Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 23, 2010 00:39:29

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Francisco, CA, January 13-16, 2010 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1056

• Saturday January 16, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-SIAM Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 3005, 3rd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University sottile@math.tamu.edu
  Luis Garcia-Puente, Sam Houston State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Algebraic aspects of persistence.
    Gunnar Erik Carlsson*, Stanford University
    (1056-55-1638)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    From Isomap to Persistence: nonlinear dimensionality reduction with circular coordinates.
    Vin de Silva*, Pomona College
    (1056-68-2149)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Topological data analysis and the nudged elastic band method.
    Henry Adams*, Stanford University
    Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University
    Atanas Atanasov, Columbia University
    (1056-55-2063)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Recovering exact results from numerical computation in algebraic geometry.
    Daniel J. Bates*, Colorado State University
    Jonathan D. Hauenstein, Fields Institute/Texas A&M
    Tim McCoy, University of Notre Dame
    Chris Peterson, Colorado State University
    Andrew J. Sommese, University of Notre Dame
    (1056-14-1120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computing Hilbert functions using dual bases.
    Jonathan D Hauenstein*, Fields Institute/Texas A&M
    (1056-14-1178)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Zebra Fish, Tumor Growth, and Algebraic Geometry.
    Andrew Sommese*, University of Notre Dame
    (1056-14-2079)
• Saturday January 16, 2010, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-SIAM Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 3005, 3rd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University sottile@math.tamu.edu
  Luis Garcia-Puente, Sam Houston State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    {\itshape ArtinProver:} a truly hybrid symbolic/numeric global optimization algorithm.
    Erich Leo Kaltofen*, North Carolina State University
    Zhengfeng Yang, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
    Lihong Zhi, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beijing, China
    (1056-14-1157)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Experimentation at the Frontiers of Reality in Schubert Calculus.
    Chris Hillar, MSRI
    Luis García-Puente, Sam Houston State University
    Abraham Martín del Campo, Texas A&M University
    James Ruffo, SUNY Oneonta
    Stephen L. Johnson, Texas A&M University
    Zach Teitler*, Texas A&M University
    Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
    (1056-14-396)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Nested canalyzing polynomial dynamical systems.
    Reinhard Laubenbacher*, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
    David Murragarra, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    (1056-92-1524)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Computing siphons in biochemical reaction systems.
    Anne Shiu*, University of California Berkeley
    Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley
    (1056-13-2006)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A persistence tree-based method for calling peaks in ChIP-seq protein binding analysis.
    Valerie Hower*, University of California, Berkeley
    Lior Pachter, University of California, Berkeley
    (1056-92-1506)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Algebraic geometry of Gaussian graphical models.
    Seth Sullivant*, North Carolina State University
    (1056-14-1155)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On a parametrization of positive semidefinite matrices with zeros.
    Mathias Drton*, University of Chicago
    Josephine Yu, MSRI, Berkeley, CA
    (1056-15-1159)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The convex algebraic geometry of rank minimization.
    Pablo A Parrilo*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1056-90-2136)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Orbitopes.
    Raman Sanyal, UC Berkeley
    Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
    Bernd Sturmfels*, UC Berkeley
    (1056-14-424)