Special session on  Foundations of Numerical Algebraic Geometry
at the Fall 2016 AMS Western Section Meeting
at University of Denver in Denver Colorado
8--9 October 2016

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  ---  Saturday, AM:  ---  
9:00-9:20am:   Anton Leykin (Georgia Tech), 
                  "Trace test."

9:30-9:50am:   Tianran Chen (Michigan State), 
                  "A polyhedral approach for computing positive dimensional solution sets of polynomial systems."

10:00-10:20am: Nathan R Bliss, (U. Illinois-Chicago), 
                  "Computing all Space Curve Solutions of Polynomial Systems by Polyhedral Methods."

10:30-10:50am: Michael A Burr (Clemson)
                  "An Introduction and Recent Advances on Continuous Amortization."

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  ---  Saturday, PM:  ---  
3:00-3:20pm:  Elizabeth Gross (San Jose State)
                  "Model selection in systems biology with numerical algebraic geometry."

3:30-3:50pm:  Brent R Davis (Colorado State)
                  "Numerical algebraic geometry for model selection."

4:00-4:20pm:  Taylor Brysiewicz (Texas A&M)
                  "Computing Newton Polytopes via Numerical Algebraic Geometry."

4:30-4:50pm:  Nickolas Hein (Benedictine College)
                  "Liason pruning for certifiable Schubert calculus in geometry of type-C."

5:00-5:20pm:  Jose Israel Rodriguez (U Chicago)
                  "Numerical computation of Galois groups."

5:40-5:50pm:  Daniel Brake (Notre Dame)
                  "Desingularizing cells of numerical real decompositions."

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  ---  Sunday, AM:   ---  
9:00-9:20am:   Dan Bates (Colorado State) 
                   "Finding exceptional sets with fiber products."

9:30-9:50am:   Timothy E. Hodges (Colorado State)
                   "Extending Bertini 2.0 for your own purposes."

10:00-10:20am: Matthew Niemerg (IBM)
                   "Illuminating the Shadow of the Blowup."

10:30-10:50am: Jonathan D. Hauenstein (Notre Dame)
                   "Decomposition of solution sets via derivatives."

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