rojas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology rojas@math.mit.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Balancing the Lifting Values to Improve the Numerical Stability of Polyhedral Homotopy Continuation Methods.
  Tangan Gao, Michigan State University, Department of Mathematics
  T.Y. Li, Michigan State University, Department of Mathematics
  Jan Verschelde*, Michigan State University, Department of Mathematics
  Mengnien Wu, Michigan State University, Department of Mathematics
  (933-65-89)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the geometry of Graeffe iteration.
  Gregorio Malajovich*, Departamento de Matematica Aplicada, UFRJ.
  Jorge Passamani Zubelli, IMPA, CNPq
  (933-65-55)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Applications of Various Methods in Elimination Theory to a Problem in Computer Vision.
  Peter F. Stiller*, Texas A&M Univeristy
  (933-14-194)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Applications of elimination methods in exact-arithmetic based geometric programs.
  John C. Keyser*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Dinesh Manocha, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Shankar Krishnan, AT\&T Research Labs
  Tim Culver, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (933-14-238)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion

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