Bubalus arnee  
  NC Group -- Summer 2011
 
 



  People Email Schedule
  Prof. Bill Helton  [ helton@math.ucsd.edu ]     
  Prof. Jiawang Nie  [ njw@math.ucsd.edu ]   Here   
   chris nelson csnelson@math.ucsd.edu ]   Here  
   Caleb Meier  [  c1meier@math.ucsd.edu   Here  
  Jeremy Greene  [ j1greene@math.ucsd.edu ]   Here  
  Mauricio de Oliveria (The Mma Guru)  [  mauricio@ucsd.edu  ]

  Other Contacts Email
  Mauricio de Oliveria (The Mma Guru)  [  mauricio@ucsd.edu  ]
  Mark Stankus  [ mstankus@math.ucsd.edu ]   Here   

  Retirees
  Vitali Katsnelson  [  vkatsnel@ucsd.edu  ]
  Karl Fredrickson  [ kfredric@math.ucsd.edu ]   Here  
  Raul Gomez  [ r1gomez@math.ucsd.edu ]   Here  
   slava kungurt vkungurt@ucsd.edu  ]   Here  
   Kevin McGown kmcgown@math.ucsd.edu  ]   Here  
   Rohun Kshirsagar rohunak@yahoo.com  ]   Here  
   Dan Budreau  [ dbudreau@math.ucsd.edu  ]   ?  
   Dan McAllaster  [ dmcallas@math.ucsd.edu  ]   Away?  
  Tom Petrillo  [ tpetrill@math.ucsd.edu ]   Here  
Email
  Vladimir Asiyran  [  vasiyran@ucsd.edu  ]
  Nick Slinglend  [ nslingle@math.ucsd.edu ]   Away?  
  Juan Camino (The Guru)  [  camino@fem.unicamp.br  ]
  John Shopple (retired)  [ jshopple@math.ucsd.edu ]
   Jeff Liese (retired)  [ jliese@math.ucsd.edu ]
   Josh Hernandez (retired)  [ jhernand@math.ucsd.edu ]
  Adrian Lim   (retired)  [ plim@math.ucsd.edu ]
  Jeff Ovall  (retired)  [ jovall@math.ucsd.edu ]
  Tony Shaheen  (retired)  [ ashaheen@math.ucsd.edu ]
  Tony Mendes  (retired)  [ amendes@math.ucsd.edu ]
   John Farina   (retired)  [  jfarina@math.ucsd.edu ]

-------------- PROJECTS TABLE ---------

 
 Main Projects  Goals  Primary Workers  Status
 Test NCAlgebra Test it     All  
 NCAlgebra Semi Def Program Test and Analyze     de Oliveria, Nelson, Li Wang  
 isolate 3 simple bad opt probs figure out special structure of bad residuals     , MdeO et al  
  What do the degeneracy conditionslook like for nc problems? What is Wolfowitz size of degeneracy?  use nc structure and more   MdeO et al  
 NC Change of variables Find good experiments     Pascoe  
  NC Convex sets in X when there is another type of variable A Do they have an A dependent LMI rep?     Zimmerman  
  NC Convex Hulls-Lifts How to findem      
  NC Moment matrix Make one in tex, order 2     Kasa (Zimmerman)  
 NC QuasiConvex Funs   Rational quasi-convex functions,  ???  
  Aggregation of 25 polys into one matrix poly.     Meier, Dym  
 Proofreading   ??  ??  
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  Curvature of nc sets defined by matrix polys  ??  
  Lifts to Second Order Cones     backburner-Hard
 ReciprocalLMI, RZminus2   Convex Hull Question  ??  
       

  Speculative Projects
  •     Most of them

  Key Readings

  Numerics with matrix variables

    http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~helton/BILLSPAPERSscanned/CHS06.pdf  ]


    ncSDPlecture.pdf  ]


    wolkowitzSDP11.pdf  ]


    oliveOurSDPjun11.pdf  ]

  Convex sets in two types of variables


    HMcCulloughConvexSets.pdf  ]


    HHLMcTwo types of variables.pdf  ]

  Lifts and Change Variable readings


    nieHeltonLiftExamples.pdf  ]


    nieHeltonLiftExamples.pdf  ]                       .,  

  Other

    slidesSEAM11.pdf  ]


    slidesSEAM11.tex  ]


OLDER STUFF


    Sum of Squares (Parrilo-Lall) - Slides  ]


    Pablo Parrilo's Thesis  ]


    ConvexityChecker  ]


    SurveyOfRAG C and NC ]

  Yet More Papers
   [ Scads of Professor Helton's Papers ]

   [ Scads of Professor Nie's Papers ]
  Our Past
  •     The Summer 2008 NC Group page can be found here
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  •    The Summer 2002 NC Group page can be found here
  •     The Summer 2001 NC Group page can be found here



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