Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Unitobler, F-112
30 seats, 54m^2
Date: Tuesday, 09/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS197, part 1: Numerical differential geometry
Location: Unitobler, F-112
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Numerical Differential Geometry

Chair(s): Tingran Gao (THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, United States of America), Ke Ye (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

 

(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)

 

Introduction to Numerical Differential Geometry

Ke Ye
Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

A Riemannian Proximal Gradient Descent Method with Optimal Convergence Rate

Wen Huang
Xiamen University

 

Semi-Riemannian Manifold Optimization

Tingran Gao
The University of Chicago

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS197, part 2: Numerical differential geometry
Location: Unitobler, F-112
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Numerical Differential Geometry

Chair(s): Tingran Gao (THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, United States of America), Ke Ye (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

 

(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)

 

Anisotropic Diffusion Kernels to Compare Distributions

Xiuyuan Cheng
Duke University

 

Coupled Geometric and Topological Basis for Data-Driven Shape Reconstruction

Qixing Huang
The University of Texas at Austin

 

Intrinsic Gaussian processes on complex constrained domains

Mu Niu
Plymouth University

 

Locally Linear Embedding on Manifold

Nan Wu
Duke University


Date: Wednesday, 10/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
Room free
Location: Unitobler, F-112
3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS178: Geometric design for fabrication
Location: Unitobler, F-112
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Geometric design for fabrication

Chair(s): Helmut Pottmann (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)

 

(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)

 

Geometric modeling of flank CNC machining

Michael Barton
BCAM, Bilbao

 

Modeling developable surfaces through orthogonal geodesics

Michael Rabinovich
ETH Zurich

 

Developability of triangle meshes

Oded Stein
Columbia University

 

Statics-aware design of freeform architecture

Johannes Wallner
TU Graz


Date: Thursday, 11/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS150, part 1: Fitness landscapes and epistasis
Location: Unitobler, F-112
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Fitness landscapes and epistasis

Chair(s): Kristina Crona (American University, Washington, USA), Joachim Krug (Uni Koeln, Germany), Lisa Lamberti (ETHZ, Switzerland)

 

(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)

 

Introduction to fitness landscapes and epistasis

Lisa Lamberti
ETHZ, Switzerland

 

Cluster partitions and fitness landscapes of the Drosophila fly microbiome

Holger Eble1, Michael Joswig1, Lisa Lamberti2, William Ludington3
1TU Berlin, Germany, 2ETHZ, Switzerland, 3Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, USA

 

A mechanistic approach to understanding multi-way interactions between mutations

Michael Harms
University of Oregon, USA

 

Understanding the biophysics of molecules from large functional assays

Jakub Otwinowski
MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS150, part 2: Fitness landscapes and epistasis
Location: Unitobler, F-112
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Fitness landscapes and epistasis

Chair(s): Kristina Crona (American University, Washington, USA), Joachim Krug (Uni Koeln, Germany), Lisa Lamberti (ETHZ, Switzerland)

 

(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)

 

Shape theory, landscape topography and evolutionary dynamics

Joachim Krug, Malvika Srivastava
Uni Koeln, Germany

 

Graphs, polytopes, and unpredictable evolution

Kristina Crona
American University, Washington, USA

 

Computational complexity as an ultimate constraint on evolution

Artem Kaznatcheev
University of Oxford, UK

 

Tropical Principal Component Analysis and its Applications to Phylogenomics

Ruriko Yoshida1, Leon Zhang2, Xu Zhang3
1Naval Postgraduate School, USA, 2University of California, Berkeley, USA, 3University of Kentucky, USA


Date: Friday, 12/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS128, part 1: Symbolic-numeric methods for non-linear equations: Algorithms and applications
Location: Unitobler, F-112
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Symbolic-numeric methods for non-linear equations: Algorithms and applications

Chair(s): Angelos Mantzaflaris (Inria, France), Bernard Mourrain (Inria, France), Elias Tsigaridas (Inria, France)

 

(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)

 

Multilinear systems, determinantal resultants and the multiparameter eigenvalue problem

Matias Bender, Jean-Charles Faugère, Angelos Mantzaflaris, Elias Tsiagaridas
Inria, France

 

Algorithmic aspects of the rational interpolation problem

Carlos D'Andrea
University of Barcelona

 

Computing Gröbner basis for sparse polynomial systems

Matias Bender, Jean-Charles Faugère, Elias Tsigaridas
Inria, France

 

Real solving polynomial systems with interval method

Zafeirakis Zafeirakopoulos1, Mahmut Levent Doğan2
1Gebze Technical University, 2ODTÜ

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS137, part 3: Symbolic Combinatorics
Location: Unitobler, F-112
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Symbolic Combinatorics

Chair(s): Shaoshi Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Manuel Kauers (Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria), Stephen Melczer (University of Pennsylvania)

 

(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)

 

Polynomial Reduction and Super Congruences

Qing-Hu Hou
Tianjin University

 

Diagonals, determinants, and rigidity

Christoph Koutschan
Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics

 

Central Limit Theorems from the Location of Roots of Probability Generating Functions

Marcus Michelen
University of Pennsilvania

 

Periodic Pólya urns and an application to Young tableaux

Michael Wallner
TU Wien


Date: Saturday, 13/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS128, part 2: Symbolic-numeric methods for non-linear equations: Algorithms and applications
Location: Unitobler, F-112
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Symbolic-numeric methods for non-linear equations: Algorithms and applications

Chair(s): Angelos Mantzaflaris (Inria, France), Bernard Mourrain (Inria, France), Elias Tsigaridas (Inria, France)

 

(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)

 

On hybrid univariate polynomial root-finders

Victor Pan
Lehman College CUNY

 

A robust path tracking algorithm for polynomial homotopy continuation

Marc Van Barel1, Simon Telen1, Jan Verschelde2
1KU Leuven, 2University of Illinois at Chicago

 

On the relationship of well conditioned polynomials and elliptic Fekete points

Jinsan Cheng, Junyi Wen
Chinese Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science

 

A sequence of polynomials with optimal condition number

Maria De Ujue Etayo Rodriguez, Carlos Beltrán, Jordi Marzo, Joaquim Ortega-Cerdà
University of Cantabria

3:00pm
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5:00pm
Room free
Location: Unitobler, F-112