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1. # WorkshopWomen in Topology

Maria Basterra (University of New Hampshire), Kristine Bauer (University of Calgary), LEAD Kathryn Hess (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), Brenda Johnson (Union College--Union University)

The Women in Topology (WIT) network is an international group of female mathematicians interested in homotopy theory whose main goal is to increase the retention of women in the field by providing both unique collaborative research opportunities and mentorship between colleagues.  The MSRI WIT meeting will be organized as an afternoon of short talks from participants, followed by two days of open problem seminars and working groups designed to stimulate new collaborations, as well as to strengthen those already ongoing among the participants.

Nov 29, 2017
Wednesday
 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Check-in 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM 5 minute Flash Talks, I 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM 5 minute Flash talks, II
Nov 30, 2017
Thursday
 09:00 AM - 09:10 AM Introduction and Welcome 09:15 AM - 09:45 AM Direct proofs of properties and structures of model structures for (∞, 1)-categories Julie Bergner (University of Virginia) 09:45 AM - 10:15 AM Directed homotopy and homology theory, with an eye towards applications Lisbeth Fajstrup (Aalborg University) 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Break 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM Connections between K-theory and fixed point invariants Cary Malkiewich (Binghamton University (SUNY)), Kathleen Ponto (University of Kentucky) 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Foundations of (∞, 2) -category theory Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University) 11:45 AM - 01:45 PM Lunch 01:45 PM - 02:15 PM Applications of monoidal model categories of spectra Brooke Shipley (University of Illinois at Chicago) 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM Homological Stability Nathalie Wahl (University of Copenhagen) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Team Introductions 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM First working session 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM Dinner on your own in downtown Berkeley 08:00 PM - 08:30 PM Informal discussion
Dec 01, 2017
Friday
 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM Second Working Session 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM WIT Flash talks: how to continue collaborations
2. # WorkshopGeometric functional analysis and applications

Franck Barthe (Université de Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier)), Rafal Latala (University of Warsaw), Emanuel Milman (Technion---Israel Institute of Technology), Assaf Naor (Princeton University), LEAD Gideon Schechtman (Weizmann Institute of Science)

This is the main workshop of the program "Geometric functional analysis and applications". It will focus on the main topics of the program. These include: Convex geometry, Asymptotic geometric analysis, Interaction with computer science, Signal processing, Random matrix theory and other aspects of Probability.

Nov 13, 2017
Monday
 09:15 AM - 09:30 AM Welcome 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM On Gaussian-width gradient complexity and mean-field behavior of interacting particle systems and random graphs. Ronen Eldan (Weizmann Institute of Science) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM On optimal matching of Gaussian samples Michel Ledoux (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse) 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM Lunch 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM Renyi divergence and the central limit theorem Sergey Bobkov (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) 02:45 PM - 03:45 PM Asymptotics in discrete Beta-ensembles Alice Guionnet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM Tea 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM Rigidity of the 3D hierarchical Coulomb gas Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford University)
Nov 14, 2017
Tuesday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Refinements of Gaussian concentration for norms Grigoris Paouris (Texas A & M University) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Subgaussian and lacunary uniformly bounded orthonormal systems Gilles Pisier (Texas A & M University) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Billiards and Caustics Shiri Artstein (Tel Aviv University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM On matrix-valued log-concave functions Dario Cordero-Erausquin (Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)) 04:30 PM - 06:20 PM Reception
Nov 15, 2017
Wednesday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Bezout Inequality for Mixed volumes Artem Zvavitch (Kent State University) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Hessian Valuations Monika Ludwig (Technische Universität Wien)
Nov 16, 2017
Thursday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM A Reverse Minkowski Theorem Oded Regev (New York University, Courant Institute) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Optimality of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma Jelani Nelson (Harvard University) 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM Lunch 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM Progress on the KLS Conjecture Santosh Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology) 02:45 PM - 03:45 PM Convergence of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Faster Polytope Volume Computation Yin Tat Lee (University of Washington) 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM Tea 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM The dimension-free structure of nonhomogeneous random matrices Ramon Van Handel (Princeton University)
Nov 17, 2017
Friday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM The smallest singular value of a $d$-regular random square matrix Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM On the convex Poincaré inequality and weak transportation inequalities Radoslaw Adamczak (University of Warsaw; Polish Academy of Sciences) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Invertibility via distance for random matrices with continuous distributions Konstantin Tikhomirov (Princeton University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Uniform cover inequalities for the volume of coordinate sections and projections of convex bodies Apostolos Giannopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (University of Athens))
3. # SeminarWriting Seminar

Igor Pak (University of California, Los Angeles)

Oct 30, 2017
Monday
 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Writing Seminar Igor Pak (University of California, Los Angeles)
4. # WorkshopGeometric and topological combinatorics: Modern techniques and methods

Patricia Hersh (North Carolina State University), LEAD Victor Reiner (University of Minnesota Twin Cities), Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley), Frank Vallentin (Universität zu Köln), Günter Ziegler (Freie Universität Berlin)

This workshop will focus on the interaction between Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology, including recent developments and techniques in areas such as

-- polytopes and cell complexes,
-- simplicial complexes and higher order graph theory,
-- methods from equivariant topology and configuration spaces,
-- geometric combinatorics in optimization and social choice theory,
-- algebraic and algebro-geometric methods.

Oct 09, 2017
Monday
 09:15 AM - 09:30 AM Welcome 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Negative correlation and Hodge-Riemann relations June Huh (Institute for Advanced Study) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM A counterexample to the extension space conjecture for realizable oriented matroids Xue (Gaku) Liu (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Recent developments on chromatic quasisymmetric functions Michelle Wachs (University of Miami) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Intersections of finite sets: geometry and topology Florian Frick (Cornell University)
Oct 10, 2017
Tuesday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Combinatorial positive valuations Katharina Jochemko (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Symmetric Sums of Squares over k-Subset Hypercubes Annie Raymond (University of Washington) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Mogami triangulations Bruno Benedetti (University of Miami) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM The geometry of scheduling Caroline Klivans (Brown University) 04:30 PM - 06:15 PM Reception
Oct 11, 2017
Wednesday
 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Around the lower bound theorem for polytope Eran Nevo (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Generic toric varieties, one-sided pairings and the Lefschetz theorem Karim Adiprasito (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Computing simplicial representatives of homotopy group elements Uli Wagner (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Oct 12, 2017
Thursday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Combinatorics of the Tree Amplituhedron Lauren Williams (University of California, Berkeley) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Unwinding The Amplituhedron Hugh Thomas (Université du Québec à Montréal) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Hyperbolicity, determinants, and reciprocal linear spaces Cynthia Vinzant (North Carolina State University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 04:10 PM - 05:00 PM The first hundred years of Helly’s theorem Jesus De Loera (University of California, Davis)
Oct 13, 2017
Friday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Complexity of counting integer points Igor Pak (University of California, Los Angeles) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Bott-Samelson varieties and combinatorics Laura Escobar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Moving a robotic arm in a tunnel Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Triangulations of root polytopes and Tutte polynomials Alexander Postnikov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
5. # SeminarGFA Main Seminar: Hamming Cube and Martingales: Isoperimetric Problems, "Duality" By Legandre Transform, and Degenerate Monge-Ampère Equation

Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)

Sep 28, 2017
Thursday
 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM GFA Main Seminar: Hamming Cube and Martingales: Isoperimetric Problems, "Duality" By Legandre Transform, and Degenerate Monge-Ampère Equation Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)
6. # SeminarGFA Main Seminar: Hamming Cube and Martingales: Isoperimetric Problems, "Duality" By Legandre Transform, and Degenerate Monge-Ampère Equation

Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)

Sep 28, 2017
Thursday
 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM GFA Main Seminar: Hamming Cube and Martingales: Isoperimetric Problems, "Duality" By Legandre Transform, and Degenerate Monge-Ampère Equation Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)
7. # SeminarGFA Main Seminar: Hamming Cube and Martingales: Isoperimetric Problems, "Duality" By Legandre Transform, and Degenerate Monge-Ampère Equation

Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)

Sep 26, 2017
Tuesday
 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM GFA Main Seminar: Hamming Cube and Martingales: Isoperimetric Problems, "Duality" By Legandre Transform, and Degenerate Monge-Ampère Equation Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)
8. # SeminarGFA Main Seminar: Hamming Cube and Martingales: Isoperimetric Problems, "Duality" By Legandre Transform, and Degenerate Monge-Ampère Equation

Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)

Sep 26, 2017
Tuesday
 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM GFA Main Seminar: Hamming Cube and Martingales: Isoperimetric Problems, "Duality" By Legandre Transform, and Degenerate Monge-Ampère Equation Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)
9. # SeminarGTC Graduate Seminar: Applying for Jobs, Interviews, and the Transition to Life as a Faculty Member

Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College)

Sep 11, 2017
Monday
 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM GTC Graduate Seminar: Applying for Jobs, Interviews, and the Transition to Life as a Faculty Member Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College)
10. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Geometric and Topological Combinatorics

Imre Barany (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics), Anders Björner (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)), LEAD Benjamin Braun (University of Kentucky), Isabella Novik (University of Washington), Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College), Rekha Thomas (University of Washington)

The introductory workshop will present the main topics that will be the subject of much of the Geometric and Topological Combinatorics Program at MSRI.  Key areas of interest are point configurations and matroids, hyperplane and subspace arrangements, polytopes and polyhedra, lattices, convex bodies, and sphere packings. This workshop will consist of introductory talks on a variety of topics, intended for a broad audience.

Sep 05, 2017
Tuesday
 09:00 AM - 09:15 AM Welcome 09:15 AM - 10:15 AM Matroids and Tropical Geometry Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University) 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Break 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Polynomial equations and polyhedra Josephine Yu (Georgia Institute of Technology) 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Introductions by junior participants 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Unimodualr triangulations of lattice polytopes Francisco Santos Leal (University of Cantabria) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Order, geometrically Raman Sanyal (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Sep 06, 2017
Wednesday
 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Shape of Associativity Satyan Devadoss (University of San Diego) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM f-vectors of polytopes and simplicial complexes, part I: results and problems Eran Nevo (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM f-vectors of simplicial complexes and polytopes, part II: methods Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke (Universität Osnabrück) 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Ehrhart positivity Fu Liu (University of California, Davis) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Ehrhart Unimodality and Simplices for Numeral Systems Liam Solus (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)) 04:30 PM - 06:20 PM Reception
Sep 07, 2017
Thursday
 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Equivariant Methods in Discrete Geometry: Problems and Progress Günter Ziegler (Freie Universität Berlin) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Tea 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Linear versions of Tverberg's theorem: Progress and problems Pablo Soberón (Northeastern University) 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Hypertrees Nathan Linial (Hebrew University) 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Random Simplicial Complexes Matthew Kahle (Ohio State University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Cutting Cakes with Combinatorial Fixed Point Theorems Kathryn Nyman (Willamette University)
Sep 08, 2017
Friday
 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Linear lifts and nonnegative factorizations Samuel Fiorini (Université Libre de Bruxelles) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Tea 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Positive semidefinite lifts and factorizations João Gouveia (University of Coimbra) 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Working Time 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Spectrahedra Cynthia Vinzant (North Carolina State University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM The Crossing Lemma Revisited Janos Pach (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))
11. # WorkshopConnections for Women Workshop: Geometric and Topological Combinatorics

Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Margaret Bayer (University of Kansas), Francisco Santos Leal (University of Cantabria), LEAD Cynthia Vinzant (North Carolina State University)

This workshop will feature lectures on a variety of topics in geometric and topological combinatorics, given by prominent women and men in the field. It precedes the introductory workshop and will preview the major research themes of the semester program. There will be a panel discussion focusing on issues particularly relevant to junior researchers, women, and minorities, as well as other social events. This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

Aug 31, 2017
Thursday
 09:15 AM - 09:30 AM Welcome 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM The Slack Realization Space of a Polytope Rekha Thomas (University of Washington) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Voting in Agreeable Societies Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College) 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Shellability of uncrossing posets and the CW poset property Patricia Hersh (North Carolina State University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM On the connectivity of three-dimensional tilings Caroline Klivans (Brown University) 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM Panel Discussion 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM Dinner at the Taste of the Himalayas
Sep 01, 2017
Friday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Lower bound theorems for manifolds and balanced manifolds Isabella Novik (University of Washington) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Tverberg plus minus Imre Barany (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Quick-fire Introductions 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Chow Betti numbers of hypersimplices and related topics Josephine Yu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
12. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: phenomena in high dimensions

LEAD Alexander Koldobsky (University of Missouri), Michel Ledoux (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse), Monika Ludwig (Technische Universität Wien), Alain Pajor (Université de Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée), Stanislaw Szarek (Case Western Reserve University), Roman Vershynin (University of Michigan)

This workshop will consist of several short courses related to high dimensional convex geometry, high dimensional probability, and applications in data science. The lectures will be accessible for graduate students.

Aug 21, 2017
Monday
 09:00 AM - 09:10 AM Welcome 09:10 AM - 10:10 AM Geometry of isotropic convex bodies Apostolos Giannopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (University of Athens)) 10:10 AM - 11:00 AM Break - View the Eclipse 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Deviations of random matrices and applications Roman Vershynin (University of Michigan) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Mixing in product spaces Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Geometric classification Monika Ludwig (Technische Universität Wien)
Aug 22, 2017
Tuesday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Gaussian convexity Ramon Van Handel (Princeton University) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Brunn-Minkowski theory, functionalization of geometric notions and inequalities 1. Volume inequalities Shiri Artstein (Tel Aviv University) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Mixing in product spaces Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Geometry of isotropic convex bodies Apostolos Giannopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (University of Athens)) 04:30 PM - 06:20 PM Reception
Aug 23, 2017
Wednesday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Geometric classification Monika Ludwig (Technische Universität Wien) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Deviations of random matrices and applications Roman Vershynin (University of Michigan)
Aug 24, 2017
Thursday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Mixing in product spaces Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Geometry of isotropic convex bodies Apostolos Giannopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (University of Athens)) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Gaussian convexity Ramon Van Handel (Princeton University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Brunn-Minkowski theory, functionalization of geometric notions and inequalities 2. Duality and Central symmetry Shiri Artstein (Tel Aviv University)
Aug 25, 2017
Friday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Brunn-Minkowski theory, functionalization of geometric notions and inequalities 3. Covering numbers Shiri Artstein (Tel Aviv University) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Deviations of random matrices and applications Roman Vershynin (University of Michigan) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Geometric classification Monika Ludwig (Technische Universität Wien) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Gaussian convexity Ramon Van Handel (Princeton University)
13. # WorkshopConnections for Women: geometry and probability in high dimensions

LEAD Shiri Artstein (Tel Aviv University), Marianna Csornyei (University of Chicago), Eva Kopecka (Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck), Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University)

This workshop will be on topics connected with Asymptotic Geometric Analysis - a relatively new field, the young finite dimensional cousin of Banach Space theory, functional analysis and classical convexity. We study high, but finite, dimensional objects, where the disorder of many parameters and many dimensions is regularized by convexity assumptions.  This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

Aug 17, 2017
Thursday
 09:15 AM - 09:30 AM Welcome 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Tensor valuations on lattice polytopes Monika Ludwig (Technische Universität Wien) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Concentration of measure on the orthogonal group and high-dimensional geometry Elizabeth Meckes (Case Western Reserve University) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Uniqueness of a smooth convex body with uniform cone volume measure in the neighborhood of a ball Galyna Livshyts (Georgia Institute of Technology) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Panel Discussion 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM Dinner at the Taste of Himalayas
Aug 18, 2017
Friday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Cone unrectifiable sets and non-differentiability of real-valued Lipschitz functions Olga Maleva (University of Birmingham) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM FLAG AREA MEASURES Susanna Dann (Vienna University of Technology) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Abstract Wiener groups Tai Melcher (University of Virginia) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea & Poster Session 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Poster Session and Informal Discussion
14. # Summer Graduate SchoolAutomorphic Forms and the Langlands Program

LEAD Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College, London)

The summer school will be an introduction to the more algebraic aspects of the theory of automorphic forms and representations. One of the goals will be to understand the statements of the main conjectures in the Langlands programme. Another will be to gain a good working understanding of the fundamental definitions in the theory, such as principal series representations, the Satake isomorphism, and of course automorphic forms and representations for groups such as GL_n and its inner forms.

Jul 24, 2017
Monday
 09:00 AM - 09:15 AM Introduction to MSRI 09:15 AM - 09:30 AM Welcome 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Lecture 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM TA / Projects / Problem sets 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Tea 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Projects / Problem sets
Jul 25, 2017
Tuesday
 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Lecture 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM TA / Projects / Problem sets 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Tea 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Projects / Problem
Jul 26, 2017
Wednesday
 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Lecture 11:30 AM - 02:00 PM BBQ at Tilden Park
Jul 27, 2017
Thursday
 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Lecture 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM TA / Projects / Problem sets 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Tea 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Projects / Problem sets
Jul 28, 2017
Friday
 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Lecture 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM TA / Projects / Problem sets 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Tea 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM TA / Projects / Problem sets
Jul 31, 2017
Monday
 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Lecture 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM TA / Projects / Problem sets 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Tea 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Projects / Problem sets
Aug 01, 2017
Tuesday
 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Lecture 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM TA / Projects / Problem sets 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Tea 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Projects / Problem
Aug 02, 2017
Wednesday
 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Lecture 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch
Aug 03, 2017
Thursday
 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Lecture 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM TA / Projects / Problem sets 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Tea 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Projects / Problem sets
Aug 04, 2017
Friday
 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Lecture 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM TA / Projects / Problem sets 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Tea 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM TA / Projects / Problem sets
15. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2017: Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations

LEAD Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Maria Franco (Queensborough Community College (CUNY); MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University), J. Maurice Rojas (Texas A & M University), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

The MSRI-UP summer program is designed to serve a diverse group of undergraduate students who would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences.
In 2017, MSRI-UP will focus on Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations, a topic at the heart of almost every computational problem in the physical and life sciences. We will pay special attention to complexity issues, highlighting connections with tropical geometry, number theory, and the P vs. NP problem. The research program will be led by Prof. J. Maurice Rojas of Texas A&M University.
Students who have had a linear algebra course and a course in which they have had to write proofs are eligible to apply. Due to funding restrictions, only U.S. citizens and permanent residents may apply regardless of funding. Members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

Jun 30, 2017
Friday
 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM The Dehn-Sommerville Relations and the Catalan Matroid Anastasia Chavez (University of California, Davis)
Jul 07, 2017
Friday
 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Mathematical Models of the Retina and In Silico Experiments: Shedding Light on Vision Loss Erika Camacho (University of Arizona)
Jul 14, 2017
Friday
 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Impact of Undergraduate Research on Student Learning at a Community College Maria Franco (Queensborough Community College (CUNY); MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute)
Jul 21, 2017
Friday
 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM How to be "successful" in the mathematics world? Alexander Diaz-Lopez (Villanova University)
Jul 28, 2017
Friday
 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Exponential Domination in Grids Michael Young (Iowa State University)
Aug 04, 2017
Friday
 09:00 AM - 09:15 AM Final Presentations: Opening Remarks J. Maurice Rojas (Texas A & M University) 09:15 AM - 09:50 AM Counting the roots of a polynomial modulo p2 Trajan Hammonds (Carnegie Mellon University), Jeremy Johnson (Humboldt State University), Angela Patini (University of Pennsylvania) 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM On the maximal number of roots of a trinomial over a prime field Jeshu Dastidar (Queens College, CUNY), Viviana Peña Márquez (Konrad Lorenz Fundación Universitaria), Ryan Pugh (California State University-Monterey Bay) 10:45 AM - 11:20 AM Applying discriminant chambers to structured polynomials Amy Adair (Louisiana State University), Alex Mendez (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Diane Tchuindjo (University of Maryland) 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM Lunch 01:00 PM - 01:35 PM Using lower binomials to approximate roots of trinomials Harold Jimenez Polo (University of California, Berkeley), Esteban Madrigal (Harvard University), Carlos Osco Huaricapcha (San Francisco State University) 01:45 PM - 02:20 PM Topology of positive zero sets of bivariate pentanomials Malachi Alexander (California State University, Monterey Bay), Ashley De Luna (California State Polytechnic University), Christian McRoberts (Morehouse College) 02:30 PM - 03:05 PM Topology of positive zero sets of n-variate (n+4)-nomials Davina Boykin (Valparaiso University), Sabrina Enriquez (University of Southern California), Noemi Valdez (Harvard University) 03:05 PM - 03:15 PM Closing Remarks Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University) 03:15 PM - 04:00 PM Afternoon Tea