Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Unitobler, F-105
53 seats, 70m^2
Date: Tuesday, 09/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS148, part 1: Algebraic neural coding
Location: Unitobler, F-105
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Algebraic Neural Coding

Chair(s): Nora Youngs (Colby College), Zvi Rosen (Florida Atlantic University, United States of America)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Flexible Motifs in Threshold-Linear Networks

Carina Curto
The Pennsylvania State University

 

Robust Motifs in Threshold-Linear Networks

Katherine Morrison
University of Northern Colorado

 

An Algebraic Perceptron and the Neural Ideals

Vladimir Itskov
The Pennsylvania State University

 

Properties of Hyperplane Neural Codes

Alexander Kunin
The Pennsylvania State University

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS152: Stochastic chemical reaction networks
Location: Unitobler, F-105
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Stochastic chemical reaction networks

Chair(s): Michael Felix Adamer (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Piecewise linear Lyapunov functions for stochastic reaction networks

Daniele Cappelletti
ETHZ

 

Robust stochastic control of reaction networks

Tomislav Plesa
Imperial College

 

One-dimensional stochastic reaction networks: Classification and dynamics

Chuang Xu
U Copenhagen

 

The geometry and dynamics of spatial networks subject external noise

Michael Adamer
University of Oxford


Date: Wednesday, 10/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS148, part 2: Algebraic neural coding
Location: Unitobler, F-105
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Algebraic Neural Coding

Chair(s): Nora Youngs (Colby College), Zvi Rosen (Florida Atlantic University, United States of America)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Sunflowers of Convex Sets and New Obstructions to Convexity

R. Amzi Jeffs
University of Washington

 

Convex Codes and Oriented Matroids

Caitlin Lienkaemper
The Pennsylvania State University

 

Sufficient Conditions for 1- and 2- Inductively Pierced Codes

Nida Obatake
Texas A&M University

 

Progress Toward a Classification of Inductively Pierced Codes via Polyhedra

Robert Davis
Harvey Mudd College

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS183, part 1: Polyhedral geometry methods for biochemical reaction networks
Location: Unitobler, F-105
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Polyhedral geometry methods for biochemical reaction networks

Chair(s): Elisenda Feliu (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Stefan Müller (University of Vienna)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Endotactic Networks and Toric Differential Inclusions

Gheorghe Craciun, Abhishek Deshpande
University of Wisconsin (Madison)

 

Approximating Convex Hulls of Curves by Polytopes

Nidhi Kaihnsa
MPI Leipzig

 

Multistationarity conditions in a network motif describing ERK activation

Carsten Conradi
HTW Berlin

 

Oscillations in a mixed phosphorylation mechanism

Maya Mincheva
Northern Illinois University


Date: Thursday, 11/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS174, part 1: Algebraic aspects of biochemical reaction networks
Location: Unitobler, F-105
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Algebraic aspects of biochemical reaction networks

Chair(s): Alicia Dickenstein (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Georg Regensburger (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Network models and polynomial positivity

Murad Banaji
Middlesex University, London

 

Some approaches to understand the parameter region of multistationarity

Elisenda Feliu
University of Copenhagen

 

On the bijectivity of families of exponential maps

Stefan Müller
University of Vienna

 

An algebraic approach to detecting bistability in chemical reaction networks

Angélica Torres
University of Copenhagen

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS183, part 2: Polyhedral geometry methods for biochemical reaction networks
Location: Unitobler, F-105
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Polyhedral geometry methods for biochemical reaction networks

Chair(s): Elisenda Feliu (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Stefan Müller (University of Vienna)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Algorithmic Aspects of Computing Tropical Prevarieties Parametrically

Andreas Weber
University of Bonn

 

Empiric investigations on the number and structure of solution polytopes for tropical equilibration problems arising from biological networks

Christoph Lüders
University of Bonn

 

Perturbations of exponents of exponential maps: robustness of bijectivity

Georg Regensburger
Johannes Kepler University Linz

 

Weakly reversible mass-action systems with infinitely many positive steady states

Balázs Boros
University of Vienna


Date: Friday, 12/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS174, part 2: Algebraic aspects of biochemical reaction networks
Location: Unitobler, F-105
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Algebraic aspects of biochemical reaction networks

Chair(s): Alicia Dickenstein (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Georg Regensburger (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Expected number of positive real solutions to systems of polynomial equations arising from reaction networks

AmirHosein Sadeghimanesh
University of Copenhagen

 

Absolute concentration robustness: an algebraic perspective

Anne Shiu
Texas A&M University

 

On the Stability of the Steady States in the n-site Futile Cycle

Carsten Wiuf
University of Copenhagen

 

The DSR graph and dynamical properties of reaction networks

Casian Pantea
West Virginia University

3:00pm
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5:00pm
Room free
Location: Unitobler, F-105

Date: Saturday, 13/Jul/2019
10:00am
-
12:00pm
MS174, part 3: Algebraic aspects of biochemical reaction networks
Location: Unitobler, F-105
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Algebraic aspects of biochemical reaction networks

Chair(s): Alicia Dickenstein (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Georg Regensburger (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Reduction of the number of parameters

János Tóth
Budapest University of Technology and Economics

 

"Good children" and "bad children"

Nicola Vassena
Free University Berlin

 

Tikhonov-Fenichel parameter values for chemical reaction networks

Sebastian Walcher
RWTH Aachen

 

Parameter geography

Jeremy Gunawardena
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS199, part 2: Applications of topology in neuroscience
Location: Unitobler, F-105
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Applications of topology in neuroscience

Chair(s): Kathryn Hess Bellwald (Laboratory for topology and neuroscience, EPFL, Switzerland), Ran Levi (University of Aberdeen, UK)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Simplicial convolutional neural networks for in-painting of cochains

Gard Spreemann
Laboratory for topology and neuroscience, EPFL, Switzerland

 

Using topological data analysis to classify certain stimuli in the Blue Brain reconstruction

Jason Smith
University of Abedeen , UK

 

Topology and neuroscience

Daniela Egas Santander
Laboratory for topology and neuroscience, EPFL, Switzerland

 

Application of topological data analysis to the detection of mild cognitive impairment

Alice Patania
Indiana University