Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting (formerly at Georgia Institute of Technology)

• now meeting virtually, Eastern Time (hosted by the American Mathematical Society), Virtual, RI
• March 13-14, 2021 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1164

Brian D. Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

AMS 2021 Spring Sectional Meetings will be held VIRTUALLY on the originally planned dates. Further details will be posted as soon as they are available. Send questions to meet@ams.org.

• Saturday March 13, 2021, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimization and Real Algebraic Geometry, I
  Special Session 15, AMS
  Organizers:
  Saugata Basu, Purdue University
  Ali Mohammad Nezhad, Purdue University mohamm42@purdue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Optimization, Complexity and Invariant Theory.
    Peter Burgisser*, Technical University Berlin, Germany
    (1164-90-213)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    What is the degree of a smooth hypersurface?
    Antonio Lerario*, SISSA
    Michele Stecconi, Nantes
    (1164-53-179)
• Saturday March 13, 2021, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimization and Real Algebraic Geometry, II
  Special Session 15, AMS
  Organizers:
  Saugata Basu, Purdue University
  Ali Mohammad Nezhad, Purdue University mohamm42@purdue.edu
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    How do exponential size solutions arise in semidefinite programming?
    Gabor Pataki*, UNC Chapel Hill
    Aleksandr Touzov, UNC Chapel Hill
    (1164-49-235)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Conic programming: infeasibility certificates and projective geometry.
    Simone Naldi*, Université de Limoges
    Rainer Sinn, Universität Leipzig
    (1164-52-104)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    How to construct any weakly infeasible semidefinite program and bad projection of the psd cone?
    Gabor Pataki, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Aleksandr Touzov*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1164-90-48)
• Sunday March 14, 2021, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimization and Real Algebraic Geometry, III
  Special Session 15, AMS
  Organizers:
  Saugata Basu, Purdue University
  Ali Mohammad Nezhad, Purdue University mohamm42@purdue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Certificates of Nonnegativity and Their Applications in Theoretical Computer Science.
    Timo de Wolff*, Braunschweig
    Adam Kurpisz, ETH Zürich
    Mareike Dressler, UC San Diego
    (1164-14-216)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Carathéodory numbers of high dimensional moment problems.
    Philipp di Dio, TU Berlin
    Mario Kummer*, TU Dresden
    (1164-14-219)
• Sunday March 14, 2021, 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimization and Real Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Special Session 15, AMS
  Organizers:
  Saugata Basu, Purdue University
  Ali Mohammad Nezhad, Purdue University mohamm42@purdue.edu
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Central Curve in Semidefinite Programming.
    Serkan Hoşten, San Francisco State University
    Angélica Torres, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Isabelle Shankar*, UC, Berkeley
    (1164-90-223)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Real Degeneracy Loci of Matrices and their configuration.
    Papri Dey*, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
    Dan Edidin, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
    (1164-14-222)