AMS :: Fall Western Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, October 31, 2014 00:33:49

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Saturday October 25, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Statistics I
Room 432, Thorton Hall
Organizers:
Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University elizabeth.gross@sjsu.edu
Kaie Kubjas, Aalto University
- 9:00 a.m.
  A family of statistical models for k-core decompositions of graphs.
  Sonja Petrovic*, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Dane Wilburne, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Despina Stasi, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Michael Pelsmajer, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Vishesh Karwa, Carnegie Mellon University
  (1104-62-249)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algebraic Graph Limits.
  Alexander Engstrom*, Alexander Engstrom
  (1104-05-58)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Orthogonal Tensor Decomposition.
  Elina M Robeva*, UC Berkeley
  (1104-00-161)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Boundary stratification of tensors with nonnegative rank two.
  Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University Mathematics Department
  (1104-62-255)

Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Statistics II
Room 432, Thorton Hall
Organizers:
Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University elizabeth.gross@sjsu.edu
Kaie Kubjas, Aalto University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Identifiability of Linear Models.
  Nicolette Meshkat*, North Carolina State University
  Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
  (1104-14-214)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Schubert varieties and the distance between linear subspaces of different dimensions.
  Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago
  Ke Ye*, University of Chicago
  (1104-14-145)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Equivariant lattice generators and Markov bases.
  Thomas Kahle, OvGU Magdeburg
  Robert Krone*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Anton Leykin, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1104-13-217)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Remarks on non-{S}hannon information inequalities.
  Michael E O'Sullivan*, San Diego State University
  (1104-94-337)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Sequential Importance Sampling for Two-dimensional Ising Models.
  Jing Xi*, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
  Seth Sullivant, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
  (1104-62-83)

Sunday October 26, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Statistics III
Room 432, Thorton Hall
Organizers:
Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University elizabeth.gross@sjsu.edu
Kaie Kubjas, Aalto University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Modeling the distribution of distance data in Euclidean space.
  Ruth E Davidson*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Joseph Rusinko, Winthrop University
  Jing Xi, North Carolina State University
  (1104-62-132)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algebraic geometry of tree tensor network states.
  Shahrzad Jamshidi*, Pennsylvania State University
  Jason Morton, Pennsylvania State University
  (1104-14-138)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Identifiability of 3-Class Jukes-Cantor Mixtures.
  Colby Long*, North Carolina State University
  Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
  (1104-14-97)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Distribution of k-Interval Cospeciation metric.
  Ruriko Yoshida*, University of Kentucky
  Jin Xie, University of Kentucky
  (1104-05-224)

Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Statistics IV
Room 432, Thorton Hall
Organizers:
Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University elizabeth.gross@sjsu.edu
Kaie Kubjas, Aalto University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Linear Gaussian Covariance Models.
  Piotr Zwiernik*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1104-62-170)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generalized Fréchet bounds and correlation inequalities for multidimensional contingency tables.
  Caroline Uhler*, IST Austria
  Donald Richards, Penn State University
  (1104-62-177)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Identifiability of acyclic directed Gaussian graphical models with one latent variable.
  Dennis Leung*, University of Washington
  Hisayuki Hara, Niigata University
  Mathias Drton, University of Washington
  (1104-62-220)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Solving the dual likelihood equations.
  Jose Israel Rodriguez*, University of Notre Dame
  (1104-14-334)