Minisymposia at the 2011 SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry

From SIAG-AG

• Advances in Numerical Algebraic Geometry. Organizer: Jonathan Hauenstein (Texas A&M U)

• Algebraic aspects of quantum computing. Organizers: Eric Rowell (Texas A&M U) and Zhenghan Wang (Microsoft Research)

• Algebraic Complexity. Organizer: Eric Schost (U Western Ontario) and Mohab Safey (Paris 6)

• Algebraic Geometry Applied to Celestial Mechanics. Organizer: Daniele Mortari (Texas A&M U)

• Algebraic Geometry in Convex Optimization. Organizers: Joao Gouveia (U Washington), Raman Sanyal (UC Berkeley), Rekha Thomas (U Washington)

• Algebraic Geometry of Tensor Decompositions and its Applications. Organizer: Lek-Heng Lim (U Chicago)

• Algebraic Geometry, Moments and Optimization. Organizer: Jean Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS)

• Algorithms in Real Algebraic Geometry and their Applications. Organizer: Hoon Hong (North Carolina) and Mohab Safey (Paris 6)

• Applications in Mathematical Biology. Organizers: Elizabeth Allman (U Alaska), David Haws (U Kentucky), Brandilyn Stigler (Southern Methodist U)

• Applications of Algebraic Geometry to Coding Theory and Cryptography. Organizers: Iwan Duursma (UIUC) and Alice Silverberg (UC Irvine)

• Application of Algebraic Geometry to Image and Signal Processing. Organizers: Irina Kogan (North Carolina State U), Mireille Boutin (Purdue U)

• Applications of Numerical Algebraic Geometry. Organizers: Dan Bates (Colorado State U), Anton Leykin (Georgia Tech)

• Approximate Algebraic Methods. Organizer: Tor Dokken (SINTEF)

• Arithmetic Aspects of Numerical Solving. Organizer: J. Maurice Rojas (Texas A&M U)

• Biochemical Reaction Networks. Organizers: Manoj Gopalkrishnan, Casian Pantea (U Wisconsin), Anne Shiu (Duke U)

• Categorical Data: Contingency Tables and Network Structures. Organizers: Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon U), Alessandro Rinaldo (Carnegie Mellon U)

• Combinatorial Structures in Algebraic Statistics. Organizers: Thomas Kahle (Mittag-Leffler) Alex Engstrom (UC Berkeley)

• Exact Linear Algebra. Organizers: Jean-Guillaume Dumas (U Grenoble), Nathalie Revol (ENS Lyon), and Jean-Charles Faugere (Paris 6)

• Graphical Statistical Models. Organizer: Mathias Drton (U Chicago)

• Infinite-dimensional systems of polynomial equations with symmetry. Organizer: Jan Draisma (Eindhoven)

• Interactions Among Algebraic Geometry, Geometric Modeling, and Approximation Theory. Organizers: Luis D. Garcia-Puente (Sam Houston State University) and Tatyana Sorokina (Towson University)

• Locally Refined Splines, Spline Space and Isogeometric Analysis. Organizer: Tor Dokken (SINTEF, Oslo)

• Persistent homology: applications, computation, recent developments. Organizers: Paul Bendich (Duke U), Dmitriy Morozov (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

• Persistent homotopy: point clouds, filtrations and homotopies. Organizer: Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson (Stanford U)

• Riemann Theta Functions. Organizers: Bernard DeConinck (U Washington), Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley), Christopher Swierczewski (U Washington)

• Sparse Statistics and Optimization. Organizers: Venkat Chandrasekaran (MIT) and Pablo Parrilo (MIT)

• Subdivision Methods in Numerical Algebraic Geometry. Organizers: Michael Burr (Fordham U), Chee Yap (New York U)

• Symbolic Combinatorics. Organizers: Manuel Kauers (RISC Linz), Michael Singer (North Carolina State U)

• Tropical Geometry. Organizer: Josephine Yu (Georgia Tech)