Frank Vallentin (TU Delft)

Date	Speaker	Title
January 20	Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley)	The convex hull of a space curve.
January 27	Jiawang Nie (UC San Diego)	What convex sets can be represented by semidefinite programming?
February 3	Philipp Rostalski (UC Berkeley)	SDP Relaxations for the Grassmann Orbitope.
February 10	Andy Packard (UC Berkeley)	Quantitative analysis for locally stable nonlinear systems.
February 17	Special Computational Biology:	Mathematical and Computational Biology Seminar
February 24	Approximation algorithms for semidefinite programs with rank constraints.
March 3	Daniel Plaumann (Uni Konstanz/ UC Berkeley)	Positive polynomials and projections of spectrahedra.
March 6 (Saturday)	Special Optimization:	Berkeley Optimization Day
March 10	Cynthia Vinzant (UC Berkeley)	Faces of the Barvinok-Novik orbitope.
March 17	Caroline Uhler (UC Berkeley)	Maximum likelihood estimation in Gaussian graphical models.<\a>
March 24	Spring recess	UC San Diego: The Tutorial Workshop: Linear Matrix Inequalities and Polynomial Optimization (LMIPO)
March 31	Cordian Riener (Uni Frankfurt)	Positive symmetric polynomials.
April 7	Robert G. Littlejohn (UC Berkeley)	Asymptotics of the Wigner 9j symbol.
April 7, 4pm	Pablo Parrilo (MIT)	EECS Colloqium: Consistency of Preferences and Near-Potential Game.
April 14	Raman Sanyal (UC Berkeley)	The Renegar derivative of a polytope.
April 21	Dustin Cartwright (UC Berkeley)	An Algorithm for Finding Positive Solutions to Polynomial Equations.
April 28	Lek-Heng Lim (UC Berkeley)	Higher-order Statistics on Grassmannians.
May 5	Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley)	The number of eigenvalues of a tensor.
May 12	Paul A. Fuhrmann (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)	On tangential matrix interpolation.