Annual Program Seminar Series

September 13, 2006 - June 20, 2007

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Overview

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Schedule

Wednesday, September 13, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Solving polynomial systems by homotopy continuation Andrew Sommese (University of Notre Dame)	Lind 409

Monday, September 25, 2006
			Video
9:30 am - 10:30 am	Semigraphoids, permutohedra, and mice Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley)	Lind 305
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Assymptotic ideal theory and parametrized rational varieties David Eisenbud (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute)	Lind 305

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Approximating singular solutions of polynomial systems Anton Leykin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Lind 305

Wednesday, October 04, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	An experimental approach to numerical Godeaux surfaces Frank-Olaf Schreyer (Universität des Saarlandes)	Lind 409

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Examples of exact results from inexact methods Chris Peterson (Colorado State University)	Lind 305

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	A numerical approach toward approximate algebraic computation Zhonggang Zeng (Northeastern Illinois University)	Lind 409

Wednesday, November 01, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Equations and degenerations of the moduli space of genus zero stable curves with n marked points Diane Maclagan (Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey )	Lind 409

Thursday, November 02, 2006
			Video
10:10 am - 11:00 am	Computer assisted mathematics: Tools and tactics for solving hard problems Daniel Lichtblau (Wolfram Research, Inc.)	Lind 409

Wednesday, November 08, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Excess intersection theory and homotopy continuation methods Sorin Popescu (The State University of New York)	Lind 409

Monday, November 13, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Complexity measures Uwe Nagel (University of Kentucky)	Lind 409

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Tropical celestial mechanics Richard Moeckel (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Lind 409
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm	On approximate triangular decompositions in dimension zero Wenyuan Wu (University of Western Ontario)	Lind 409

Monday, November 20, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Computations in classical invariant theory of binary forms Chehrzad Shakiban (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Lind 409

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Tropical discriminants Alicia Dickenstein (University of Buenos Aires)	Lind 409

Wednesday, December 06, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Gröbner walks and Scarf homotopies Niels Lauritzen (Aarhus University)	Lind 409

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Some algorithmic aspects of local cohomology Gennady Lyubeznik (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Lind 409

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Algorithms in algebraic analysis Anton Leykin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Lind 409

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
			Video
11:15 am	Moments of positivity Mihai Putinar (University of California)	Lind 409

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	SDP and LP-relaxations in polynomial optimization: The power of real algebraic geometry Jean Lasserre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))	Lind 305

Wednesday, February 07, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	An introduction to algebraic statistics Serkan Hosten (San Francisco State University)	Keller 3-180

Wednesday, February 14, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Statistical formulation of issues associated with multi-way contingency tables and the links to algebraic geometry Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie-Mellon University)	Lind 305

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Rational and algebraic invariants of a group action Evelyne Hubert (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique Automatique (INRIA))	Keller 3-180

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Moving frames in classical invariant theory and computer vision Peter Olver (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180

Wednesday, March 14, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Counting monomials Mordechai Katzman (University of Sheffield)	Keller 3-180

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Symmetries in SDP-based relaxations for constrained polynomial optimization Thorsten Theobald (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)	Keller 3-180

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Algebraic geometry of Gaussian Bayesian networks Seth Sullivant (Harvard University)	Keller 3-180

Wednesday, April 04, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Optimal fewnomial bounds from Gale dual polynomial systems Frank Sottile (Texas A & M University)	Keller 3-180

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Combinatorial complexity in o-minimal geometry Saugata Basu (Georgia Institute of Technology)	Keller 3-180

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	On sparse polynomial systems, mixed volumes and condition numbers Gregorio Malajovich (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)	Lind 305

Thursday, April 26, 2007
			Video
10:15 am - 11:10 am	Random polynomial systems and balanced metrics on toric varieties J. Maurice Rojas (Texas A & M University)	Keller 3-180

Wednesday, May 02, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	A homological obstruction to weak order on trees Patricia Hersh (Indiana University)	Lind 409

Wednesday, May 09, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Schubert combinatorics and geometry Alexander Yong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)	Lind 409

Tuesday, May 15, 2007
			Video
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm	Discriminants, dual varieties and toric geometry Sandra Di Rocco (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))	Lind 305

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Average volume, curvatures, and Euler characteristic of random real algebraic varieties Peter Bürgisser (Universität Paderborn)	Lind 409

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	On the Newton polytope of specialized resultants Ioannis Emiris (National University of Athens)	Lind 409

Wednesday, June 06, 2007
			Video
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	A symbolic approach to sparse elimination Gabriela Jeronimo (University of Buenos Aires)	Lind 305

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
			Video
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IMA program on applications of algebraic geometry Frank Sottile (Texas A & M University)	Lind 305

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Saugata Basu	School of Mathematics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Peter Bürgisser	Institute of Mathematics	Universität Paderborn
Alicia Dickenstein	Departamento de Matemática, FCEN	University of Buenos Aires
Sandra Di Rocco	Department of Mathematics	Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
David Eisenbud		Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Ioannis Emiris	Department of Informatics and Telecommunications	National University of Athens
Stephen Fienberg	Department of Statistics	Carnegie-Mellon University
Patricia Hersh	Department of Mathematics	Indiana University
Serkan Hosten	Department of Mathematics	San Francisco State University
Evelyne Hubert	Project Team GALAAD	Institut National de Recherche en Informatique Automatique (INRIA)
Gabriela Jeronimo	Departamento de Matemáticas	University of Buenos Aires
Mordechai Katzman	Department of Pure Mathematics	University of Sheffield
Jean Lasserre	LAAS	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Niels Lauritzen	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Aarhus University
Anton Leykin	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Daniel Lichtblau		Wolfram Research, Inc.
Gennady Lyubeznik	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Diane Maclagan	Department of Mathematics	Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey
Gregorio Malajovich	Departamento de Matematica Aplicada	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Richard Moeckel	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Uwe Nagel	Department of Mathematics	University of Kentucky
Peter Olver	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Chris Peterson	Department of Mathematics	Colorado State University
Sorin Popescu	Department of Mathematics	The State University of New York
Mihai Putinar	Department of Mathematics	University of California
J. Maurice Rojas	Department of Mathematics	Texas A & M University
Frank-Olaf Schreyer	Institut fur Mathematik und Informatik	Universität des Saarlandes
Chehrzad Shakiban	Institute of Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Andrew Sommese	Department of Applied & Computational Mathematics & Statistics	University of Notre Dame
Frank Sottile	Department of Mathematics	Texas A & M University
Bernd Sturmfels	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Berkeley
Seth Sullivant	Department of Mathematics	Harvard University
Thorsten Theobald		Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Wenyuan Wu	Department of Applied Mathematics	University of Western Ontario
Alexander Yong		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zhonggang Zeng	Department of Mathematics	Northeastern Illinois University