Algebraic and geometric methods in discrete mathematics / [edited by] Heather A. Harrington, Mohamed Omar and Matthew Wright.

Includes bibliographical references.

Eigenconfigurations of tensors / Hirotachi Abo, Anna Seigal and Bernd Sturmfels -- Sum of squares basis pursuit with linear and second order cone programming / Amir Ali Ahmadi and Georgina Hall -- Helly's theorem: New variations and applications / Nina Amenta, Jesâus A. De Loera and Pablo Soberón -- Representation theory of the symmetric group in voting theory and game theory / Karl-Dieter Crisman and Michael E. Orrison -- Modeling the distribution of distance data in Euclidean space / Ruth Davidson, Joseph Rusinko, Zoe Vernon and Jing Xi -- Geometric combinatorics and computational molecular biology: Branching polytopes for RNA sequences / Elizabeth Drellich, Andrew Gainer-Dewar, Heather A. Harrington, Qijun He, Christine Heitsch and Svetlana Poznanović -- Polyhedral approaches to learning Bayesian networks / David Haws, James Cussens and Milan Studený -- Neural network coding of natural images with applications to pure mathematics / Christopher J. Hillar and Sarah E. Marzen -- Proving Tucker's Lemma with a volume argument / Beauttie Kuture, Oscar Leong, Christopher Loa, Mutiara Sondjaja and Francis Edward Su -- Factorization invariants in numerical monoids / Christopher O'Neill and Roberto Pelayo -- A survey of discrete methods in (algebraic) statistics for networks / Sonja Petrović.

Contains the proceedings of the AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Applied Discrete Mathematics, held January 2015. The papers present connections between techniques from "pure" mathematics and various applications amenable to the analysis of discrete models, encompassing applications of combinatorics, topology, algebra, geometry, optimization, and representation theory.