SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry 2013

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Contents 1 Place and dates 2 Organizers 3 Plenary speakers 4 Minisymposia 5 Local information

Place and dates

• Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, August 1--4, 2013
• SIAM official webpage

Organizers

• Program Chairs:
  • Alicia Dickenstein
  • Anton Leykin

• Program Committee:
  • Henry Cohn
  • Ioannis Emiris
  • Robert Ghrist
  • Gilles Gnacadja
  • Tanja Lange
  • Reinhard Laubenbacher
  • Peter Olver
  • Chris Peterson (one of the local organizers)
  • Bernd Sturmfels
  • Rekha Thomas

• Local organizers:
  • Dan Bates (CSU)
  • Renzo Cavalieri (CSU)
  • Alexander Hulpke (CSU)
  • Chris Peterson (CSU)
  • Rachel Pries (CSU)
  • Amelia Taylor (Colorado College)

Plenary speakers

• Yuliy Baryshnikov
• Greg Blekherman
• Sandra di Rocco
• Olga Holtz
• Rei Inoue
• Damien Stehlé
• Ravi Vakil
• Carsten Wiuf

Minisymposia

• Please, e-mail the program chairs with your ideas and informal proposals.
• A list of minisymposia suggested so far:
  • Algebraic geometry, moment problems and applications. Organizer: Bernard Mourrain (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France).
  • Algorithms in Real Algebraic Geometry and its Applications. Organizers: Mohab Safey El Din and Elias Tsigaridas (Paris 6/INRIA, France).
  • Applications to image processing and shape analysis. Organizers: Irina Kogan (NCSU, Raleigh, USA) and Facundo Memoli (University of Adelaide, Australia).
  • Combinatorial Algebraic Statistics. Organizers: Alexander Engstrom and Patrik Noren (Aalto University, Finland).
  • Computational aspects of moving frames. Organizers: Evelyne Hubert (INRIA Méditerranée, France) and Francis Valiquette (Dalhousie University).
  • Computing Sparse Approximate Models from Values. Organizers: Mark Giesbrecht (U Waterloo, Canada), Erich Kaltofen (NCSU, Raleigh, USA), and Wen-shin Lee (University of Antwerp, Belgium).
  • Exact Certificates in Nonlinear Global Optimization. Organizers: Erich Kaltofen (NCSU, Raleigh, USA), Mohab Safey El Din (Paris 6/INRIA, France), and Lihong Zhi (Chinese Academy of Sciences).
  • Exact Certificates in Nonlinear Global Optimization (2013). Organizers: Erich Kaltofen (NCSU, Raleigh, USA), Mohab Safey El Din (Paris 6/INRIA, France), and Lihong Zhi (Chinese Academy of Sciences).
  • Exact Linear Algebra Algorithms. Organizers: Martin Albrecht (Paris 6, France), Pascal Giorgi (University Montpellier 2, France), and Clement Pernet (Université Joseph Fourier, France).
  • Geometry of Statistical Models. Organizers: Andrew Critch and Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley, USA)
  • Identifiability Problems in Biology and Statistics. Organizers: Nicolette Meshkat (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA), Seth Sullivant (NCSU, Raleigh, USA).
  • Real algebraic geometry and optimization. Organizers: Grigory Blekherman (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), Cordian Riener (Univ. Konstanz, Germany), and Thorsten Theobald (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany).
  • Singular Learning Theory. Organizer: Mathias Drton (U Washington, Seattle, USA).
  • Symbolic Combinatorics (2013). Organizers: Manuel Kauers (RISC, Austria) and Michael Singer (NCSU, Raleigh, USA).
  • Tensor Networks. Organizer: Jason Morton (Penn State U, USA).

• A call for official proposal submissions will be issued by SIAM in the Fall 2012.

Local information

Lectures and minisymposia will be in the Clark building at Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, CO.

• Travel: Participants will find it most convenient to fly into Denver (DEN) and take a SuperShuttle van to their hotels. Van reservations can be made here.

• Hotels:

• Food: