Thursday, May 22
Morning session: McKenna Hall - Seminar Room 100-104
8:00-9:00 am Coffee and Registration
9:00-9:30 am Welcoming remarks
Joseph Marino, Dean, College of Science, Notre Dame
William Dwyer, Chair, Dept. of Mathematics, Notre Dame
9:30-10:30 am Charles Wampler - General Motors
From isolated solutions to positive dimensions and back again: A brief history of numerical algebraic geometry
10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 pm Mauro Beltrametti - Università di Genova
A view on extending morphisms from ample divisors
Lunch Break (on your own) Afternoon session: McKenna Hall - Auditorium
2:00-3:00 pm Chris Peterson - Colorado State University
Encoding and decoding of algebro-geometric data
3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break
Seminar room 100-104 open for informal interactions
3:30-4:30 pm Jaroslaw Wisniewski – Warsaw University
Algebraic geometry and phylogenetics
4:30-5:00 pm Second Chances
6:00-9:00 pm Party at Andrew & Rebecca Sommese's home