AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 13, 2010 00:34:10

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

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

Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Minimum Rank Problems, I
Room D308, Gottwald Science Center
Organizers:
Lon H. Mitchell, Virginia Commonwealth University lmitchell2@vcu.edu
Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Zero Forcing Parameters and Minimum Rank of a Graph.
  Shaun M Fallat*, University of Regina
  (1065-15-230)
- 9:00 a.m.
  When $\operatorname{mr}^-(G)=\operatorname{MR}^-(G)$ in Skew Symmetric Matrices.
  Amy Wangsness Wehe*, Fitchburg State University
  Luz Maria DeAlba, Drake University
  Judith J McDonald, Washington State University
  (1065-15-104)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Minimum skew rank of powers of paths.
  Luz M. DeAlba*, Drake University
  (1065-15-94)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 10:30 a.m.
  Dot product representations of graphs.
  Tobias Mueller*, centrum wiskunde & informatica
  Ross J Kang, Durham University
  (1065-05-276)

Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Minimum Rank Problems, II
Room D308, Gottwald Science Center
Organizers:
Lon H. Mitchell, Virginia Commonwealth University lmitchell2@vcu.edu
Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Open Problems in Minimum Semidefinite Rank.
  Lon Mitchell*, Virginia Commonwealth University
  (1065-15-272)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion.

Sunday November 7, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Minimum Rank Problems, III
Room D308, Gottwald Science Center
Organizers:
Lon H. Mitchell, Virginia Commonwealth University lmitchell2@vcu.edu
Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University
- 9:00 a.m.
  A role for the Lovász theta function in Quantum Mechanics: entanglement assisted capacity and noncontextuality.
  Simone Severini*, University College London
  (1065-05-223)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lower bounds for the minimum positive semidefinite rank via sign patterns.
  Andrew M. Zimmer*, University of Michigan
  (1065-05-260)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The incidence graph of a Steiner triple system and its minimum semidefinite rank.
  Louis Deatt*, University of Victoria
  (1065-15-261)