CBMS Conference on “Applications of Polynomial Systems”

Principal Lecturer:  Professor David Cox 
When:  June 4-8, 2018
Location:  Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 
Website:  http://faculty.tcu.edu/gfriedman/cbms2018/

The conference will feature a series of ten lectures by Professor David Cox on topics 
including elimination theory, polynomial systems in the real world, geometric modeling, 
geometric constraint theory, and chemical reaction networks. Follow up lectures will be 
given by other leading experts including Carlos D’Andrea, Jonathan Hausenstein, Hal 
Schenck, Jessica Sidman, and Alicia Dickenstein. The conference will also feature a problem 
session, software demonstration, and poster session.  

The CBMS and NSF have generously provided funding for the conference, including funds for 
travel and lodging of attendees. To apply for funding, please visit the conference website. 
Graduate students, recent PhDs, and members of underrepresented groups in mathematics 
are especially encouraged to apply.

Sponsored by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, each five-day conference 
in the Regional Conference series features a distinguished lecturer who delivers ten lectures 
on a topic of important current research in one sharply focused area of the mathematical 
sciences; the lecturer subsequently prepares an expository monograph based upon these 
lectures. The principal lecturer for this conference will be David A. Cox, the William J. 
Walker Professor of Mathematics at Amherst College.  Professor Cox is a world-renowned 
master expositor and award-winning author of several popular and highly-cited books in the 
mathematical area of applied algebraic geometry. Professor Cox’s lectures will discuss 
historical developments in this field in light of modern perspectives, leading right up to 
current research and applications to such diverse fields as computer aided design, rigidity of 
mechanical linkages, and chemical reaction networks. Each pair of lectures by Professor Cox 
will develop a chosen topic and be followed by a further lecture by a specialist he has hand-
picked to provide a deeper look at the forefront of current work on that topic. 

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