3:00-4:00pm Jon Hauenstein (NCSU) and Jose Rodriguez (UC Berkeley), "Maximum Likelihood using Bertini". 4:00-5:00pm David Dynerman (Wisconsin), "Semi-algebraic geometry of common lines". 5:00-6:00pm Ngoc Tran (UT Austin), "Zeros of random tropical polynomials and stick-breaking". For more detail and abstracts...