Bay Area Discrete Math Day, Fall 2009

Cal State University East Bay

124 Valley Business and Technology Center

Saturday, October 17, 2009

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The Nineteenth Bay Area Discrete Math Day (BADMath Day) will take place on Saturday, October 17, 2007 between 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM, in room 124 of the Valley Business and Techology Center at Cal State University East Bay

BADMath Days are one-day meetings aimed at facilitating communication between researchers and graduate students of discrete mathematics around the San Francisco Bay Area. These days happen twice a year and strive to create an informal atmosphere to talk about discrete mathematics. The term "discrete mathematics" is chosen to include at least the following topics: Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Discrete Geometry, Graph Theory, Coding and Design Theory, Combinatorial Aspects of Computational Algebra and Geometry, Combinatorial Optimization, Probabilistic Combinatorics, Combinatorial Aspects of Statistics, and Combinatorics in Mathematical Physics.

Poster

Click here for a printable version of the poster. Please feel free to print it out and post it in your department.

Directions and parking

Directions to Cal State East Bay can be found on the CSUEB website. The Valley Business and Technology Center can be found on the following map. Parking lots are also indicated on that map; we recommend that you park in parking lot F. If you are driving, you will need a permit. The cost is $7 for the day and permits can be bought at the machines in the parking lots. See the map for details. On the map, the parking ticket machines are denoted with a blue triangle. The machines in lots E2 and G accept both cash and credit cards.

CSUEB can be easily accessed by public transit. Simply take the BART to the Hayward Station, and then take the 92 bus up the hill to campus.

Carpooling

If you need a ride, or if you are able to give rides, please contact your local member of the BADMath Committee.

Registration

There is no registration fee, but it is essential that you register (using the form below) on or before Monday, October 5.

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

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Speakers and schedule

The schedule is listed below. For abstracts, scroll over the title or, to see all at once, go to the abstracts page.

9:00-10:00am Welcome and refreshments
10:00-10:30am Hannah Markwig
MSRI/Georg August University Göttingen		 Wall-crossing formulas for tropical Hurwitz numbers
10:45-11:15am Raman Sanyal
UC Berkeley		 Orbitopes
11:30-12:30pm Tom Edmunds
Lawrence Livermore National Labs		 Math for the Good Guys: Applications for Counterterrorism and Arms Control
12:30- 2:00pm Lunch: provided on-site
2:00- 2:30pm Josephine Yu
MSRI/MIT		 On a parametrization of positive semidefinite matrices with zeros
2:45- 3:15pm Matthias Koeppe
UC Davis		 Generating functions in optimization and game theory
3:15- 4:00pm Coffee and tea
4:00- 5:00pm Dmitry Kozlov
MSRI/Bremen University		 A few themes from Combinatorial Algebraic Topology
Professor Kozlov's book
6:00- 8:00pm Dinner at Chef's Experience China Bistro (subsidized D.E. Shaw)

Food

Lunch (free) will be provided on-site. There will be a conference dinner at Chef's Experience China Bistro (kindly subsidized by D.E. Shaw). Everyone is welcome to attend. Both will be vegetarian and vegan-friendly, but please remember to include your dietary needs in the registration form.

The BADMath Committee:

The Nineteenth Bay Area Discrete Mathematics Day is kindly sponsored by Cal State East Bay Mathematics , and D. E. Shaw