AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 11, 2008 00:27:40

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 110, Hugh Dempster Pavillion
Organizers:
Elizabeth S. Allman, University of Alaska Fairbanks e.allman@uaf.edu
Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Polyhedral Methods for Algebraic Curves.
  Verschelde Jan*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1041-14-207)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Least Squares Methods for Equidistant Tree Reconstruction.
  Conor Fahey, San Francisco State University
  Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University
  Nathan Krieger, San Francisco State University
  Leslie Timpe, San Francisco State University
  (1041-52-193)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Hidden variables in statistical models and identifiability.
  Elizabeth S. Allman, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Catherine Matias, Laboratorie Statistique et Genome, CNRS
  John A. Rhodes*, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  (1041-14-42)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Toric Dynamical Systems.
  Anne Shiu*, University of California Berkeley
  (1041-14-192)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Truncated Groebner bases and generating sets of lattice ideals for integer programs.
  Peter N Malkin*, University of California at Davis
  (1041-14-240)

Saturday October 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 110, Hugh Dempster Pavillion
Organizers:
Elizabeth S. Allman, University of Alaska Fairbanks e.allman@uaf.edu
Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Linear Precision for Toric Surface Patches.
  Frank Sottile*, Texas A&M University
  Luis David Garcia-Puente, Sam Houston State University
  Kristian Ranestad, Universitet Oslo
  Hans-Christian Graf von Bothmer, Leibniz Universitität Hannover
  (1041-14-46)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Reconstructing Phylogenetic Mixtures.
  Elchanan Mossel, University of California, Berkeley
  Sebastien Roch*, Microsoft Research
  (1041-60-237)
- 4:00 p.m.
  An Implementation of the Barvinok--Woods Integer Projection Algorithm.
  Matthias Köppe*, University of California, Davis
  Sven Verdoolaege, Universiteit Leiden
  Kevin M. Woods, Oberlin College
  (1041-05-230)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Numerical primary decomposition.
  Anton Leykin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1041-14-51)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Toric Surface Codes and Minkowski Length of Polygons.
  Ivan Soprunov, Cleveland State University
  Jenya Soprunova*, Kent State University
  (1041-14-270)

Sunday October 5, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 110, Hugh Dempster Pavillion
Organizers:
Elizabeth S. Allman, University of Alaska Fairbanks e.allman@uaf.edu
Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Algebraic aspects of Gaussian graphical models.
  Seth Sullivant*, North Carolina State University
  (1041-14-85)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discrete Homotopy Groups and Subspace Arrangements.
  Helene Barcelo*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Arizona State University
  Christopher Severs, Arizona State University
  Jacob White, Arizona State University
  (1041-05-200)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Numerical algebraic geometry in optimal control.
  Dan Bates*, Colorado State University
  (1041-49-129)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Grassmann Varieties, Schubert Varieties and Computer Vision.
  Michael Kirby, Colorado State University
  Chris Peterson*, Colorado State University
  Jen-Mei Chang, Colorado State University
  (1041-14-145)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On bounding as well as computing the Betti numbers of semi-algebraic sets.
  Saugata Basu*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette.
  (1041-14-165)

Sunday October 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 110, Hugh Dempster Pavillion
Organizers:
Elizabeth S. Allman, University of Alaska Fairbanks e.allman@uaf.edu
Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Matrix Cubes Parametrized by Eigenvalues.
  Jiawang Nie, University of California at San Diego
  Bernd Sturmfels*, University of California at Berkeley
  (1041-90-13)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geometry of the Neighbor-Joining Algorithm for Small Trees.
  Kord Eickmeyer, Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  Ruriko Yoshida*, University of Kentucky
  (1041-05-45)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Covariance graphs and hidden variables.
  Mathias Drton*, University of Chicago
  (1041-62-89)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion

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