Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Unitobler, F-121
52 seats, 100m^2
Date: Tuesday, 09/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS172, part 1: Algebraic statistics
Location: Unitobler, F-121
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Algebraic Statistics

Chair(s): Jose Israel Rodriguez (UW Madison), Elizabeth Gross (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Testing model fit for networks: algebraic statistics of mixture models and beyond

Sonja Petrovic
IIT

 

Oriented Gaussoids

Thomas Kahle
OvGU Magdeburg

 

Ideals of Gaussian Graphical Models

Seth Sullivant
NCSU

 

Combinatorial matrix theory in structural equation models

Marc Harkonen
Georgia Tech

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS157, part 1: Graphical models
Location: Unitobler, F-121
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Graphical Models

Chair(s): Elina Robeva (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Brownian motion tree models are toric

Piotr Zwiernik
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

Algebra and statistical learning for inferring phylogenetic networks

Elizabeth Gross
University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

Geometry of max-linear graphical models

Carlos Amendola
Technical University Munich

 

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Toric Fano Varieties motivated by phylogenetics

Dimitra Kosta
University of Glasgow


Date: Wednesday, 10/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS172, part 2: Algebraic statistics
Location: Unitobler, F-121
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Algebraic Statistics

Chair(s): Jose Israel Rodriguez (UW Madison), Elizabeth Gross (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Geometry of Exponential Graph Models

Ha Khanh Nguyen
The Ohio State University

 

Moment Varieties of Measures on Polytopes

Kathlén Kohn
University of Oslo

 

The stratification of the maximum likelihood degree for toric varieties

Serkan Hosten
SFSU

 

Nested Determinantal Constraints in Linear Structural Equation Models

Elina Robeva
MIT

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS157, part 2: Graphical models
Location: Unitobler, F-121
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Graphical Models

Chair(s): Elina Robeva (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Interventional Markov Equivalence for Mixed Graph Models

Liam Solus
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

 

Sequential Monte Carlo-based inference in decomposable graphical models

Jimmy Olsson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

 

CausalKinetiX: Learning stable structures in kinetic systems

Jonas Peters
University of Copenhagen

 

Autoencoders memorize training images

Caroline Uhler
MIT


Date: Thursday, 11/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS194: Latent graphical models
Location: Unitobler, F-121
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Latent graphical models

Chair(s): Piotr Zwiernik (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Latent-variable graphical modeling with generalized linear models

Venkat Chandrasekaran
California Institute of Technology

 

Representation of Markov kernels with deep graphical models

Guido Montúfar
University of California Los Angeles

 

Conditional independence statements with hidden variables

Fatemeh Mohammadi
Bristol University

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS139, part 1: Combinatorics and algorithms in decision and reason
Location: Unitobler, F-121
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Combinatorics and algorithms in decision and reason

Chair(s): Liam Solus (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Svante Linusson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

(Machine) Learning Non-Linear Algebra

Jesus De Loera
University of California, Davis

 

Network Flows in Semi-Supervised Learning via Total Variation Minimization

Alexander Jung
Aalto University

 

Scalably vertex-programmable ideological forests from certain political twitterverses around US (2016), UK(2017) and Swedish (2018) national elections

Raazesh Sainudiin
Uppsala University

 

The Kingman Coalescent as a density on a space of trees

Lena Walter
Freie Universität Berlin


Date: Friday, 12/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS198: Positive and negative association
Location: Unitobler, F-121
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Positive and negative association

Chair(s): Caroline Uhler (MIT), Cynthia Vinzant (North Carolina State)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Negative dependence and sampling

Stephanie Jegelka
MIT

 

Log-concave polynomials: Polynomials that a drunkard can (almost) evaluate

Nima Anari1, Kuikui Liu2, Shayan Oveis Gharan2, Cynthia Vinzant3
1Stanford, 2U. Washington, 3North Carolina State

 

Total positivity in structured binary distributions

Steffen Lauritzen1, Caroline Uhler2, Piotr Zwiernik3
1University of Copenhagen, 2MIT, 3Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

Geometric problems in non-parametric statistics

Elina Robeva1, Bernd Sturmfels2, Ngoc Tran3, Caroline Uhler1
1MIT, 2MPI Leipzig, UC Berkeley, 3U Texas, Austin

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS139, part 2: Combinatorics and algorithms in decision and reason
Location: Unitobler, F-121
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Combinatorics and algorithms in decision and reason

Chair(s): Liam Solus (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Svante Linusson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

On the Graphs of Graphical Models

Rina Dechter
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine

 

Causal Inference with Unknown Intervention Targets

Yuhao Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

On attempts to characterize facets of the chordal graph polytope

Milan Studeny
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic


Date: Saturday, 13/Jul/2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
MS196: Algebro-geometric methods for social network modelling
Location: Unitobler, F-121
 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Algebro-geometric methods for social network modelling

Chair(s): Kayvan Sadeghi (University College London, United Kingdom)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

Goodness-of-fit testing for log-linear network models

Despina Stasi
Illinois Institute of Technology

 

Cores, shell indices and the degeneracy of a graph limit

Johannes Rauh
Max-Plack Institute

 

On Exchangeability in Network Models

Kayvan Sadeghi
University College London, United Kingdom

3:00pm
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5:00pm
MS139, part 3: Combinatorics and algorithms in decision and reason
Location: Unitobler, F-121
 
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Combinatorics and algorithms in decision and reason

Chair(s): Liam Solus (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Svante Linusson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

 

(25 minutes for each presentation, including questions, followed by a 5-minute break; in case of x<4 talks, the first x slots are used unless indicated otherwise)

 

From random forests to regulatory rules: extracting interactions in high-dimensional genomic data

Karl Kumbier
University of California, Berkeley

 

Probabilistic tensors and opportunistic Boolean matrix multiplication

Petteri Kaski
Aalto University

 

Discrete Models with Total Positivity

Dane Wilburne
York University