This workshop was a joint effort of both special semesters that have been held concurrently at MSRI, Foundations of computational mathematics and Symbolic computation in geometry and analysis. The organisers were
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Jean-Pierre Dedieu | (madedieu@math.cityu.edu.hk) |
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Marie-Francoise Roy | (costeroy@univ-rennes1.fr) |
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Mike Shub | (mshub@us.ibm.com) |
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Bernd Sturmfels | (bernd@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp) |
The invited speakers at the workshop were
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D. Bini (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): |
"Numerical approximation of polynomial roots" | |
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W. Decker (Universitaet des Saarlands): |
"Primary decomposition: The state of the art" | |
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J.-C. Faugere (Université Paris VI): |
"New generations of Gröbner basis algorithms" | |
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L. Gonzales-Vega (Universidad Santander): |
"Polynomial systems in industry: some concrete examples" | |
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T.-Y. Li (Michigan State University): |
"Polyhedral homotopies" | |
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J.-P. Merlet (INRIA, Nice): |
"Applications to mechanism theory, molecular chemistry and signal processing" | |
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L.M. Pardo (Universidad Santander): |
"Symbolic solving: getting closer to the barrier" | |
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S. Smale (City University of Hong Kong): |
"Some aspects of complexity for equation solving" | |
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F. Sottile (University of Toronto): |
"Schubert calculus and control theory" | |
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M. Todd (Cornell University): |
"Designing efficient homotopy algorithms using Riemannian geometry" |
with additional lectures and software demonstrations during the afternoons.