AMS :: Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:

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)