AMS/SIAM Special Session:
Symbolic-Numeric Computation and Applications
on Sunday 15 January 2006 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas, January 12-15, 2006

tentative list of speakers in alphabetic order:

• 8:00 AM
  Daniel J. Bates (University of Notre Dame): Adaptive Precision in Homotopy Continuation
• 8:30 AM
  Zhewei Dai (Alma College): Local Regularization of the Autoconvolution Problem
• 9:00 AM
  Marshall Hampton (University of Minnesota at Duluth): Stationary Configurations of Four Vortices
• 9:30 AM
  Erich Kaltofen (North Carolina State University): Approximate Factorization of Complex Multivariate Polynomials
• 10:00 AM
  Tsung-Lin Lee (Michigan State University): Computing the Numerical Rank of Large Matrices
• 10:30 AM
  Wen-Shin Lee (University of Antwerp): Symbolic-Numeric Sparse Polynomial Interpolation
• 1:00 PM
  Anton Leykin (University of Illinois at Chicago): Higher-order deflation of polynomial systems
• 1:30 PM
  Ye Lu (University of Notre Dame): Finding All Real Solutions of Polynomial Systems
• 2:00 PM
  John P. May (University of Waterloo): A Comparison of Heuristics for Solving Problems in Approximate Polynomial Algebra
• 2:30 PM
  Scott R. Pope (North Carolina State University): Nearest Multivariate System with Given Root Multiplicities
• 3:00 PM
  Greg Reid (University of Western Ontario): Characterization and computation of nearby involutive polynomial and differential systems
• 3:30 PM
  Andrew J. Sommese (University of Notre Dame): Exceptional Sets and Fiber Products
• 4:00 PM
  Wenyuan Wu (University of Western Ontario): Differential elimination for approximate PDE systems
• 4:30 PM
  Zhonggang Zeng (Northeastern Illinois University): Sensitivity of Algebraic Computation with Approximate Data
• 5:00 PM
  Ailing Zhao (University of Illinois at Chicago): Computing Isolated Singularities by Newton's Method with Deflation

Organizers: Agnes Szanto, Jan Verschelde, and Zhonggang Zeng.