Texas Algebraic Geometry Symposium


Texas A&M University 5 – 7 April 2024.



  TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
College of Arts 
& Sciences

Winner of the poster contest:   Michail Savvas.
Runners up:     Tomasz Mandziuk   and   Suhan Zhong.

Posters

Suhan Zhongabstract Polynomial lower approximations for two-stage stochastic optimization
Yeqiu Wangabstract Ample cones of K3 surfaces with higher dimensional generalizations
Michail Savvasabstract Moduli spaces in derived geometry
Filip Rupniewskiabstract Generic border subrank is bigger than generic subrank for large tensors
Jonah Robinsonabstract Invariants of the Dispersion Relation for Discrete Periodic Operators
Tomasz Mandziukabstract Multigraded Hilbert schemes of points in general position
Gari Lincoln Chuaabstract On Stability and Denominators of F-pure Thresholds in Families of Diagonal Hypersurfaces

Abstracts

Suhan Zhong  Polynomial lower approximations for two-stage stochastic optimization
Abstract: It is a challenging problem to find global optimal solutions of nonconvex two-stage stochastic programs. We propose to find an efficient polynomial lower bound function of the recourse function and solve the two-stage stochastic program as polynomial optimization. Such polynomial lower bound functions can be solved by linear conic optimization.

Yeqiu Wang  Ample cones of K3 surfaces with higher dimensional generalizations
Abstract: This poster discusses ample cones of K3 surfaces, their Hilbert schemes, and birational modifications.

Michail Savvas  Moduli spaces in derived geometry
Abstract: Constructing moduli spaces has been a fundamental endeavor within algebraic geometry (and beyond), motivating, among other things, the development of Geometric Invariant Theory in the 1960s and the more general theory of good moduli spaces in the 2000s. This poster presents how the theory extends to the setting of derived algebraic geometry, leading to natural derived enhancements of constructions and structural results for classical moduli spaces. It is based on joint work with Eric Ahlqvist, Jeroen Hekking, and Michele Pernice.

Filip Rupniewski  Relation between subrank and border subrank
Abstract: To measure tensor complexity, multiple notions of ranks were introduced, such as tensor rank and subrank. Tensors with a high value (subrank) and low cost (tensor rank) are very desirable. They are used (in laser method) to construct the fastest algorithms for matrix multiplication. The poster discusses the relationship between subrank and its border version, as well as their various properties such as the non-additivity of (border) subrank and the growth rate of generic (border) subrank. Based on the joint work with Benjamin Biaggi, Chia-Yu Chang and Jan Draisma (https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10674).

Jonah Robinson  Invariants of the Dispersion Relation for Discrete Periodic Operators
Abstract: We utilize tools of computational algebraic geometry to study the dispersion relation for discrete Schrödinger operators with generic parameters on various periodic graphs, with the goal of better understanding the geometry of critical points of the Bloch variety. In pursuit of this goal we study various invariants of the dispersion relation; such as Newton polytope, singular and degenerate loci, and the singular loci of its facial systems. Our investigations were carried out using Macaulay2 and the Texas A&M Mathematics department's computational cluster, Whistler, enabling us to harvest data for all small graphs with various fixed supports. We present various phenomena observed in this study as well as several conjectures arising from these observations.

Tomasz Mandziuk  Multigraded Hilbert schemes of points in general position
Abstract: Given a product of projective spaces X and a positive integer r we consider the parameter space of homogeneous ideals in the coordinate ring of X that have the same Hilbert function as r points in general position in X. We classify for which X and r the parameter space is irreducible. The work is motivated by border apolarity which establishes a connection between a distinguished irreducible component of the parameter space that we consider and the notion of border rank.

Gari Lincoln Chua  On Stability and Denominators of F-pure Thresholds in Families of Diagonal Hypersurfaces
Abstract: The F-pure threshold of a polynomial f of characteristic p> 0 is an invariant of the singularities of f, with smaller values corresponding to worse singularities. In many cases, the F-pure threshold is a rational number, and questions about the denominator of the F-pure threshold have been asked. In this poster, we investigate a family of polynomials whose F-pure thresholds stabilize for some primes and whose prime power in the denominators is unbounded. In particular, given any prime p, we can find a family of polynomials such that their F-pure thresholds are powers of p, with no uniform bound on the power appearing in the denominator.