MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2010

Usually, we meet on Thursdays in SEO 1227 at 10AM.
  1. Thu 26 Aug: organizational meeting, we decided to move the time from 11AM to 10AM.
  2. Thu 2 Sep: Danko Adrovic on the Cayley embedding for pretropisms applied to the cyclic n-roots problem.
  3. Thu 9 Sep: Jan Verschelde on quality up for polynomial continuation.
  4. Thu 16 Sep: Sonja Petrovic on A computational algebraic geometry package for computing with graphical models.
  5. Thu 23 Sep: Elizabeth Gross on The maximum likelihood degree for a random effects model.
  6. Thu 30 Sep: Jan Verschelde on Polynomial homotopies and Macaulay 2.
  7. Thu 7 Oct: Luke Oeding (University of Florence) on Toward a salmon conjecture.
  8. Thu 14 Oct: Sonja Petrovic on Phylogenetic Algebraic Geometry.
  9. Thu 21 Oct: Shmuel Friedland on 4x4x4 tensors of border rank 4 at most.
  10. Thu 28 Oct: Genady Yoffe on multiprecision path tracking on multicore workstations.
  11. Thu 4 Nov: Shmuel Friedland on 4x4x4 tensors of border rank 4 at most.
  12. Thu 11 Nov: Jan Verschelde on quality up in polynomial homotopy continuation.
  13. Thu 2 Dec: Danko Adrovic on Tropical Algebraic Geometry: Lifting Points of a Subvariety.

Seminars organized in previous semesters: