It is usual to launch a special semester at MSRI with an introductory workshop. The two projects sharing the MSRI facilities in Autumn 1998 combined in a joint introductory workshop, bringing together themes in Foundations of computational mathematics and in Symbolic computation in geometry and analysis.
The organisers of
the introductory workshop are
The format:
Mornings consisted of brief minicourses, with afternoons
devoted to study in small groups, seminars and informal interaction.
Minicourses in
foundations of computational mathematics
Solving polynomial equations
and in symbolic computation in geometry and analysis
Gröbner bases
Arieh Iserles
Marie-Francoise Roy
Teresa Krick
Michael Singer
Andrew Stuart
Bernd Sturmfels
Manifestations of computational complexity
Homotopy methods
Optimization and interior point
methods
Computational dynamics
Geometric integration
Symbolic solution of
differential eqns
Algebraic analysis
Differential ideal theory
Real algebraic geometry
Combinatorial methods