Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Unitobler, F011
30 seats, 59m^2
Date: Tuesday, 09/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS177, part 1: Algebraic and combinatorial phylogenetics
Location: Unitobler, F011
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Algebraic and combinatorial phylogenetics

Chair(s): Marta Casanellas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Jane Coons (North Carolina State University), Seth Sullivant (North Carolina State University)

 

(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)

 

An Introduction to Algebraic and Combinatorial Phylogenetics

Jane Coons
North Carolina State University

 

Inferring species networks from gene trees

Elizabeth S. Allman, Hector Baños, John Rhodes
University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

Algebraic versus semi-algebraic conditions for phylogenetic varieties

Marina Garrote-López
BGSMath and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

 

Trait evolution on two gene trees

James Degnan
The University of New Mexico

3:00pm
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5:00pm
Room free
Location: Unitobler, F011

Date: Wednesday, 10/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS177, part 2: Algebraic and combinatorial phylogenetics
Location: Unitobler, F011
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Algebraic and combinatorial phylogenetics

Chair(s): Marta Casanellas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Jane Coons (North Carolina State University), Seth Sullivant (North Carolina State University)

 

(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)

 

Weighting the Coalescent

Joseph Rusinko
Hobart and William Smith Colleges

 

Identifiability of 2-tree mixtures for the Kimura 3ST model

Jesús Fernández-Sánchez1, Marta Casanellas1, Alessandro Oneto2
1Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2BGSMath and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

 

Markov association schemes

Jeremy Sumner
University of Tasmania

 

Existence of maximally probable ranked gene tree topologies with a matching unranked topology

Filippo Disanto1, Pasquale Miglionico2, Guido Narduzzi2
1University of Pisa, 2Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS199, part 1: Applications of topology in neuroscience
Location: Unitobler, F011
 
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)

 

Understanding neuronal shapes with algebraic topology

Lida Kanari
Blue Brain Project, EPFl, Switzerland

 

Computing homotopy types of directed flag complexes

Dejan Govc
University of Aberdeen, UK

 

Applications of persistent homology to stroke therapy

Philip Egger
Hummel Lab, EPFL. Switzerland

 

Neural decoding using TDA

Erik Rybakken
NTNU, Norway


Date: Thursday, 11/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS126, part 1: Euclidean distance geometry and its applications
Location: Unitobler, F011
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Euclidean distance geometry and its applications

Chair(s): Kaie Kubjas (Sorbonne Université)

 

(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)

 

Isometries in Euclidean, Homogeneous, and Conformal Spaces

Carlile Lavor
University of Campinas, Brazil

 

Auxetic deformations of triply periodic minimal surfaces

Ciprian S. Borcea
Rider University, USA

 

Voronoi Cells of Varieties

Maddie Weinstein
University of California, Berkeley, USA

 

Critical points of the Hamming and taxicab distance functions

Jonathan Hauenstein
University of Notre Dame, USA

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS166, part 2: Computational aspects of finite groups and their representations
Location: Unitobler, F011
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Computational aspects of finite groups and their representations

Chair(s): Armin Jamshidpey (University of Waterloo, Canada), Eric Schost (University of Waterloo, Canada), Mark Giesbrecht (University of Waterloo, Canada)

 

(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)

 

Calculations with Symplectic Hypergeometric Groups

Alexander Hulpke
Colorado State University

 

Algorithmic factorization of noncommutative polynomials

Viktor Levandovskyy
RWTH Acchen University

 

Finite groups of Lie type and computer algebra

Meinolf Geck
Universität Stuttgart

 

Classification of regular parametrized one-relation operads

Murray Bremner
University of Saskatchewan

5:15pm
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6:30pm
SIAGA meeting for corresponding and associate editors
Location: Unitobler, F011

Date: Friday, 12/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS126, part 2: Euclidean distance geometry and its applications
Location: Unitobler, F011
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Euclidean distance geometry and its applications

Chair(s): Kaie Kubjas (Sorbonne Université)

 

(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)

 

Rigidity theory and algebraic matroids

Jessica Sidman
Mount Holyoke College, USA

 

Periodic framework enhancements

Ileana Streinu
Smith College, USA

 

Barvinok's Naive Algorithm in Distance Geometry

Leo Liberti1, Ky Vu2
1CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique, France, 2Chinese University of Hong Kong, P.R. China

 

Mathematics of 3D genome reconstruction in diploid organisms

Kaie Kubjas
Sorbonne Université, France

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS186, part 1: Algebraic vision
Location: Unitobler, F011
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Algebraic vision

Chair(s): Max David Lieblich (University of Washington, United States of America), Tomas Pajdla (Czech Technical University in Prague), Matthew Trager (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU)

 

(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)

 

"Real" Algebraic Vision

Sameer Agarwal
Google

 

A geometric construction of the essential variety

Lucas Van Meter
University of Washington

 

Classification of Point-Line Minimal Problems in Complete Multi-View Visibility

Timothy Duff1, Kathlén Kohn2, Anton Leykin1, Tomas Pajdla3
1Georgia Tech, 2University of Oslo, 3CIIRC, CTU Prague


Date: Saturday, 13/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS186, part 2: Algebraic vision
Location: Unitobler, F011
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Algebraic vision

Chair(s): Max David Lieblich (University of Washington, United States of America), Tomas Pajdla (Czech Technical University in Prague), Matthew Trager (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU)

 

(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)

 

Solving for camera configurations from pairs

Brian Osserman
University of California, Davis

 

Ideals of the Multiview Variety

Andrew Pryhuber
University of Washington

 

Estimation under group action and fast polynomial solvers, with applications to cryo-EM

Joe Kileel
Princeton

3:00pm
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5:00pm
Room free
Location: Unitobler, F011