Workshops

Fall 2014

Symbolic and Numerical Methods for Tensors and Representation Theory

Nov 17, 2014 to Nov 20, 2014

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

Monday, November 17th, 2014
9:00 am–9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am–9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am–10:30 am		Macaulay 2 Tutorial I Daniel Grayson, University of Illinois, Urbana‑Champaign and Michael Stillman, Cornell University
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Macaulay 2 Tutorial II Daniel Grayson, University of Illinois, Urbana‑Champaign and Michael Stillman, Cornell University
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:30 pm		A Few Computational Tools for Tensor Rank and Tensor Decomposition Giorgio Ottaviani, Università di Firenze
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–4:00 pm		Problem Session
4:00 pm–5:30 pm		Reception

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		Geometry of Symmetric Bivariate Tensors of Fixed Typical Rank Grigoriy Blekherman, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Schemes Associated with Eigenvectors of Tensors Hirotachi Abo, University of Idaho
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:30 pm		Tensors in Algebraic Statistics Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–5:00 pm		Problem Session

Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		Parliaments of Polytopes and Toric Vector Bundles Greg Smith, Queen's University
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Kronecker Coefficients — Computation and Bounds Greta Panova, University of Pennsylvania
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:30 pm		Tensors, Secant Varieties and Interpolation Elisa Postinghel, University of Leuven
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–5:00 pm		Algebraic Fitness Session

Thursday, November 20th, 2014
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		Computing Sheaf Cohomology for Products of Projective Spaces Daniel Erman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Determinantal Circuits Jason Morton, Pennsylvania State University
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:30 pm		Problem Session
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–4:00 pm		Wrap-up Session