Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, January 17, 2015 03:30:12
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and Grand Hyatt San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
January 10-13, 2015 (Saturday - Tuesday)
Meeting #1106
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Applied Discrete Mathematics (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
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Sunday January 11, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Applied Discrete Mathematics (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), I
Room 007B, Convention Center
Organizers:
Heather Harrington, University of Oxford
Mohamed Omar, Harvey Mudd College
Matthew Wright, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota mlwright@ima.umn.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Algebra and Geometry in Computer Vision.
Rekha R Thomas*, University of Washington
(1106-14-1531) -
9:00 a.m.
Persistent homology analysis of brain artery trees.
Paul Bendich, Duke University
J. S. Marron, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ezra Miller*, Duke University
Alex Pieloch, Duke University
Sean Skwerer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(1106-62-2209) -
9:30 a.m.
Geometric Approach to Learning Bayesian Networks.
David Haws*, IBM T.J. Watson Research
(1106-52-1932) -
10:00 a.m.
Algebra on hypergraphs with applications to statistics.
Sonja Petrovic*, Illinois Institute of Technology
(1106-62-1759) -
10:30 a.m.
Catenary Degrees of Elements in Numerical Monoids.
Christopher ONeill*, Texas A&M University
Vadim Ponomarenko, San Diego State University
Reuben Tate, University of Hawaii Hilo
Gautam Webb, Colorado College
(1106-08-768) -
11:00 a.m.
Computational applications of Helly-type Theorems.
Nina Amenta*, University of California, Davis
(1106-52-2053) -
11:30 a.m.
Applying Applied Math to Algebra.
Persi Diaconis*, Stanford University
(1106-00-419)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday January 11, 2015, 1:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Applied Discrete Mathematics (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), II
Room 007B, Convention Center
Organizers:
Heather Harrington, University of Oxford
Mohamed Omar, Harvey Mudd College
Matthew Wright, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota mlwright@ima.umn.edu
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1:00 p.m.
Using Rational Knots and Links to Model Difference Topology Experiments.
Candice Price*, United States Military Academy, West Point
(1106-92-2274) -
1:30 p.m.
New Algebraic Relaxations for Polynomial and Discrete Optimization.
Amir Ali Ahmadi*, Dept. of Operations Research and Financial Eng., Princeton University
Anirudha Majumdar, MIT
(1106-90-731) -
2:00 p.m.
Biologically inspired real-world applications of discrete mathematics.
Christopher J Hillar*, UC Berkeley
(1106-92-2024) -
2:30 p.m.
Using Phylogenetic Invariants in Coalescent-Based Methods.
Ruth Davidson*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Siavash Mirarab, University of Texas-Austin
Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
(1106-92-1846) -
3:00 p.m.
Numerical computation of Newton polytopes.
Frank Sottile*, Texas A&M University
Jonathan D Hauenstein, University of Notre Dame
(1106-52-646)
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1:00 p.m.