• 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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The Average Number of Critical Rank-One Approximations to a Tensor

Jan Draisma (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven )
Video
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Break/Discussions
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The Geometry of the Identifiability of Tensors

Luca Chiantini, University of Siena
Video
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Break/Discussions
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Elementary Results on Maximal, Generic and Typical Ranks

Grigoriy Blekherman (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Video
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Lunch
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Characters of Equivariant D-modules on Veronese Cones

Claudiu Raicu (University of Notre Dame)
Video
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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)
Video
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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
Video
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Break/Discussions
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Matrix Multiplication: Coppersmith-Winograd and Beyond

Virginia Vassilevska Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Video
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Break/Discussions
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Towards a Complete Classification of Multipartite Entanglement

Gilad Gour, University of Calgary
Video
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Lunch
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Entanglement Polytopes

David Gross, University of Freiburg
Video
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Break/Discussions
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Tensors and Complexity in Quantum Information Science

Akimasa Miyake, University of New Mexico
Video
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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)
Video
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Break/Discussions
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Approaches to Bounding the Exponent of Matrix Multiplication

Chris Umans, California Institute of Technology
Video
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Break/Discussions
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Powers of Tensors and Fast Matrix Multiplication

Francois Le Gall, University of Tokyo
Video
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Lunch
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Progress on Strassen's Conjecture

Enrico Carlini, Monash University and Poltiecnico di Torino
Video
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Break/Discussions
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On Strassen's Conjecture

Elisa Postinghel, University of Leuven
Video
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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)
Video
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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)
Video
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Break/Discussions
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Orthogonal Tensor Decomposition

Elina Robeva (UC Berkeley)
Video
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Lunch
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Tensor Decomposition, Sparse Representations and Applications

Bernard Mourrain, ,
INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Video
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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
Video
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Break/Discussions
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Learning Mixture of Gaussians using Moment Tensor

Rong Ge, Microsoft Research New England
Video
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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
Video
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Lunch
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Smoothed Analysis of Tensor Decompositions

Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, Courant Institute NYU
Video
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Break/Discussions
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Generalized Singular Values

Harm Derksen, University of Michigan
Video