Workshops

Fall 2014

Tensors in Computer Science and Geometry

Nov 10, 2014 to Nov 14, 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 10th, 2014
8:30 am–8:50 am		Coffee and Check-in
8:50 am–9:00 am		Opening Remarks
9:00 am–9:50 am		The Average Number of Critical Rank-One Approximations to a Tensor Jan Draisma, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
9:50 am–10:20 am		Break/Discussions
10:20 am–11:10 am		The Geometry of the Identifiability of Tensors Luca Chiantini, University of Siena
11:10 am–11:40 am		Break/Discussions
11:40 am–12:30 pm		Elementary Results on Maximal, Generic and Typical Ranks Grigoriy Blekherman, Georgia Institute of Technology
12:30 pm–2:30 pm		Lunch
2:30 pm–3:20 pm		Characters of Equivariant D-modules on Veronese Cones Claudiu Raicu, University of Notre Dame
3:20 pm–3:50 pm		Break/Discussions
3:50 pm–4:40 pm		Siegel's Theorem, Edge Coloring, and a Holant Dichotomy Jin-Yi Cai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
5:00 pm–6:00 pm		Reception

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-in
9:00 am–9:50 am		NP-Hardness of Nuclear Norms for Tensors Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois at Chicago
9:50 am–10:20 am		Break/Discussions
10:20 am–11:10 am		Matrix Multiplication: Coppersmith-Winograd and Beyond Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Stanford University
11:10 am–11:40 am		Break/Discussions
11:40 am–12:30 pm		Towards a Complete Classification of Multipartite Entanglement Gilad Gour, University of Calgary
12:30 pm–2:30 pm		Lunch
2:30 pm–3:20 pm		Entanglement Polytopes David Gross, University of Freiburg
3:20 pm–3:50 pm		Break/Discussions
3:50 pm–4:40 pm		Tensors and Complexity in Quantum Information Science Akimasa Miyake, University of New Mexico

Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-in
9:00 am–9:50 am		Geometry and Upper Bounds for the Complexity of Matrix Multiplication Joseph M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University
9:50 am–10:20 am		Break/Discussions
10:20 am–11:10 am		Approaches to Bounding the Exponent of Matrix Multiplication Chris Umans, California Institute of Technology
11:10 am–11:40 am		Break/Discussions
11:40 am–12:30 pm		Powers of Tensors and Fast Matrix Multiplication Francois Le Gall, University of Tokyo
12:30 pm–2:30 pm		Lunch
2:30 pm–3:20 pm		Progress on Strassen's Conjecture Enrico Carlini, Monash University and Poltiecnico di Torino
3:20 pm–3:50 pm		Break/Discussions
3:50 pm–4:40 pm		On Strassen's Conjecture Elisa Postinghel, University of Leuven

Thursday, November 13th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-in
9:00 am–9:50 am		Rank, Border Rank, Smoothable Rank and Cactus Rank Jaroslaw Buczynksi, Polish Academy of Science
9:50 am–10:20 am		Break/Discussions
10:20 am–11:10 am		Cactus Varieties of Cubic Forms: Apolar Local Artinian Gorenstein Rings Alessandra Bernardi, Università di Bologna
11:10 am–11:40 am		Break/Discussions
11:40 am–12:30 pm		Orthogonal Tensor Decomposition Elina Robeva, UC Berkeley
12:30 pm–2:30 pm		Lunch
2:30 pm–3:20 pm		Tensor Decomposition, Sparse Representations and Applications Bernard Mourrain, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
3:20 pm–3:50 pm		Break/Discussions
3:50 pm–4:40 pm		Generating Polynomials and Symmetric Tensor Decompositions Jiawang Nie, UC San Diego

Friday, November 14th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-in
9:00 am–9:50 am		Tensor Decompositions for Estimating Latent Variable Models Sham Kakade, Microsoft Research New England
9:50 am–10:20 am		Break/Discussions
10:20 am–11:10 am		Learning Mixture of Gaussians using Moment Tensor Rong Ge, Microsoft Research New England
11:10 am–11:40 am		Break/Discussions
11:40 am–12:30 pm		Uniqueness of Tensor Decomposition and Identifiability in Mixture Models Aditya Bhaskara, Google Research New York
12:30 pm–2:30 pm		Lunch
2:30 pm–3:20 pm		Smoothed Analysis of Tensor Decompositions Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, Courant Institute NYU
3:20 pm–3:50 pm		Break/Discussions
3:50 pm–4:40 pm		Generalized Singular Values Harm Derksen, University of Michigan