Lecturers.

W. Decker (Saarbrücken Universität, De)

S. Hosten (San Francisco State University, USA)

Organizers.
The School/Workshop is organized by G. Casnati, R. Notari, G. Pistone, M.L. Spreafico. For contacting the organizers send a mail to

The School/Workshop is supported by GNSAGA-INdAM and by Dipartimento di Matematica-Università di Ferrara, in the framework of the Project "Geometry on Algebraic Varieties" cofinanced by Italian MIUR.

General informations on the School and Workshop.
The School and the Workshop will take place at

The aim of the Workshop is to discuss the state of art. Interested people are kindly requested to submit the title and an abstract of their Communication within August 28^th to

The School is mainly aimed to Phd students and young researchers in Algebraic Geometry and Statistics, introducing the participants to research, beginning from a basic level with a view towards the applications and to the most recent results. A tentative program is as follows.
Computational Methods in Algebraic Geometry (W. Decker). Groebner basics in SINGULAR: Groebner bases, syzygies and free resolutions, Hilbert functions, dimension, applications to the geometry-algebra dictionary, elimination. Homological algebra: constructive module theory, flatness, Cohen-Macaulay rings. Primary decomposition and normalization. Algorithms in invariant theory. Computing sheaf cohomology and Beilinson monads.
Statistical Models: Algebra, Geometry, and Algorithms (S. Hosten). Introductory concepts: hierarchical models. Higher-dimensional tables and general toric models. Independence models: graphical models, Bayesian networks, and phylogenetic invariants. Design of experiments. Tropical algebraic geometry and the space of all phylogenetic trees. Counting, optimization, and disclosure limitation.

Schedule.
The School will start on Monday, 6^th at 13.00 and it will end on Saturday, 11^th at 12.00. Workshop will start on Thursday 9^th at 14.00 and it will end on Friday 10^th at 12.00. On Thursday evening a social dinner open to the participants of the School/Workshop will be organized.

Registration and Registration Fee.
All the participants must fill in the on line registration form within August, 28^th and pay a registration fee of 100 euros via Bank Transfer

FROM ITALY
Beneficiario: Politecnico di Torino;
Causale: Dipartimento di Matematica - School/Workshop 2004, Prof. Gianfranco Casnati;
Conto Corrente n° 2551101; ABI 02008; CAB 01160; CIN N; Unicredit Banca 8060 TORINO D'OVIDIO Via D'Ovidio 5, Torino.

FROM OUTSIDE ITALY
Account name: Politecnico di Torino;
Description: Dipartimento di Matematica - School/Workshop 2004, Prof. Gianfranco Casnati;
Account number: IBAN IT51N0200801160000002551101; COD. SWIFT UNCRIT2B; Unicredit Banca 8060 TORINO D'OVIDIO Via D'Ovidio 5, Torino.

or Cash at Registration. 

Accomodation.
Possible accomodations (close to Politecnico) are:

We suggest to reserve a room before the end of August.