Applied Algebra Days 1 Schedule of Talks

October 21-23, 2011

University of Wisconsin, Madison


Except for Sturmfels' talk, which is in B102 Van Vleck Hall, all talks will be in the 3rd floor Teaching Lab of WID

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The abstracts.

Friday, October 21

4-5 Bernd Sturmfels, "Multiview Geometry"

5:30-7 Canceled due to cold weather- Informal beer on the Memorial Union Terrace

6:00 On your own for dinner, some of us are going to Husnus on State Street.

Saturday, October 22

9-9:40 Coffea, tea, and registration

9:40-9:45 Official opening

9:45-10:45 Ronny Hadani, "Representation theoretic patterns in three dimensional cryo-electron microscopy"

10:45-11:15 Coffee, tea, and snacks

11:15-11:45 Cynthia Vinzant "The convex hull of a parametrized curve"

11:45-12:15 David Conti, "Algebraic aspects of trellis representations of codes and pseudocodewords"

12:15-12:45 Vitaly Skachek, "Pseudocodeword redundancy of binary linear codes"

12:45-2:30 People make own plans for lunch

2:30-3:30 Pablo Parrilo, "Convex graph invariants and applications"

3:30-4 Risi Kondor, "Solving the quadratic assignment problem in Fourier space"

4:4:30 Coffee, tea, and snacks

4:30-5 Deepti Pachauri, "Fourier space algorithms for risk minimization on coset trees"

5-6 Ben Recht, "Lock-free approaches to parallelizing stochastic gradient descent"

7:30-?? Complementary buffet dinner on 9th floor of Van Vleck Hall.

Sunday, October 23

9:30-10 Oded Schwartz, "Recent progress in communication minimizing algorithms for dense linear algebra"

10-11 Lek-Heng Lim, "Hodge decomposition and the Netflix problem"

11-11:30 Coffee, tea, and snacks

11:30-12:30 Olga Holtz, "Group-theoretic methods in linear algebra"