AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:29

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

Saturday April 28, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, I
Room 329, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts at Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Asymptotics from multivariate rational generating functions.
  Robin Pemantle*, Ohio State University
  (966-05-49)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Asymptotic Growth Rate of the Mean Number of Equlibria of a Two Player Game.
  Andrew McLennan*, Econ Dept, U of Minnesota
  Johannes Berg, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics
  (966-91-80)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Applications of Cartan's Moving Frame Method to Classical Invariant Theory.
  Irina A Kogan*, Yale University
  (966-14-176)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Invariant approximation of differential invariants: an algorithmic approach.
  Mireille Boutin*, University of Minnesota
  (966-53-116)

Saturday April 28, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, II
Room 329, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts at Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Descartes' Rule for Trinomials in the Plane and Beyond.
  Tien Y. Li, Michigan State University
  Joseph M. Rojas*, Texas A\&M University
  Xiaoshen Wang, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  (966-14-187)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Primary Decomposition of Zero-Dimensional Ideals.
  Chris Monico*, University of Notre Dame
  (966-13-121)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Sparse Resultants of Composed Polynomials.
  Manfred Minimair*, North Carolina State University
  (966-14-65)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Using Monodromy to decompose Solution Sets of Polynomial Systems into Irreducible Components.
  Andrew J Sommese, University of Notre Dame
  Jan Verschelde*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Charles W Wampler, General Motors Research Laboratories
  (966-65-68)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Polynomial root finding using iterated eigenvalue computation.
  Steven J Fortune*, Bell Labs
  (966-65-47)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, III
Room 329, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts at Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Maximum Distance Separable Convolutional Codes, Constructions and Decoding.
  Joachim Rosenthal*, University of Notre Dame
  Roxana Smarandache, University of Notre Dame
  (966-94-132)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hypergeometric systems and embedded primes.
  Laura F Matusevich*, University of California at Berkeley
  (966-05-62)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Classifying weakly ${\cal A}$-graded algebras.
  James J Madden*, Wesleyan U. and Louisiana State U.
  (966-13-164)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Supernormal vector configurations.
  Serkan Ho\c{s}ten, San Francisco State University
  Diane Maclagan*, Institute for Advanced Study
  Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley
  (966-13-188)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Mean versus random exponents for unitarily invariant probability measures on $GL(n,C)$.
  Mike Shub*, IBM Yorktown Heights
  Jean-Pierre Dedieu, University Paul Sabatier
  (966-14-196)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, IV
Room 329, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts at Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Applications of the Groebner basis in statistics.
  Ian H Dinwoodie*, Tulane University
  (966-62-177)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Computing Cohomology.
  Gregory G Smith*, UC Berkeley
  (966-14-181)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Solutions to a polynomial system arising in biophysics.
  Jeff Phan*, Columbia University
  (966-00-129)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Solving the Selesnick-Burrus Filter Design Equations (Preliminary Report).
  John B Little*, College of the Holy Cross
  (966-93-131)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The use of Groebner bases in the design of wavelets.
  Ivan W Selesnick*, Polytechnic University
  (966-42-82)

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