Applications of Algebraic Geometry

September 01, 2006 - June 30, 2007

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Overview

Image of Griffis-Duffy platform made by Charles W. Wampler and Douglas N. Arnold using Matlab. A Griffis-Duffy Type I platform consists of two equilateral triangles with moveable legs connecting the vertices of one with the edge midpoints of the other. With the base triangle in fixed position and the leg lengths fixed but angles free, a point attached to the other triangle traces out an algebraic curve of degree 40 in Euclidean 3-space.

Algebraic geometry has a long and distinguished presence in the history of mathematics that produced both powerful and elegant theorems. In recent years new algorithms have been developed and several old and new methods from algebraic geometry have led to significant and unexpected advances in several diverse areas of application. Motivated by these exciting developments, the year in algebraic geometry and its applications aims to bring together mathematicians, computer scientists, economists, statisticians and engineers from various disciplines in order to enhance interactions, generate new applications and motivate further progress.

In the first quarter, the two workshops cover algorithms and software with a particular eye towards applications. In the second and third quarter, the workshops cover applications in optimization, control, statistics, economics and bioinformatics, coding, complexity, communications and computational geometry.

Organizing Committee:

Dimitris Bertsimas	Sloan School of Management	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pablo A. Parrilo	Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael E. Stillman	Department of Mathematics	Cornell University
Bernd Sturmfels	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Berkeley
Madhu Sudan	EECS Department	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rekha Thomas	Department of Mathematics	University of Washington

Poster

Events

May 29 - June 02, 2007	Non-Linear Computational Geometry	Annual Program Workshop
April 16 - 20, 2007	Complexity, Coding, and Communications	Annual Program Workshop
April 13 - 14, 2007	What is Algebraic Geometry?	Tutorial
March 05 - 09, 2007	Applications in Biology, Dynamics, and Statistics	Annual Program Workshop
January 16 - 20, 2007	Optimization and Control	Annual Program Workshop
January 12 - 13, 2007	Algebraic Algorithms in Optimization	Tutorial
October 23 - 27, 2006	Software for Algebraic Geometry	Annual Program Workshop
September 18 - 22, 2006	Algorithms in Algebraic Geometry	Annual Program Workshop
September 15 - 16, 2006	Algebraic Geometric Methods in Engineering	Tutorial

Long-Term Visitors

Name	Affiliation	Department	Visit
Elizabeth Allman	University of Alaska	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	01/07/07-04/07/07
Helene Barcelo	Arizona State University	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	02/03/07-03/31/07 05/07/07-06/01/07
Saugata Basu	Georgia Institute of Technology	School of Mathematics	04/04/07-06/30/07
Gian Besana	DePaul University	School of Computing	09/02/06-10/28/06
Víctor Blanco Izquierdo	University of Sevilla	Department of Statistics and Operations Research	01/11/07-04/21/07
Cristiano Bocci	Università di Milano	Department of Mathematics	01/10/07-03/10/07
Tristram Bogart	University of Washington	Department of Mathematics	01/08/07-03/20/07
Peter Bürgisser	Universität Paderborn	Institute of Mathematics	04/11/07-05/18/07
Enrico Carlini	Politecnico di Torino	Dipartimento di Matematica	01/10/07-02/16/07
Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	School of Mathematics	09/01/06-06/30/07
Wolfram Decker	Universität des Saarlandes		09/01/06-09/30/06
Alicia Dickenstein	University of Buenos Aires	Departamento de Matemática, FCEN	09/01/06-11/30/06 02/15/07-03/14/07
Sandra Di Rocco	Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)	Department of Mathematics	09/01/06-10/20/06 04/04/07-06/04/07
Kenneth Driessel	Iowa State University	Department of Mathematics	09/01/06-07/30/07
Mathias Drton	University of Chicago	Department of Statistics	01/08/07-03/22/07
David Eklund	Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)	Matematiska Institutionen	09/14/06-10/15/06
Ioannis Emiris	National University of Athens	Department of Informatics and Telecommunications	05/02/07-06/02/07
Nicholas Eriksson	Stanford University	Department of Statistics	02/14/07-03/16/07
Makan Fardad	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	08/26/06-06/30/07
Stephen Fienberg	Carnegie Mellon University	Department of Statistics	01/01/07-03/26/07
Ioannis Fotiou	Eidgenössische TH Zürich-Hönggerberg	Automatic Control Laboratory	01/10/07-02/16/07
Shuhong Gao	Clemson University	Department of Mathematical Sciences	09/03/06-12/20/06
Jonathan Hauenstein	University of Notre Dame	Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics	10/01/06-10/28/06
Patricia Hersh	Indiana University	Department of Mathematics	02/15/07-05/15/07
Serkan Hosten	San Francisco State University	Department of Mathematics	01/02/07-02/16/07
Evelyne Hubert	Institut National de Recherche en Informatique Automatique (INRIA)	Project Team GALAAD	09/01/06-06/30/07
Farhad Jafari	University of Wyoming	Department of Mathematics	09/01/06-06/30/07
Anders Jensen	Aarhus University	Institut for Matematiske Fag	09/06/06-06/30/07
Gabriela Jeronimo	University of Buenos Aires	Departamento de Matemáticas	09/04/06-10/31/06 04/15/07-06/09/07
Steve Kaliszewski	Arizona State University	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	01/07/07-06/30/07
Mordechai Katzman	University of Sheffield	Department of Pure Mathematics	01/10/07-05/15/07
Michael Kerber	Universität Kaiserslautern	BAD ADDRESS	02/19/07-05/11/07
Rimvydas Krasauskas	Vilnius State University	Department of Mathematics and Informatics	05/20/07-06/20/07
Teresa Krick	University of Buenos Aires	Departamento de Matemáticas	09/01/06-10/15/06
Jean Lasserre	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)	LAAS	01/07/07-02/03/07
Reinhard Laubenbacher	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Virginia Bioinformatics Institute	03/04/07-03/28/07
Niels Lauritzen	Aarhus University	Department of Mathematical Sciences	08/28/06-07/10/07
Gennady Lyubeznik	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	School of Mathematics	09/01/06-06/30/07
Diane Maclagan	Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey	Department of Mathematics	09/05/06-11/16/06
Thomas Markwig	Universität Kaiserslautern	Department of Mathematics	09/01/06-06/30/07
Laura Matusevich	Texas A & M University	Department of Mathematics	09/01/06-09/24/06
Richard Moeckel	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	School of Mathematics	09/01/06-06/30/07
Uwe Nagel	University of Kentucky	Department of Mathematics	09/01/06-06/01/07
Michael O'Sullivan	San Diego State University	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	09/15/06-10/26/06 02/21/07-03/30/07 04/12/07-05/11/07
Dmitrii Pasechnik	Nanyang Technological University	School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences	05/14/07-06/14/07
Chris Peterson	Colorado State University	Department of Mathematics	09/05/06-12/14/06
Sorin Popescu	The State University of New York	Department of Mathematics	09/01/06-11/20/06
Mihai Putinar	University of California, Santa Barbara	Department of Mathematics	01/07/07-03/24/07
Gregory Reid	University of Western Ontario	Department of Applied Mathematics	09/06/06-12/05/06
Victor Reiner	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	Department of Mathematics	09/01/06-06/30/07
John Rhodes	University of Alaska	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	01/07/07-04/07/07
Joel Roberts	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	School of Mathematics	09/01/06-06/30/07
Daniel Robertz	RWTH Aachen	Lehrstuhl B fur Mathematik	02/18/07-04/01/07
Marie Rognes	University of Oslo	Centre of Mathematics for Applications	01/10/07-06/30/07
J. Maurice Rojas	Texas A & M University	Department of Mathematics	04/11/07-05/30/07
Philipp Rostalski	Eidgenössische TH Zürich-Hönggerberg	Automatic Control Laboratory	01/02/07-02/19/07
Bjarke Roune	Aarhus University	Department of Computer Science	09/12/06-06/30/07
David Rusin	Northern Illinois University	Department of Mathematical Sciences	09/03/06-12/17/06
Frank-Olaf Schreyer	Universität des Saarlandes	Institut fur Mathematik und Informatik	09/05/06-10/15/06
Chehrzad Shakiban	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	Institute of Mathematics and its Applications	09/01/06-08/31/08
Aleksandra Slavković	The Pennsylvania State University	Department of Statistics	01/31/07-03/31/07
Milind Sohoni	Indian Institute of Technology	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	04/13/07-05/18/07
Andrew Sommese	University of Notre Dame	Department of Applied & Computational Mathematics & Statistics	09/01/06-12/16/06
Frank Sottile	Texas A & M University	Department of Mathematics	02/26/07-06/30/07
Steven Sperber	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	School of Mathematics	09/01/06-06/30/07
Seth Sullivant	Harvard University	Department of Mathematics	02/19/07-03/30/07
Rebecca Swanson	Indiana University	Department of Mathematics	02/22/07-03/31/07
Thorsten Theobald	Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt	Department of Computer Science and Mathematics	03/01/07-03/23/07
Rekha Thomas	University of Washington	Department of Mathematics	01/01/07-03/29/07
Enrique Tobis	University of Buenos Aires	Department of Computer Science and Mathematics	10/15/06-11/11/06
Jan Verschelde	University of Illinois, Chicago	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	09/06/06-11/30/06
Charles Wampler	General Motors Company	Research Laboratories	09/14/06-10/27/06
Mingsheng Wang	Chinese Academy of Sciences	Institute of Software	09/15/06-11/15/06
Wenyuan Wu	University of Western Ontario	Department of Applied Mathematics	09/06/06-12/05/06
Josephine Yu	University of California, Berkeley	Department of Mathematics	01/09/07-06/30/07
Zhonggang Zeng	Northeastern Illinois University	Department of Mathematics	09/18/06-10/27/06
Lihong Zhi	Chinese Academy of Sciences	Institute of Systems Sciences	01/11/07-03/04/07
Yan Zhuang	University of Illinois, Chicago	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	09/01/06-12/01/06