SIAM AG Minisymposium. Algebraic Geometry of Tensor Decompositions

We are interested in various aspects of tensor decompositions studied under the light of algebraic geometry — complex, real, convex, and tropical.

SIAM AG '13: Fort Collins, CO, August 1–4, 2013

First Session: Thursday, August 1, 3:30pm–6:00pm

Giorgio Ottaviani University of Florence, Italy Counting Singular Vectors of a Multidimensional Tensor
Bernard Mourrain INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Tensor Decomposition, Low Rank Structured Matrix Approximation and Applications
Shmuel Friedland University of Illinois, Chicago On Best (r1,...,rd) Approximation of d-Mode Tensors
Zach Teitler Boise State University Sum Decomposability of Polynomials
Chris Hillar University of California, Berkeley Computational Complexity of Tensor Problems

Second Session: Friday, August 2, 3:30pm–6:00pm

Harm Derksen University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ranks and Nuclear Norms of Tensors
Jan Draisma Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Higher Secants of Sato's Grassmannian
Bruce Reznick University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Writing Forms as Sums of Higher Powers of Lower Degree Forms
Adam Ginensky MEB Options and EESAT Equations of Secant Varieties
Hirotachi Abo University of Idaho On Waring's Problem for Systems of Skew-Symmetric Forms

Third Session: Saturday, August 3, 3:30pm–6:00pm

Chris Peterson Colorado State University Algorithms for Tensor Decomposition via Numerical Homotopy and Optimization
Luke Oeding University of California, Berkeley Eigenvectors of Tensors and Waring Decomposition
Ke Ye University of Chicago The Decomposition of a Matrix into Toeplitz Matrices
Jacob Turner Pennsylvania State University Contracting Tensor Networks
Greg Blekherman Georgia Institute of Technology Real Rank of Real Symmetric Tensors

SIAM AG '11: Raleigh, NC, October 6–8, 2011

First Session: Thursday, October 6, 9:30am–12:00pm

Giorgio Ottaviani University of Florence, Italy Decompositions of Tensors of Small Rank
Bernard Mourrain INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Border Bases, Hilbert Scheme and Tensor Decomposition
Daniel Erman Stanford University Tensor Complexes
Dustin Cartwright Yale University Secant Varieties of Segre-Veronese Varieties
Adam Ginensky WH Trading Determinantal Equations for Secant Varieties

Second Session: Thursday, October 6, 3:30pm–6:00pm

Harm Derksen University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Kruskal's Uniqueness Inequality is Sharp
Ke Ye Texas A&M University The Geometry of Tensor Networks
Shmuel Friedland University of Illinois, Chicago A Proof of the Set-theoretic Version of a Salmon Conjecture
Jan Draisma Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands A Tropical Approach to Secant Dimensions
Hirotachi Abo University of Idaho Recent Progress on the Study of Secant Defectivity of Segre-Veronese Varieties

Third Session: Friday, October 7, 3:30pm–6:00pm

Bruce Reznick University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Some Non-minimal Canonical Representations of Forms as a Sum of Powers of Linear Forms
Zach Teitler Boise State University Ranks and Generalized Ranks
Chris Peterson Colorado State University Geometry of Tensors and Numerical Decomposition
John Rhodes University of Alaska, Fairbanks Stochastic Models, Tensor Rank, and Inequalities
Luke Oeding University of California, Berkeley Toward a Salmon Conjecture

Contact

For further information on this meeting, please email Lek-Heng Lim at lekheng(at)galton.uchicago.edu