AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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2004 Fall Central Section Meeting
Evanston, IL, October 23-24, 2004
Meeting #1001

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Special Session on Solving Polynomial Systems

• Saturday October 23, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Solving Polynomial Systems, I
  Room G 43, Donald P. Jacobs Center
  Organizers:
  Anton Leykin, University of Illinois at Chicago leykin@math.uic.edu
  Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago jan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Homotopies to Compute Intersections of Solution Components of Polynomial Systems.
    Andrew J Sommese*, University of Notre Dame
    (1001-65-91)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Solving Polynomial Systems by Intersecting Subsystems Using Diagonal Homotopies.
    Andrew J Sommese, University of Notre Dame
    Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Charles W Wampler*, General Motors R&D Center
    (1001-65-104)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Advantages of Parsing Polynomials into Straight-line Programs.
    Daniel J Bates*, University of Notre Dame
    (1001-68-243)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Is the attained solution isolated?
    Tien-Yien Li*, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, E.Lansing,MI
    (1001-65-201)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Newton's Method with Deflation for Isolated Singularities of Polynomial Systems.
    Anton Leykin, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Ailing Zhao*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1001-65-235)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Determination of the dimension of a variety and some applications.
    Wenyuan Wu*, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario
    Greg Reid, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario
    (1001-14-94)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Solving Polynomial Systems, II
  Room G 43, Donald P. Jacobs Center
  Organizers:
  Anton Leykin, University of Illinois at Chicago leykin@math.uic.edu
  Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago jan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Soprunova Room G 44
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Wang Room G 44
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An Algebraic Method for Analyzing Dynamic Systems.
    Wenqin Zhou*, Applied Mathmatics Department, Unversity of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
    Greg Reid, University of Western Ontario
    David Jeffrey, University of Western Ontario
    (1001-34-95)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Polynomial Gcds over Direct Products of Fields Given by Towers of Simple Extensions.
    Marc Moreno Maza*, University of Western Ontario
    Boulier, University of Lille 1 (France)
    Oancea, University of Western Ontario
    (1001-12-401)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An Exact Toric Resultant-Based RUR Approach for Solving Polynomial Systems.
    Koji Ouchi*, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
    John Keyser, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
    (1001-68-204)
• Sunday October 24, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Solving Polynomial Systems, III
  Room G 43, Donald P. Jacobs Center
  Organizers:
  Anton Leykin, University of Illinois at Chicago leykin@math.uic.edu
  Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago jan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The maximum likelihood degree and the likelihood equations.
    Fabrizio Catanese, Universitaet Bayreuth
    Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University, Mathematics Department
    Amit Khetan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
    (1001-14-164)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Reconstructing dynamical systems from their zeta functions.
    Christopher J Hillar*, U.C. Berkeley
    (1001-12-121)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Resultants of Sparse Polynomials and Toric Vanishing Theorems.
    Amit Khetan*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1001-14-57)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Smale's 6th Problem: A solution in the four-body case.
    Marshall E Hampton*, University of Minnesota
    Richard Moeckel, University of Minnesota
    (1001-37-119)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cellular Exclusion Algorithms for Polynomial Systems.
    Eugene L. Allgower*, Colorado State University
    Kurt Georg, deceased
    (1001-65-195)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Solving the Polynomial Equations of the Geometric Design Problem of the Spatial 3R Mechanisms.
    Eric C Lee*, Northeastern University
    Constantinos Mavroidis, Northeastern University
    (1001-14-421)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Using Polynomial Homotopy Method to Mechanism Synthesis.
    Hai-Jun Su*, University of California, Irvine
    (1001-08-129)
• Sunday October 24, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Solving Polynomial Systems, IV
  Room G 43, Donald P. Jacobs Center
  Organizers:
  Anton Leykin, University of Illinois at Chicago leykin@math.uic.edu
  Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago jan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Genetic Algorithms for zero-dimensional ideals.
    Ilias S. Kotsireas*, Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
    (1001-14-221)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Toric residues and partitions of polytopes.
    Amit Khetan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Ivan Soprounov*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1001-14-258)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximate GCD and Factorization of Multivariate Polynomials.
    Zhonggang Zeng*, Northeastern Illinois University
    (1001-65-232)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Solving Multivariate Polynomial Systems.
    Hong Zhang*, Illinois Institute of Technology and Argonne National Laboratory
    (1001-65-146)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Numerical Jet Geometry of Partial Differential Equations.
    Greg J. Reid*, University of Western Ontario
    (1001-35-207)

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