AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 25, 2009 00:30:46

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday October 16, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applicable Algebraic Geometry, I
B105, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Luis David Garcia-Puente, Sam Houston State University lgarcia@shsu.edu
Frank Sotille, Texas A&M University sottile@math.tamu.edu
- 3:00 p.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
  (1051-14-30)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A Fast Algorithm for Computing Geodesic Distances in Tree Space.
  Megan Owen*, North Carolina State University
  J. Scott Provan, University of North Carolina
  (1051-92-234)
- 4:00 p.m.
  What do Coxeter groups and Boolean networks have in common?
  Matthew Macauley*, Clemson University
  (1051-05-219)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Probabilistic dynamical systems for reverse engineering of the yeast cell cycle network.
  Elena S Dimitrova*, Clemson University
  Abdul S Jarrah, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
  (1051-14-92)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Algebraic Statistical Model for Inferring Biochemical Reactions Network.
  Grzegorz A Rempala*, Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Georgia
  (1051-62-87)

Saturday October 17, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Applicable Algebraic Geometry, II
B105, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Luis David Garcia-Puente, Sam Houston State University lgarcia@shsu.edu
Frank Sotille, Texas A&M University sottile@math.tamu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Markov bases and subbases for bounded contingency tables.
  Fabio Rapallo, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Avanzate
  Ruriko Yoshida*, University of Kentucky
  (1051-05-29)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Inverse semigroup Fourier analysis for partially ranked data.
  Martin Malandro*, Sam Houston State University
  (1051-20-159)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Finiteness theorems for chains of toric ideals.
  Christopher J. Hillar, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  Abraham Martín del Campo*, Texas A&M University
  (1051-13-114)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Toric models of graphs.
  Weronika J Buczynska*, Texas A&M University
  (1051-14-162)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Secant varieties to tangential varieties of cubic Veronese embedding.
  Hirotachi Abo*, University of Idaho
  (1051-14-93)

Saturday October 17, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applicable Algebraic Geometry, III
B105, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Luis David Garcia-Puente, Sam Houston State University lgarcia@shsu.edu
Frank Sotille, Texas A&M University sottile@math.tamu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On higher dimensional toric codes.
  Ivan Soprunov*, Cleveland State University
  Jenya Soprunova, Kent State University
  (1051-14-95)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The minimal distance of evaluation codes.
  Stefan O. Tohaneanu*, University of Cincinnati
  (1051-13-144)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Factoring polynomials and an algebraic surface cryptosystem.
  J. Felipe Voloch*, Dept of Math., UT Austin
  (1051-14-36)

Sunday October 18, 2009, 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applicable Algebraic Geometry, IV
B105, Baylor Sciences Bldg
Organizers:
Luis David Garcia-Puente, Sam Houston State University lgarcia@shsu.edu
Frank Sotille, Texas A&M University sottile@math.tamu.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Chamber Cones and Faster Real Solution Counting.
  J. Maurice Rojas*, Texas A&M University
  (1051-14-81)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Experimentation at the Frontiers of Reality in Schubert Calculus.
  Chris Hillar, MSRI
  Luis García-Puente, SHSU
  Abraham Martín del Campo, TAMU
  James Ruffo, SUNY Oneonta
  Stephen L. Johnson, TAMU
  Zach Teitler*, TAMU
  Frank Sottile, TAMU
  (1051-14-50)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Descartes' Rule is Exact!
  Martin Eugenio Avendano*, Texas A&M University
  (1051-00-209)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Khovanskii-Rolle continuation for real solutions of polynomial systems.
  Dan Bates*, Colorado State University
  Frank Sottile, Texas A&M
  (1051-14-133)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Numerical Algebraic Geometry for Macaulay 2.
  Anton Leykin*, Georgia Tech
  (1051-14-198)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Numerical computation of the Jordan Canonical Form of a matrix via algebraic geometry.
  Chris Peterson*, Colorado State University
  (1051-14-210)

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