<div dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Dear all,</font><div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">I would like to advertise the 2-day 2023 AMS Short Course "Polynomial systems, homotopy continuation and applications", which will take place in Boston Jan 2--3 2023. Though it's happening fairly soon, there's still plenty of time for you to register. We welcome participants with all types of backgrounds, not just mathematicians :)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">In brief, "homotopy continuation" refers to a family of numerical methods for solving polynomial systems of equations. They played a pretty big role in the <a href="https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2022/papers/Hruby_Learning_To_Solve_Hard_Minimal_Problems_CVPR_2022_paper.pdf">2022 CVPR best paper.</a> If you find yourself wanting to learn more about these methods, then this event was made for you!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Please forward to those you think will be interested, and feel free to email me personally with any questions: <a href="mailto:timduff@uw.edu">timduff@uw.edu</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Best regards,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Tim</font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif">Website: <a href=" http://www.ams.org/meetings/shortcourse/short-course-general">http://www.ams.org/meetings/shortcourse/short-course-general</a></font></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3dd92128-7fff-89a3-623e-1988039e50ca"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Date: <b>Jan 2–3 2023</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Location: </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, and Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Speakers:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jonathan Hauenstein, Introduction to homotopy continuation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anton Leykin, Numerical algebraic geometry toolbox</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Silviana Amethyst, Numerical algebraic geometry in Bertini</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jose Rodriguez, Maximum likelihood degrees: statistics, topology, and algebra</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Julia Lindberg, Numerical algebraic geometry for the power flow equations</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mark Plecnik, Kinematic design</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Description: </span><span style="color:rgb(37,40,43);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Systems of multivariate polynomial equations are ubiquitous throughout mathematics and neighboring scientific fields such as kinematics, computer vision, power flow systems, and more. Numerical homotopy continuation methods are a fundamental technique for both solving these polynomial systems and determining more refined information about their structure. This two-day short course </span><span style="color:rgb(37,40,43);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">will offer six introductory lectures on the theory of polynomial systems, homotopy continuation, and various applications. </span></p><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration: </span><a href="https://ebus.ams.org/ebus/Meetings/MeetingDetails.aspx?productId=1276015687&_ga=2.231529503.1414695764.1668646135-938094127.1664823762" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please register for the short course here.</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Note that the registration fee is separate from the JMM main conference. <b>Discounted rates</b> are available to AMS members and early registrants <b>before December 20.</b> Late/on-site registration is also possible: see </span><a href="https://www.ams.org/meetings/shortcourse/short-course-general?_ga=2.156554555.1414695764.1668646135-938094127.1664823762" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Short Course Website</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for more details.</span></font></span><br></div></div>