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

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 (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)
Video
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Break
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Exact Recovery via Convex Relaxations

Moses Charikar (Stanford University)
Video
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Break
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The Impact of Regularization in Spectral Clustering
Video
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Lunch
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Multiscale Analysis on and of Graphs

Mauro Maggioni (Duke University)
Video
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Break
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Multiresolution Graph Models

Risi Kondor, University of Chicago
Video
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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)
Video
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Break
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Tensor Methods for Learning Latent Variable Models: Theory and Practice

Animashree Anandkumar, UC Irvine
Video
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Lunch
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Random Walks on Directed Graphs

Fan Chung (UC San Diego)
Video
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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
Video
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Coffee and Check-In
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A Statistical Model for Tensor Principal Component Analysis

Andrea Montanari (Stanford University)
Video
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Break
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Graph Matching: Relax or Not?

Alex Bronstein, Tel Aviv University
Video
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Break
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Random Walks on Simplicial Complexes and Isoperimetric Inequalities

Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University
Video
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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)
Video
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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
Video
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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)
Video
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Break
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On the Estimation of the Cheeger Constant

Ery Arias-Castro, UC San Diego
Video
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Lunch
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Applied Hodge Theory

Yuan Yao, Peking University
Video
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Break
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The Hidden Convexity of Spectral Clustering

Luis Rademacher, Ohio State University
Video
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Break
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Robust Spectral Diffusions for Data Applications

David Gleich (Purdue University)
Video
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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
Video
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Break
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Some Applications in Human Behavior Modeling

Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Video
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Break
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Spectral Approaches to Nearest Neighbor Search

Alex Andoni (Columbia University)
Video
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Lunch
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An Efficient Parallel Solver for SDD Linear Systems

Richard Peng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Video
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Break
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Graph Based Processing of Big Images

Hui Han Chin, DSO National Laboratories
Video