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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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Invariant Theory for Computer Scientists
Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
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Break
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The GCT Program: Recent Developments and Some Concrete Open Problems
Ketan Mulmuley (The University of Chicago)
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Lunch
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Geometric Complexity Theory: No Occurrence Obstructions for Determinant vs Permanent
Peter Bürgisser (Technical University of Berlin)
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Break
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Orbits of Monomials and Factorization into Products of Linear Forms
Pascal Koiran (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
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Proof Complexity Lower Bounds from Graph Expansion and Combinatorial Games
Jakob Nordström (University of Copenhagen & Lund University)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Limits on All Known (and Some Unknown) Approaches to Matrix Multiplication
Virginia Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Break
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Deterministic Factorization of Sparse Polynomials with Bounded Individual Degree
Vishwas Bhargava (Rutgers University)
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An Instance of Symbolic Determinant Identity Testing via *-algebras
Youming Qiao (University of Technology, Sydney)
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Lunch
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Kronecker and Plethysm Coefficients in Geometric Complexity Theory: Permanent vs Determinant and Matrix Powering
Greta Panova (University of Pennsylvania)
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Break
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Recent Progress on Representation Theoretic Multiplicities in GCT
Christian Ikenmeyer (University of Warwick)
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Generalized Matrix Completion and Algebraic Natural Proofs
Markus Bläser (Universität des Saarlandes)
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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Proper Learning Algorithms from Lower Bounds for Arithmetic Circuits
Neeraj Kayal (Microsoft Research India)
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Break
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Fine-Grained Algorithms and Complexity of Solving Polynomial Systems of Equations
Ryan Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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An Improved Depth Reduction for Syntactically Multilinear Circuits
Mrinal Kumar (Harvard University)
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Lunch
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Reconstruction of Non-Degenerate Homogeneous Depth Three Circuits
Chandan Saha (Indian Institute of Science)
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Break
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A PSPACE Construction of a Hitting Set for the Closure of Small Algebraic Circuits
Michael Forbes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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Algebraic Dependence is Not Hard (& Filling the GCT Chasm)
Nitin Saxena (IIT Kanpur)
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Open Problem Session
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Coffee and Check-In
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Analyzing Alternating Minimization Algorithms Using Algebraic Methods
Ankit Garg (Princeton University)
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PIT Questions in Invariant Theory
Rafael Mendes de Oliveira (University of Waterloo)
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Break
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Complete Derandomization of Identity Testing of Read-Once Formulas
Ilya Volkovich (University of Michigan)
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Formal Series and Non-Commutative Computations
Guillaume Malod (Université Paris Diderot)
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Lunch
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Barriers for Rank Methods in Arithmetic Complexity
Klim Efremenko (Ben Gurion University)
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Break
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Generic vs Symbolic Behaviour, and Power Series Expansion
Visu Makam (Institute for Advanced Study)
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Near-Optimal Bootstrapping of Hitting Sets
Ramprasad Saptharishi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Small-Depth Multilinear Formula Lower Bounds for Iterated Matrix Multiplication with Applications
Nutan Limaye (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
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Break
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Complexity of Separation of Variables and Splitting of Monomials
Leonid Gurvits (City University of New York)
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Lunch
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Torus Quotients in the Grassmannian
K. V. Subrahmanyam (Chennai Mathematical Institute)
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Break
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Fast Exact Algorithms Using Hadamard Product of Polynomials
Vikraman Arvind (Institute of Mathematical Sciences)