AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 28, 2020 03:30:05

Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting

• Tufts University, Medford, MA
• March 21-22, 2020 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1156

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

• Saturday March 21, 2020, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Combinatorics, I
  Room 309, Anderson Hall
  Organizers:
  Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
  Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
  Caroline Klivans, Brown University klivans@brown.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Where can a place cell put its fields? Let us count the ways.
    Ila Fiete*, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
    Manyi Yim, University of Texas at Austin and MIT
    Lorenzo Sadun, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
    Thibaud Taillefumier, Dept. of Mathematics, and Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin
    (1156-05-60)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    What makes a neural code convex?
    Carina Curto, The Pennsylvania State University
    Elizabeth Gross, The University of Hawai'i at Manoa
    Jack Jeffries, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A.C.
    Katherine Morrison, University of Northern Colorado
    Mohamed Omar, Harvey Mudd College
    Zvi Rosen, Florida Atlantic University
    Anne Shiu, Texas A&M University
    Nora Youngs*, Colby College
    (1156-92-312)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convex neural codes and local obstructions.
    Florian Frick*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1156-52-235)
• Saturday March 21, 2020, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Combinatorics, II
  Room 309, Anderson Hall
  Organizers:
  Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
  Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
  Caroline Klivans, Brown University klivans@brown.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cortical computations via metastable activity.
    Giancarlo LaCamera*, Stony Brook University
    (1156-05-375)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial Geometry of Threshold-Linear Networks.
    Christopher M Langdon*, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    (1156-05-191)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Kinetic Space of Multistationarity in Dual Phosphorylation.
    Elisenda Feliu, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    Nidhi Kaihnsa*, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
    Timo de Wolff, Institute of Analysis and Algebra, TU Braunschweig, Germany
    Oguzhan Yürük, Institute of Analysis and Algebra, TU Braunschweig, Germany
    (1156-05-218)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Representation Theory Advances For Space-Time SUSY: Adinkra Networks, Branching Rules, Plethysm, Young Tableaux, & Dynkin Labels.
    Sylvester Gates*, Brown University
    (1156-05-301)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Adinkras: Graphs that describe supersymmetry.
    Kevin Iga*, Pepperdine University and Brown University
    (1156-05-343)
• Sunday March 22, 2020, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Combinatorics, III
  Room 309, Anderson Hall
  Organizers:
  Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
  Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
  Caroline Klivans, Brown University klivans@brown.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Random Walk Methods in the Analysis of Biological Networks.
    Lenore J Cowen*, Tufts University
    (1156-05-130)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fixed-point Iteration with convex optimization.
    Pedro Felzenszwalb*, Brown University
    Caroline Klivans, Brown University
    Alice Paul, Olin College
    (1156-05-306)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Iterative Methods for Semidefinite Programming Relaxations.
    Alice Paul*, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    (1156-05-221)
• Sunday March 22, 2020, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Combinatorics, IV
  Room 309, Anderson Hall
  Organizers:
  Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
  Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
  Caroline Klivans, Brown University klivans@brown.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Old and New Results in Force-Directed Graph Drawing.
    John C Urschel*, MIT
    (1156-05-303)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Vietoris-Rips Persistent Homology and Geometric Invariants.
    Facundo Memoli*, The Ohio State University
    (1156-55-353)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Matroids, log-concavity, and expanders.
    Nima Anari, Stanford
    Kuikui Liu, University of Washington
    Shayan Oveis Gharan, University of Washington
    Cynthia Vinzant*, North Carolina State University
    (1156-05-295)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Complexity of Toric Ideals.
    Diego Cifuentes*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Shmuel Onn, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    (1156-68-231)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Deterministic Time-Space Tradeoffs for k-SUM.
    Andrea I Lincoln*, MIT
    Virginia Vassilevska Williams, MIT
    Josh Wang, Google Research
    Ryan Williams, MIT
    (1156-05-250)