MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2013

Usually, we meet on Thursdays in SEO 1227 at 4PM.
  1. Thu 29 Aug: organizational meeting.
  2. Thu 5 Sep: Jan Verschelde on Polyhedral methods for space curves exploiting symmetry applied to the cyclic n-roots problem.
  3. Thu 26 Sep: Xiangcheng Yu on evaluating and differentiating polynomials in factored form for a massively parallel algorithm on graphics processing units.
  4. Thu 2 Oct: Marc Moreno Maza (University of Western Ontario) on Computing the real solutions of polynomial systems with the RegularChains library in Maple.
  5. Thu 24 Oct: Danko Adrovic on Solving polynomial systems with Puiseux series - part two.
  6. Thu 7 Nov: Jeff Sommars on Implementing Passare and Nilsson's Coamoeba Algorithm.
  7. Thu 21 Nov: Nathan Bliss on Introduction to Tropical Algebraic Geometry.
  8. Fri 13 Dec: Marie-Francoise Roy (University of Rennes I) on Elementary recursive bounds for Hilbert's 17th problem.

Seminars organized in previous semesters: