AMS-SIAM Special Session on 
 Applications of Algebraic Geometry

Saturday 16 January 2010

Morning
 8:00- 8:20  Gunnar Carlsson, "Algebraic aspects of persistence"
 8:30- 8:50  Vin de Silva,    "From Isomap to Persistence: nonlinear dimensionality reduction with circular coordinates"
 9:00- 9:20  Henry Adams,     "Topological data analysis and the nudged elastic band method"
 9:30- 9:50  Daniel Bates,    "Recovering exact results from numerical computation in algebraic geometry"
10:00-10:20  Jon Hauenstein,  "Computing Hilbert functions using dual bases"
10:50-10:50  Andrew Sommese,  "Zebra Fish, Tumor Growth, and Algebraic Geometry"

Afternoon
 1:00- 1:20  Erich Kaltofen,   "ArtinProver: a truly hybrid symbolic/numeric global optimization algorithm"
 1:30- 1:50  Zach Teiter,      "Experimentation at the Frontiers of Reality in Schubert Calculus"  
 2:00- 2:20  Reinhard Laubenbacher, "Nested canalyzing polynomial dynamical systems"
 2:30- 2:50  Anne Shiu,        "Computing siphons in biochemical reaction systems"
 3:00- 3:20  Valerie Hower,    "A persistence tree-based method for calling peaks in ChIP-seq protein binding analysis"
 3:30- 3:50  Seth Sullivant,   "Algebraic geometry of Gaussian graphical models"
 4:00- 4:20  Mathias Drton,    "On a parametrization of positive semidefinite matrices with zeros"
 4:30- 4:50  Jesus De Loera,   "Algebraic-Geometric Techniques in Discrete Optimization"
 5:00- 5:20  Pablo Parrilo,    "The convex algebraic geometry of rank minimization"
 5:30- 5:50  Bernd Sturmfels,  "Orbitopes"