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Optimization Under Symmetry
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Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling
Date
Monday, Nov. 29
–
Friday, Dec. 3, 2021
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Monday, Nov. 29, 2021
9
–
9:20 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:20
–
9:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
9:30
–
10:30 a.m.
Norm Minimization, Invariant Theory, And Quantum Tomography
Cole Franks (MIT)
10:30
–
11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Computing The Nc-Rank Via Discrete Convex Optimization On Cat(0) Spaces
Hiroshi Hirai (University of Tokyo)
12
–
2 p.m.
Lunch
2
–
2:30 p.m.
Near Optimal Sample Complexity For Matrix And Tensor Normal Models Via Geodesic Convexity
Akshay Ramachandran (University of Amsterdam)
2:30
–
3 p.m.
Break
3
–
4 p.m.
Constrained Optimization On Riemannian Manifolds
Melanie Weber (Oxford, Mathematical Institute)
4
–
5 p.m.
Reception
Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:30 a.m.
Continuous Maximum Entropy Distributions
Jonathan Leake (Weierstrass Institute Berlin)
10:30
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11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Sampling Matrices From Harish-Chandra-Itzykson-Zuber Densities
Colin McSwiggen (Courant Institute, New York University)
12
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2 p.m.
Lunch
2
–
3 p.m.
A Productization Property/Trick For H-Stable(And Hopefully Strongly Log-Concave) Polynomials
Leonid Gurvits (City College of New York)
3
–
3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30
–
4:30 p.m.
Groups And Symmetries In Statistical Models
Anna Seigal (Harvard University)
Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021
9
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9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:30 a.m.
Complexity Of Computing Complex Zeros Of Structured Polynomial Systems
Peter Buergisser (TU Berlin)
10:30
–
11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Two Tensor Optimization Problems From Quantum Information
Matthias Christandl (University of Copenhagen)
12
–
2 p.m.
Lunch
2
–
3 p.m.
The Kronecker Coefficients Of The Symmetric Group In Complexity And Combinatorics
Greta Panova (University of Southern California)
3
–
3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30
–
4:30 p.m.
Matrix Multiplication, And The Asymptotic Spectrum Of Tensors
Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:30 a.m.
On The Polyhedral Geometry Of Pivot Rules
Raman Sanyal (Goethe University Frankfurt)
10:30
–
11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Optimization On Tensor Network Varieties
Fulvio Gesmundo (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences)
12
–
2 p.m.
Lunch
2
–
2:30 p.m.
Symmetry Adapted Gram Spectrahedra
Serkan Hosten (San Francisco State University)
Friday, Dec. 3, 2021
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:30 a.m.
Equivariant RL
Max Welling (University of Amsterdam)
10:30
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11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Equivariant Machine Learning Structured Like Classical Physics
Soledad Villar (Johns Hopkins)
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