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Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting (formerly at Brown University)

• now meeting virtually, EDT (hosted by the American Mathematical Society), Virtual, RI
• March 20-21, 2021 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1165

Associate secretary:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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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.

Special Session on Applied Combinatorics

• Saturday March 20, 2021, 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Combinatorics, I
  Special Session 3, AMS
  Organizers:
  Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
  Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
  Caroline Klivans, Brown University klivans@brown.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sudoku Combinatorics in the Mathematical Foundation of Supersymmetry (susy) in Physics.
    Sylvester James Gates, Jr.*, Brown University
    (1165-05-125)
• Saturday March 20, 2021, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Combinatorics, II
  Special Session 3, AMS
  Organizers:
  Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
  Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
  Caroline Klivans, Brown University klivans@brown.edu
  

  • 11:00 a.m.
    Adinkras: Graphs that describe supersymmetry.
    Kevin Iga*, Pepperdine University
    (1165-05-50)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Enumeration of Discrete Gradient Vector Fields on Simplicial Complexes.
    Andrew Tawfeek*, Amherst College
    Ivan Contreras, Amherst College
    Alejandro Morales, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1165-05-6)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Order-forcing in neural codes.
    Nora Youngs*, Colby College
    R. Amzi Jeffs, University of Washington
    Caitlin Lienkaemper, Pennsylvania State University
    (1165-52-272)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Metastable activity in recurrent networks of spiking neurons.
    Giancarlo La Camera*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    (1165-05-221)
• Saturday March 20, 2021, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Combinatorics, III
  Special Session 3, AMS
  Organizers:
  Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
  Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
  Caroline Klivans, Brown University klivans@brown.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Convex neural codes and local obstructions.
    Florian Frick*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1165-05-177)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Oriented Matroids and Neural Codes.
    Alexander Kunin, Baylor College of Medicine
    Caitlin Lienkaemper*, Pennsylvania State University
    Zvi Rosen, Florida Atlantic University
    (1165-05-268)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday March 21, 2021, 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Combinatorics, IV
  Special Session 3, AMS
  Organizers:
  Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
  Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
  Caroline Klivans, Brown University klivans@brown.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Multistationarity of Phosphorylation Networks.
    Elisenda Feliu, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
    Nidhi Kaihnsa*, Brown University, Providence, USA
    Timo de Wolff, Institute of Analysis and Algebra, TU Braunschweig, Germany.
    Oguzhan Yürük, Institute of Analysis and Algebra, TU Braunschweig, Germany.
    (1165-05-117)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Combinatorial Geometry of Threshold-Linear Networks.
    Christopher Langdon*, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    (1165-05-265)
• Sunday March 21, 2021, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Combinatorics, V
  Special Session 3, AMS
  Organizers:
  Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
  Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
  Caroline Klivans, Brown University klivans@brown.edu
  

  • 11:00 a.m.
    Iterated Linear Optimization.
    Pedro Felzenszwalb*, Brown University
    Caroline Klivans, Brown University
    Alice Paul, Brown University
    (1165-90-32)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Clustering with Iterated Linear Optimization.
    Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
    Caroline Klivans, Brown University
    Alice Paul*, Brown University
    (1165-05-47)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Stress Minimization for Low Diameter Graphs.
    John Urschel*, MIT
    (1165-05-305)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Some rigidity results for metric spaces via persistent homology.
    Sunhyuk Lim*, The Ohio State University
    Facundo Memoli, The Ohio State University
    Osman Berat Okutan, Florida State University
    (1165-51-38)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday March 21, 2021, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Combinatorics, VI
  Special Session 3, AMS
  Organizers:
  Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
  Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
  Caroline Klivans, Brown University klivans@brown.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Log-concavity, matroids, and expanders.
    Nima Anari, Stanford
    Kuikui Liu, University of Washington
    Shayan Oveis Gharan, University of Washington
    Cynthia Vinzant*, North Carolina State University/Institute for Advanced Study
    (1165-05-122)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Computation of banded hafnians and applications in optical quantum computing.
    Diego Cifuentes*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Haoyu Qi, Xanadu AI
    Kamil Bradler, Xanadu AI
    Robert Israel, Xanadu AI
    Timjan Kalajdzievski, Xanadu AI
    Nicolas Quesada, Xanadu AI
    (1165-15-37)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Refined Laser Method and Faster Matrix Multiplication.
    Josh Alman, Harvard
    Virginia Vassilevska Williams*, MIT
    (1165-68-205)

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