MATEMAX
Computational Algebra, Algebraic Geometry and Applications II
Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 15-17 2025

Alicia

Celebrating Alicia Dickenstein's contributions to Math and beyond
Conference's poster

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

Xiaoxian Tang Beihang University, China

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.

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 Gabriela Jeronimo: TBA

15:10-16:00 Anton Leykin: TBA

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

18:15-20:00 Reception

Tuesday 16/12

09:10-10:00 Sandra di Rocco:TBA

10:00 -10:30 Coffee & posters

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

11:25-12:15 Alvaro Liendo: TBA

12:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:05 Xiaoxian Tang: Absolute Concentration Robustness of Zero-One Networks with Conservation Laws

15:10-16:00 Bernard Mourrain: TBA

16-16:30 Coffee & posters

16:30-17:20 Wojciech Chacholski: TBA

17:25-18:15 Frank Sottile: TBA

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 Pablo Groisman: Synchronization and Non-Synchronization in Random Geometric Graphs

12:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:20 Milena Hering: TBA

15:20-15:50 Coffee & posters

15:50-16:20 Juan Sabia: TBA

16:30-17:30 MateMax


20:00 Conference dinner

Posters

Posters will be exhibited around the coffee break area.
Posters'abstracts

Conference dinner

The conference dinner will take place on Wednesday December 17th at 8pm in Restaurant Casa Cuba. The cost per participant will be around 40 usd.

Registration

Registration is closed. If you are interested in participating in this event, please contact the organizers.

Lodging

Lodging must be booked by participants on their own. We have not hired any third party to deal with neither lodging nor any other travel arrangements, so please disregard any spam you may receive of this type.
The conference has a couple of deals with affordable 3 star hotels for around 65-75 usd per night which include a buffet breakfast. Te secure the deal, contact them by email:

* Cristal Palace Hotel, in the neighborhood of Belgrano(close to 107 bus stop). e-mail

* Hotel Alpino, in the neighborhood of Palermo (close to the 37 & 160 bus stops). e-mail

Please mention that you are attending the conference MateMax at the University of Buenos Aires when doing the reservation, and you will get a discount from their listed prices. Recall also that non-residents of Argentina paying with a foreign credit card are exempt of VAT in lodging expenses.

Organizers

Carlos D'Andrea
Teresa Krick
Mercedes Pérez Millán

Support and Sponsorship
Departamento de Matemática
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Fundación Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Conicet
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas Luis A. Santaló