Workshop on Real Number Complexity - Schedule

Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Hong Kong, China, June 16 - 26, 2008

Worshop date and time: June 16-18, 2008
Location: City University, Hong Kong
Organizers: Peter Bürgisser, Paderborn, Germany.   Mario Wschebor, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Schedule

June 16 Slot 1 13:50 - 14:35 Steve Zelditch (semiplenary) Geometry and statistical patterns in zeros and critical points of random waves Abstract Slides
Slot 2 14:40 - 15:25 Pascal Koiran On the expressive power of planar perfect matching and permanents of bounded treewidth matrices Abstract Slides
Slot 3 16:00 - 16:45 Klaus Meer On the expressive power of CNF formulas of bounded Tree- and Clique-Width Abstract Slides
Slot 4 16:50 - 17:10 Irenee Briquel (contributed) Satisfaction constraint problems: an attempt to transpose a dichotomy theorem Abstract Slides
17:15 - 17:35 Jean-Claude Yakoubsohn (contributed) Complexity of the nearest GCD computation Abstract Slides
Slot 5 17:40 - 18:25 Paulin de Naurois Parallel Time and Quantifier Prefixes Abstract Slides
June 17 Slot 1 13:50 - 14:35 Mike Shub On the Geometry and Topology of the Solution Variety and the Complexity of Bezout's Theorem Abstract
Slot 2 14:40 - 15:25 Jean-Piere Dedieu (semiplenary) Complexity of Bezout's Theorem via the condition metric Abstract Slides
Slot 3 16:00 - 16:45 Carlos Beltrán Complexity analysis of path-following methods for solving systems of polynomial equations Abstract
Slot 4 16:50 - 17:35 Gregorio Malajovich The expected number of minima of a polynomial Abstract
Slot 5 17:40 - 18:25 Jan Verschelde Certificates in Numerical Algebraic Geometry Abstract Slides
June 18 Slot 1 13:50 - 14:35 Marc Giusti Bipolar Varieties and Real Solving of Singular Algebraic Varieties Abstract Slides
Slot 2 14:40 - 15:25 Felipe Cucker A Numerical Algorithm for Zero Counting Abstract Slides
Slot 3 16:00 - 16:45 Shang-Hua Teng (semiplenary) Paths Beyond Local Search: A Nearly Tight Bound for Randomized Fixed-Point Computation Abstract Slides
Slot 4 16:50 - 17:35 Martin Lotz Adversarial Smoothed Analysis of Condition Numbers Abstract Slides
Slot 5 17:40 - 18:00 Peter Scheiblechner (contributed) Counting Irreducible Components of Complex Algebraic Varieties Abstract Slides
18:05 - 18:25 Dennis Amelunxen (contributed) Uniform Smoothed Analysis of a Condition Number for Linear Programming Abstract Slides