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2010 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Lexington, KY, March 27-28, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1057

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

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Special Session on Advances in Algebraic Statistics

• Saturday March 27, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Algebraic Statistics, I
  Room 204, White Hall
  Organizers:
  Sonja Petrović, University of Illinois, Chicago petrovic@math.uic.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Identifiability of Phylogenetic Mixture Models.
    Elizabeth Allman, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
    Sonja Petrovic, University of Illinois, Chicago
    John Rhodes, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
    Seth Sullivant*, North Carolina State University
    (1057-92-96)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ideals of Graph Homomorphisms.
    Alexander Engström*, UC Berkeley
    (1057-13-21)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Geometry of Discrete Exponential Families with Application to Exponential Random Graph Models.
    Alessandro Rinaldo*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Stephen E. Feinberg, Carnegie Mellon University
    Yi Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1057-62-460)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic Approximation of Marginal Likelihood Integrals.
    Shaowei Lin*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1057-62-239)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Identifiability of Gaussian graphical models.
    Luis David Garcia-Puente*, Sam Houston State University
    Sarah Spielvogel, Sam Houston State University
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1057-14-237)
• Saturday March 27, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Algebraic Statistics, II
  Room 204, White Hall
  Organizers:
  Sonja Petrović, University of Illinois, Chicago petrovic@math.uic.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geometry of the Restricted Boltzmann Machine.
    Maria Angelica Cueto, U.C. Berkeley
    Jason R Morton*, Pennsylvania State University
    Bernd Sturmfels, U.C. Berkeley
    (1057-62-19)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Algebraic generation of Orthogonal Fractional Factorial Designs.
    Roberto Fontana*, Politecnico di Torino, DIMAT
    Giovanni Pistone, Politecnico di Torino, DIMAT
    (1057-62-264)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Averaging Metric Trees.
    Ezra Miller, Duke University
    Megan Owen*, North Carolina State University/SAMSI
    J. Scott Provan, UNC Chapel Hill
    (1057-52-435)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Identifying Outlier Gene Trees: Gene Tree Distributions and Support Vector Machinery.
    David Haws*, University of Kentucky
    Eric M O'Neill, University of Kentucky
    Peter Huggins, Carnegie Mellon
    David Weisrock, University of Kentucky
    Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
    (1057-92-323)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Semidefinite matrix completion and Gaussian graphical models.
    Caroline Uhler*, UC Berkeley
    (1057-62-149)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The geometry of hierarchical discrete loglinear models.
    Helene M. Massam*, York University, Toronto
    Gerard G. Letac, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
    (1057-62-115)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Algebraic statistics framework for causal inference and data privacy with discrete data.
    Slavkovic B Aleksandra*, Penn State University
    Karwa Vishesh, Penn State University
    (1057-62-412)
• Sunday March 28, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Algebraic Statistics, III
  Room 204, White Hall
  Organizers:
  Sonja Petrović, University of Illinois, Chicago petrovic@math.uic.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hierarchical subspace models for contingency tables.
    Hisayuki Hara, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Tomonari Sei, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Akimichi Takemura*, University of Tokyo, Japan
    (1057-62-257)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Using sequence coverage statistics to determine protein binding sites in a genome.
    Steven N. Evans, University of California, Berkeley
    Valerie Hower*, University of California, Berkeley
    Lior Pachter, University of California, Berkeley
    (1057-92-130)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hierarchical Models, Markov Bases and Stanley-Reisner Ideals.
    Erik Stokes*, Michigan Technological University
    Sonja Petrovic, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (1057-13-346)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Study of diagonal-effect models as toric and mixture models.
    Fabio Rapallo*, Department DISTA, University of Eastern Piedmont
    (1057-62-190)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Smoothness of Gaussian conditional independence models.
    Mathias Drton, The University of Chicago
    Han Xiao*, The University of Chicago
    (1057-62-433)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Large Sparse Data and Algebraic Statistics: Is There a Connection?
    Stephen E. Fienberg*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1057-62-120)
• Sunday March 28, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Algebraic Statistics, IV
  Room 204, White Hall
  Organizers:
  Sonja Petrović, University of Illinois, Chicago petrovic@math.uic.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Model selection for mixture models.
    Anna Magdalena Kedzierska*, Department of Applied Mathematics I, Polytechnic University of Catalonia; Bioinformatics and Genomics, CRG
    (1057-14-414)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectral Analysis of Dihedral Data.
    Marlos A.G. Viana*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1057-43-385)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Parameterization of mixture of independence models.
    Enrico Carlini*, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino
    (1057-62-241)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Binomial Edge Ideals and Conditional Independence.
    J. Herzog, Universität Duisburg-Essen
    T. Hibi, Osaka University
    F. Hreinsdottir, University of Iceland
    T. Kahle*, MPI MiS, Leipzig, Germany
    J. Rauh, MPI MiS, Leipzig, Germany
    (1057-13-189)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    How to identify hidden Markov processes---an algebraic statistical answer.
    Alexander Schoenhuth*, University of California at Berkeley
    (1057-62-147)

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