Topics of this conference include but are not limited to

Algebraic Geometry, Toric Geometry, Tropical Geometry, and their Applications to Biology

Speakers

Wojciech Chacholski KTH Sweden

Sandra Di Rocco KTH Sweden

Philippe Gimenez University of Valladolid, Spain

Pablo Groisman University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Milena Hering University of Edinburgh, UK

Gabriela Jeronimo University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Anton Leykin Georgia Tech, USA

Alvaro Liendo University of Talca, Chile

Bernard Mourrain INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France

Ragni Piene University of Oslo, Norway

Marie-Françoise Roy University of Rennes, France

Juan Sabia University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Hal Schenck Auburn University, USA

Frank Sottile Texas A&M University, USA

Bernd Sturmfels Max Planck Institute, Germany

Mauricio Velasco Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Stephen Watt University of Waterloo, Canada

Venue & Schedule

All the talks will take place at room 1403 (ground floor) in Pabellon Cero + Infinito building of Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, University of Buenos Aires. If you are coming by bus or taxi, the most known entrance is Pabellon I, Ciudad Universitaria. From there there will be indications on how to get to the conference room.

Talks' Abstracts

Monday 15/12

09:30-10:20 Coffee

10:20-10:30 Opening

10:30-11:20 Ragni Piene: Higher order tangent spaces - the toric case

11:25-12:15 Hal Schenck: The scattering correspondence: particle physics meets algebraic statistics

12:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:05 Pablo Groisman: Synchronization and Non-Synchronization in Random Geometric Graphs

15:10-16:00 Anton Leykin: Finiteness of central configurations of n bodies in the plane via tropical geometry

16-16:30 Coffee & posters

16:30-17:20 Mauricio Velasco: Algebraic tools for recovering measures from moments

17:25-18:15 Bernd Sturmfels: Maximal Mumford Curves from Planar Graphs (online)

18:15-20:00 Reception

Tuesday 16/12

09:10-10:00 Sandra di Rocco: Data Loci in Algebraic and Metric Geometry

10:00 -10:30 Coffee & posters

10:30-11:20 Philippe Gimenez: Syzygies and sumsets, commutative algebra vs additive combinatorics

11:25-12:15 Gabriela Jeronimo: Algorithmic equidimensional decomposition in the sparse setting 

12:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:05 TBA

15:10-16:00 Bernard Mourrain: Normal forms for solving non-linear problems

16-16:30 Coffee & posters

16:30-17:20 Wojciech Chacholski: Data, Geometry and Homology: subjective view on TDA with illustrations from life sciences

17:25-18:15 Frank Sottile: Toric Geometry of Periodic Operators

Wednesday 17/12

 09:25-10:15 Stephen Watt: Polynomial Methods for Handwriting Recognition

10:15 -10:45 Coffee & posters

10:45-11:35 Marie Françoise Roy: Algebraic winding numbers

11:40-12:30 Alvaro Liendo: Nash Blowup Fails to Resolve Singularities in Dimensions Four and Higher

12:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:20 Milena Hering: Equations of toric vector bundles

15:20-15:50 Coffee & posters

15:50-16:20 Juan Sabia: From a different facet

16:30-17:30 MateMax

20:00 Conference dinner

Posters

Conference dinner

Registration

Lodging

Organizers

Carlos D'Andrea

Teresa Krick

Mercedes Pérez Millán

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