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All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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Topic Modeling: A Provable Spectral Method
Ravi Kannan (Microsoft Research India)
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Break
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Exact Recovery via Convex Relaxations
Moses Charikar (Stanford University)
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Break
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The Impact of Regularization in Spectral Clustering
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Lunch
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Multiscale Analysis on and of Graphs
Mauro Maggioni (Duke University)
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Break
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Multiresolution Graph Models
Risi Kondor, University of Chicago
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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Some Probabilistic Uses of Dirichlet Eigenvectors
Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
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Break
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Independent Component Analysis: From Theory to Practice and Back
Santosh Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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Break
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Tensor Methods for Learning Latent Variable Models: Theory and Practice
Animashree Anandkumar, UC Irvine
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Lunch
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Random Walks on Directed Graphs
Fan Chung (UC San Diego)
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Break
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Random Embeddings, Matrix-valued Kernels and Deep Learning
Vikas Sindhwani, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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Coffee and Check-In
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A Statistical Model for Tensor Principal Component Analysis
Andrea Montanari (Stanford University)
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Break
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Graph Matching: Relax or Not?
Alex Bronstein, Tel Aviv University
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Break
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Random Walks on Simplicial Complexes and Isoperimetric Inequalities
Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University
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Lunch
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Connection Laplacian, Hodge Laplacian, and Tensor Laplacian of a Graph
Lek-Heng Lim (University of Chicago)
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Break
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Discussion and Open Problems
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Coffee and Check-In
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Spectral Algorithms for Learning Latent Variable Models
Sham Kakade, Microsoft Research New England
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Break
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Comparing the Theory and Practice of Spectral Algorithms to Combinatorial Flow Algorithms for Expander Ratio, Normalized Cut, Clustering and Conductance
Dorit Hochbaum (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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On the Estimation of the Cheeger Constant
Ery Arias-Castro, UC San Diego
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Lunch
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Applied Hodge Theory
Yuan Yao, Peking University
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Break
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The Hidden Convexity of Spectral Clustering
Luis Rademacher, Ohio State University
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Break
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Robust Spectral Diffusions for Data Applications
David Gleich (Purdue University)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Learning Functions and Sets with Spectral Regularization
Lorenzo Rosasco, Università di Genova and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Break
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Some Applications in Human Behavior Modeling
Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Break
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Spectral Approaches to Nearest Neighbor Search
Alex Andoni (Columbia University)
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Lunch
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An Efficient Parallel Solver for SDD Linear Systems
Richard Peng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Break
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Graph Based Processing of Big Images
Hui Han Chin, DSO National Laboratories