Inverse Moment Problems: the Crossroads of Analysis, Algebra, Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics
(18 November 2013 - 25 January 2014)

Organizing Committee · Visitors and Participants · Overview · Activities · Venue · Enquiries

 

Organizing Committee

 

Co-Chairs

• Dmitrii Pasechnik (Nanyang Technological University)
• Sinai Robins (Nanyang Technological University)

 

Members

• Jean B. Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS)
• Monique Laurent (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
• Jesús De Loera (University of California at Davis)
• Mihai Putinar (Nanyang Technological University)
• Le Hai Khoi (Nanyang Technological University)
• Claus Scheiderer (Universität Konstanz)
• Boris Shapiro (Stockholm University)
• Stephanie Wehner (National University of Singapore)

 

Visitors and Participants

 

• Overseas visitors
• Local visitors
• Graduate students
• Registered local participants

 

Overview

 

Applications of moments of measures in polynomial optimization led to a number of breakthroughs in optimization and real algebraic geometry, as well as to better understanding of ways to encode measures. Other similar threads are recently seen in the theory of intergation on polytopes and counting of integer points in polytopes, as well as in quantum computing. The aim of the program is to further investigate relations between these topics and inverse moment problems, i.e., questions of reconstructing measures from a set of its moments, which are traditionally attacked by purely analytic tools.

 

Activities

• Optimization, Moment Problems and Geometry I (Conference/Workshop/Tutorials): 27 Nov - 6 Dec 2013 & 11 Dec 2013
• Quantum Computing Workshop on Inverse Moment Problem (organized by S. Wehner): 9 - 13 Dec 2013
• Optimization, Moment Problems, and Geometry II (Conference/Workshop): 16 - 27 Dec 2013
• Graduate Student Winter School/Workshop, Featuring Mini-Courses by A. Leykin, J. Stoyanov and J. Yu*: 16 - 24 Dec 2013
  
• Polyhedra, Lattices, Algebra, and Moments (Conference/Workshop/Tutorials): 7 - 16, 23 Jan 2014
• Public Lecture

  Date:	Tuesday, 17 Dec 2013
  Venue:	LT31, Block S16, Level 3, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546
  6:30pm - 7:30pm	A Walk Down the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Streets of Mathematics Bruce Reznick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

 

* Our office will be closed on Wednesday, 25 Dec 2013 and Wednesday, 1 Jan 2014, being Singapore public holiday.

 

Students and researchers who are interested in attending these activities are requested to complete the online registration form.

The following do not need to register:

• Those invited to participate.
• Those applying for financial support.

 

Venue

 

• IMS Auditorium

 

Enquiries

 

For general enquiries, please email us at ims(AT)nus.edu.sg.

For enquiries on scientific aspects of the program, please email
Dmitrii Pasechnik dima(AT)ntu.edu.sg,

Sinai Robins rsinai(AT)ntu.edu.sg,
Stephanie Wehner wehner(AT)comp.nus.edu.sg (for the sub-event on connections with quantum information theory) .

 

Organizing Committee · Visitors and Participants · Overview · Activities · Venue · Enquiries