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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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The Average Number of Critical Rank-One Approximations to a Tensor
Jan Draisma (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven )
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Break/Discussions
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The Geometry of the Identifiability of Tensors
Luca Chiantini, University of Siena
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Break/Discussions
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Elementary Results on Maximal, Generic and Typical Ranks
Grigoriy Blekherman (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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Lunch
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Characters of Equivariant D-modules on Veronese Cones
Claudiu Raicu (University of Notre Dame)
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Break/Discussions
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Siegel's Theorem, Edge Coloring, and a Holant Dichotomy
Jin-Yi Cai (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-in
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NP-Hardness of Nuclear Norms for Tensors
Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Break/Discussions
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Matrix Multiplication: Coppersmith-Winograd and Beyond
Virginia Vassilevska Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Break/Discussions
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Towards a Complete Classification of Multipartite Entanglement
Gilad Gour, University of Calgary
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Lunch
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Entanglement Polytopes
David Gross, University of Freiburg
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Break/Discussions
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Tensors and Complexity in Quantum Information Science
Akimasa Miyake, University of New Mexico
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Coffee and Check-in
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Geometry and Upper Bounds for the Complexity of Matrix Multiplication
JM Landsberg (Texas A&M University)
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Break/Discussions
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Approaches to Bounding the Exponent of Matrix Multiplication
Chris Umans, California Institute of Technology
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Break/Discussions
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Powers of Tensors and Fast Matrix Multiplication
Francois Le Gall, University of Tokyo
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Lunch
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Progress on Strassen's Conjecture
Enrico Carlini, Monash University and Poltiecnico di Torino
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Break/Discussions
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On Strassen's Conjecture
Elisa Postinghel, University of Leuven
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Coffee and Check-in
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Rank, Border Rank, Smoothable Rank and Cactus Rank
Jaroslaw Buczynski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
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Break/Discussions
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Cactus Varieties of Cubic Forms: Apolar Local Artinian Gorenstein Rings
Alessandra Bernardi (University of Trento)
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Break/Discussions
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Orthogonal Tensor Decomposition
Elina Robeva (UC Berkeley)
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Lunch
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Tensor Decomposition, Sparse Representations and Applications
Bernard Mourrain, , INRIA Sophia Antipolis
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Break/Discussions
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Generating Polynomials and Symmetric Tensor Decompositions
Jiawang Nie, UC San Diego
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Coffee and Check-in
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Tensor Decompositions for Estimating Latent Variable Models
Sham Kakade, Microsoft Research New England
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Break/Discussions
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Learning Mixture of Gaussians using Moment Tensor
Rong Ge, Microsoft Research New England
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Break/Discussions
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Uniqueness of Tensor Decomposition and Identifiability in Mixture Models
Aditya Bhaskara, Google Research New York
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Lunch
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Smoothed Analysis of Tensor Decompositions
Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, Courant Institute NYU
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Break/Discussions
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Generalized Singular Values
Harm Derksen, University of Michigan