Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, April 13, 2005 08:32:19

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Atlanta, GA, January 5-8, 2005
Meeting #1003

• Wednesday January 5, 2005, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on Tropical Geometry, I
  Organizers:
  Michael Develin, University of California Berkeley develin@math.berkeley.edu
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley bernd@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Introduction to Tropical Mathematics.
    Mike Develin*, American Institute of Mathematics
    (1003-05-263)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Perturbation of matrix eigenvalues and min-plus algebra.
    Marianne Akian, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
    Ravindra Bapat, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi
    Stephane Gaubert*, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
    (1003-15-1312)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:15 p.m.
    On the strong regularity of matrices in max-algebra.
    Peter Butkovic*, University of Birmingham (England)
    (1003-15-735)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Tropical Compactrifications.
    Jenia Tevelev*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1003-14-1553)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Computing Groebner Fans.
    Komei Fukuda, ETH, Zurich
    Anders Jensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    Rekha Thomas*, University of Washington
    (1003-13-1285)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Computing tropical varieties.
    Anders Nedergaard Jensen*, University of Aarhus
    Bernd Sturmfels, University of California
    Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington
    (1003-52-1428)
• Thursday January 6, 2005, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on Tropical Geometry, II
  Organizers:
  Michael Develin, University of California Berkeley develin@math.berkeley.edu
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley bernd@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Factorization of Polynomials over the Tropical Semiring.
    Fred H. Roush*, Alabama State University
    K. H. Kim, Alabama State University
    (1003-12-1723)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The Positive Bergman Complex of an Oriented Matroid.
    Lauren K. Williams*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Federico Ardila, Microsoft Research
    Caroline Klivans, University of Chicago
    (1003-05-776)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Geometry behind the split decomposition of finite metrics.
    Hirai Hiroshi*, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
    (1003-05-816)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Tropical Linear Spaces.
    David E Speyer*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1003-05-1358)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tropical geometry for biology.
    Lior Pachter*, U.C. Berkeley
    Bernd Sturmfels, U.C. Berkeley
    (1003-92-1537)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tropical Polytopes in General Position.
    Michael Joswig*, TU-Berlin
    (1003-52-1715)