SCHEDULE OF THE MAIN LECTURES (MAY 20-24, 2002)

Unless otherwise noted, all talks will be in Blocker 158.
MONDAY, May 20, 2002
9:00-10:00 Bernd Sturmfels Polynomials in One Variable
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:15 Mike Stillman Computing Primary Decompositions in Macaulay 2: What to do when the going gets tough
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:15 Tien-Yien Li Solving Polynomial Systems by Homotopy Continuation Methods
12:15-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:10 Amit Khetan: The Resultant of a Sparse, Unmixed, Bivariate System
14:15-14:40 Frederic Bihan: Viro's Method for the Construction of Real Complete Intersections Maya Mohsin Ahmed: Algebraic Combinatorics of Magic Squares
14:45-15:10 Uli Walther: The Bernstein-Sato Polynomial of Generic Hyperplane Arrangements Ilias S. Kotsireas: Implicitization and Parameterization in Algebraic Geometry with Applications to CAGD
15:15-15:40 Keith Pardue: The Moreno-Socias Conjecture Robert H. Lewis: Using the Dixon Resultant on Big Problems
15:45-16:10 Milena Hering: The Membrane Inclusion Curvature Equations Aihua Li: Using Elimination Theory to Solve the Matrix Equation X^2 AX - AXA= 0
16:10-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:30 Bernd Sturmfels Groebner Bases of Zero-Dimensional Ideals

TUESDAY, May 21, 2002
9:00-10:00 Bernd Sturmfels Bernstein's Theorem and Fewnomials
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:15 Jan Verschelde Polynomial Homotopy Continuation: Software and Applications
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:15 Karen Gatermann Sparse Polynomial Systems Modelling Chemical Reactions
12:15-13:45 Lunch
13:45-16:00 WORK TIME
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:30 Bernd Sturmfels Resultants

WEDNESDAY, May 22, 2002
9:00-10:00 Bernd Sturmfels Primary Decomposition
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:15 J. Maurice Rojas Complexity and Rationality
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:15 Eduardo Cattani Computational Aspects of Residues
12:15-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:30 Craig Huneke Some Questions in the Homological Theory of Commutative Algebras
14:30-14:45 Coffee
14:45-15:30 Gregorio Malajovich Mixed Volume Without Subdivisions
15:30-15:45 Coffee
15:45-16:45 Bernd Sturmfels Polynomial Systems in Economics
17:30-19:00 Banquet
19:00-21:00 AFTER-BANQUET WORK TIME (Blocker 131)

THURSDAY, May 23, 2002
9:00-10:00 Bernd Sturmfels Semidefinite Programming and the Real Nullstellensatz
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:15 Frank Sottile Topological Lower Bounds on the Number of Real Solutions
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:15 Thorsten Theobald Homotopy Aspects of Geometric Tangent Problems
12:15-13:45 Lunch
13:45-16:00 WORK TIME
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:30 Bernd Sturmfels Polynomial Systems in Statistics
17:30-19:00 Dinner
19:00-21:00 NUMERICAL SOFTWARE EVENING

FRIDAY, May 24, 2002
9:00-10:00 Bernd Sturmfels Tropical Algebraic Geometry
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:15 Saugata Basu New Bounds for Betti Numbers of Semi-Algebraic Sets and Algorithms for Computing Them
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:15 Pablo Parrilo Sparsity and Symmetry in Polynomial Optimization
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:30 PROBLEM SESSION
14:30-15:30 Bernd Sturmfels The Palamodov-Ehrenpreis Theorem
15:30-? BON VOYAGE!