Workshops

Spring 2019

Geometry of Polynomials Reunion

Sep 8, 2020 to Sep 11, 2020

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Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
8:50 am–9:00 am		Opening Remarks
9:00 am–9:50 am		Counting Colorings Deterministically Using Spatial Mixing and Complex Zeros Piyush Srivastava (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
9:50 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:30 am		Spectral Sets and Derivatives of The Psd Cone Mario Kummer (TU Berlin)
10:30 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		Gather.town
11:20 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:00 pm		Improved Analysis of Higher Order Random Walks Vedat Alev Levi (University of Waterloo)
12:00 pm–12:10 pm		Break
12:10 pm–12:50 pm		Classical Algorithms, Correlation Decay, and Complex Zeros of Quantum Partition Functions Mehdi Soleimani-far (MIT)

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
9:00 am–9:50 am		Simplicial Generation of Chow Rings of Matroids Chris Eur (Stanford University)
9:50 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:30 am		Capacity Bounds via Productization Jonathan Leake (TU Berlin)
10:30 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		Gather.town
11:20 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:00 pm		Paving Property for Strongly Rayleigh Distributions Milad Barzegar (Sharif University of Technology)
12:00 pm–12:10 pm		Break
12:10 pm–12:50 pm		New Tools for Analysis of Markov Chains via High-Dimensional Expansion Kuikui Liu (University of Washington)

Thursday, September 10th, 2020
9:00 am–9:50 am		Zero-Free Regions for Repulsive Gasses Will Perkins (University of Illinois at Chicago)
9:50 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:30 am		Generalized Permutahedra: Minkowski Linear Functionals and Ehrhart Positivity Katharina Jochemko (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
10:30 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		Open Problems
11:20 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:00 pm		A Geometric Approach to Conic Stability of Polynomials Papri Dey (University of Missouri)
12:00 pm–12:10 pm		Break
12:10 pm–12:50 pm		Lee-Yang Zeros and the Complexity of the Ferromagnetic Ising Model on Bounded-Degree Graphs Guus Regts (University of Amsterdam)

Friday, September 11th, 2020
9:00 am–9:50 am		A (Slightly) Improved Approximation Algorithm for Metric TSP Nathan Klein (University of Washington)
9:50 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:30 am		Determinantal Representations and the Principal Minor Map Cynthia Vinzant (North Carolina State University)
10:30 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		Gather.town
11:20 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:00 pm		Statistical Physics Algorithms for Unique Games Alexandra Kolla (University of Colorado)