MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2009

Usually, we meet on Thursdays in SEO 612 at 11AM.
  1. Thu 27 Aug: organizational meeting.
  2. Thu 3 Sep: Jan Verschelde on giftwrapping for tropisms.
  3. Thu 10 Sep: Sonja Petrovic on the likelihood equations.
  4. Thu 17 Sep: Yun Guan on local intrisic coordinates.
  5. Thu 24 Sep: no meeting.
  6. Thu 1 Oct: Olga Kashcheyeva on defining valuations through generating sequences
  7. Thu 8 Oct: Olga Kashcheyeva on defining valuations through generating sequences (continued from last week)
  8. Thu 15 Oct: no meeting.
  9. Thu 22 Oct: Danko Adrovic on Pretropisms via the Cayley trick.
  10. Thu 29 Oct: no meeting.
  11. Thu 5 Nov: Jan Verschelde on Sampling algebraic sets using local intrinsic coordinates.
  12. Thu 12 Nov: Sonja Petrovic on Markov degrees of hierarchical models arising from Betti numbers of Stanley-Reisner ideals.

Seminars organized in previous semesters: