9:00 a.m. Exact goodness-of-fit tests for Stochastic Block Models. Nikita Alexeev, The George Washington University
Vishesh Karwa*, Harvard University
Debdeep Pati, Florida State University
Sonja Petrović, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Mateja Raič, University of Illinois, Chicago
Liam Solus, Institute of Science and Technology Austria and MIT
Dane Wilburne, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Robert Williams, Texas A & M University
Bowei Yan, The University of Texas at Austin
(1125-62-1717)
2:00 p.m. Maximum Likelihood Degree of Toric Varieties and Discriminants. Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University Mathematics Department
Carlos Amendola, Technische Universitaet, Berlin
Nathan Bliss, University of Illinois at Chicago
Isaac Burke, National University of Ireland, Galway
Courtney Gibbons, Hamilton College
Martin Helmer, University of California, Berkeley
Evan Nash, Ohio State University
Jose Rodriguez, University of Chicago
Daniel Smolkin, University of Utah
(1125-14-2238)
3:30 p.m. Convexity in treespaces. Bo Lin, University of California, Berkeley
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
XIaoxian Tang, University of Bremen
Ruriko Yoshida*, University of Kentucky
(1125-05-58)