Algebraic Geometry Boot Camp

Program

Algorithms and Complexity in Algebraic Geometry

Location

Calvin Lab Auditorium

Date

Tuesday, Sept. 2 – Friday, Sept. 5, 2014

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The Boot Camp is intended to acquaint program participants with the key themes of the program.

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

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

8:30 – 8:50 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

8:50 – 9 a.m.

Opening Remarks

9 – 10 a.m.

Introduction to Geometric Complexity Theory I

Laurent Manivel (University of Montreal)

10 – 10:15 a.m.

Discussion

10:15 – 10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Circuits of Bounded Depth

Klim Efremenko (Ben Gurion University)

12 – 12:15 p.m.

Discussion

12:15 – 1:45 p.m.

Lunch

1:45 – 2:45 p.m.

Solving Polynomials I

Jonathan Hauenstein (University of Notre Dame)

2:45 – 3 p.m.

Discussion

3 – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Writing Down Polynomials via Representation Theory I

Christian Ikenmeyer (University of Warwick)

4:30 – 4:45 p.m.

Discussion

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9 – 10 a.m.

Tensor Decomposition I: Tensors and Classical Algebraic Geometry

Luke Oeding (Auburn University)

10 – 10:15 a.m.

Discussion

10:15 – 10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Matrix Multiplication

Virginia Vassilevska Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:15 – 12:30 p.m.

Discussion

12:30 – 2 p.m.

Lunch

2 – 3:15 p.m.

Real Algebraic Geometry

Cynthia Vinzant (University of Washington)

3:15 – 3:30 p.m.

Discussion

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 – 5 p.m.

Tensors vs Entanglement

Matthias Christandl (Microsoft Quantum)

5 – 5:15 p.m.

Discussion

5:15 – 5:30 p.m.

Break

5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Homework Session

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9 – 10 a.m.

Introduction to Geometric Complexity Theory II

Laurent Manivel (University of Montreal)

10 – 10:15 a.m.

Discussion

10:15 – 10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 – 11:45 a.m.

Solving Polynomials II

Jonathan Hauenstein (University of Notre Dame)

11:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Discussion

12 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 3 p.m.

Matrix Rigidity

Satya Lokam (Microsoft Research India, Bangalore)

3 – 3:15 p.m.

Discussion

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 – 4:45 p.m.

Homework Session

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9 – 10 a.m.

Tensor Decomposition II: Algorithms for Tensor Decomposition and Identifiability

Luke Oeding (Auburn University)

10 – 10:15 a.m.

Discussion

10:15 – 10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Matrix Factorizations

David Eisenbud (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and UC Berkeley)

12:15 – 12:30 p.m.

Discussion

12:30 – 2 p.m.

Lunch

2 – 3 p.m.

Writing Down Polynomials via Representation Theory II

Christian Ikenmeyer (University of Warwick)

3 – 3:15 p.m.

Discussion

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 – 5:15 p.m.

Condition

Peter Bürgisser (TU Berlin)