Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Day

Current as of Saturday, January 26, 2019 03:30:05

Joint Mathematics Meetings

• Baltimore Convention Center, Hilton Baltimore, and Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, MD
• January 16-19, 2019 (Wednesday - Saturday)
• Meeting #1145

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Hortensia Soto, MAA hortensia.soto@unco.edu

Monday January 14, 2019

• Monday January 14, 2019, 8:15 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  AMS Short Course on Sum of Squares: Theory and Applications, Part I
  Holiday Ballroom 1-3, 2nd Floor, Hilton
  Organizers:
  Pablo A Parrilo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology parrilo@mit.edu
  Rekha R Thomas, University of Washington rrthomas@uw.edu
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    Introduction
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Overview of SOS polynomials.
    Grigoriy Blekherman*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:40 a.m.
    The geometry of spectrahedra.
    Cynthia Vinzant*, North Carolina State University
  • 12:20 p.m.
    Lunch
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Engineering applications of SOS polynomials.
    Georgina Hall*, INSEAD
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Problem session
• Monday January 14, 2019, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  AMS Short Course Reception
  Holiday Ballroom 1-3, 2nd Floor, Hilton