AMS Special Session: Solving Polynomial Systems
2004 Fall AMS Central Section Meeting

Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), October 23-24, 2004

Schedule of Talks

list of speakers in alphabetic order:

• Eugene Allgower (Colorado State University): Cellular Exclusion Algorithms for Polynomial Systems
• Dan Bates (University of Notre Dame): Advantages of parsing polynomials into straight-line programs
• Chris Hillar (University of California, Berkeley): Reconstructing dynamical systems from their zeta functions
• Marshall Hampton (University of Minnesota): On Smale's 6th Problem: A solution in the four-body case
• Serkan Hosten (San Francisco State University): The maximum likelihood degree and the maximum likelihood equations
• Amit Khetan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Resultants of Sparse Polynomials and Toric Vanishing Theorems
• Ilias Kotsireas (Wilfried Laurier University): Genetic Algorithms for zero-dimensional ideals
• Eric Lee (Northeastern University, Boston): Solving the Polynomial Equations of the Geometric Design Problem of the Spatial 3R Mechanisms
• Tien-Yien Li (Michigan State University): Is the attained solution isolated?
• Marc Moreno Maza (University of Western Ontario): On Polynomial Gcds over Direct Products of Fields Given by Towers of Simple Extensions
• Koji Ouchi (Texas A & M University): An exact toric resultant-based RUR approach for solving polynomial systems
• Greg Reid (University of Western Ontario): Numerical Jet Geometry of Partial Differential Equations
• Andrew Sommese (University of Notre Dame): Homotopies to Compute Intersections of Solution Components of Polynomial Systems
• Ivan Soprounov (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Toric residues and partitions of polytopes
• Hai-Jun Su (University of California, Irvine): Using Polynomial Homotopy to Mechanism Synthesis
• Charles Wampler (General Motors R&D Labs): Solving Polynomial Systems by Intersecting Subsystems
• Yusong Wang (University of Illinois at Chicago): Applying Pieri Homotopies to compute dynamic output feedback laws
• Wenyuan Wu (University of Western Ontario): Determination of the dimension of a variety and some applications
• Zhonggang Zeng (Northeastern Illinois University): Approximate GCD and Factorization of Multivariate Polynomials
• Hong Zhang (Illinois Institute of Technology): Solving Multivariate Polynomial Systems
• Ailing Zhao (University of Illinois at Chicago): Newton's Method with Deflation for Isolated Singularities of Polynomial Systems
• Wenqin Zhou (University of Western Ontario): An Algebraic Method for Analyzing Dynamic Systems

Organizers: Anton Leykin and Jan Verschelde