California Institute of Technology
SCHEDULE
March 6, 2007, 10:00am - 5:00pm, all talks in
Avery Conference Room in Avery House (Building 99).
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee, Bagels, Cookies, Water ...
- Morning Session Talks (10:00 - 12:00)
- 10:00 - 10:10: John Doyle (Caltech)
Welcome address: what is SCAOD ?
- 10:10 - 11:00: Bill Helton (UCSD)
Counting the equilibria of chemical reactions v.s.
properties of the linearized equations
- 11:00 - 11:10: Coffee Break
- 11:10 - 12:00: Igor Klep (UCSD)
Sums of hermitian squares and the BMV conjecture
- 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break
- Afternoon Session Talks (2:00 - 5:00)
- Mihai Putinar (UCSB)
Positive polynomials on odd-dimensional spheres
- 3:00 - 3:10: Coffee Break
- Ben Recht (Caltech)
Parsimonious Programming
- 4:00 - 4:10: Coffee Break
- Jiawang Nie (Caltech & UCSD)
SDP representation of convex sets
SCAOD 2008 is over. Hope to see you next year!