Talks will be held in Bilger Hall 150. Registrations, breaks, and the poster session will take place in the courtyard of Bilger Hall.
Monday, May 16th - Morning
8:30 -- 9:20 am: Registration
9:20 -- 9:30 am: Welcome (Alison Sherwood, Associate Dean, College of Natural Sciences, UH Mānoa)
9:30 -- 10:30 am: Jesus De Loera: On the (Discrete) Geometric Principles of Machine Learning and Statistical Inference [abstract]
10:30 -- 11:00 am: Edgar Jaramillo Rodriguez: A Model for Birdwatching and other Chronological Sampling Activities [abstract]
11:00 -- 11:30 am: John Rhodes: Identifiability of parameters of a multi-type diversification model [abstract]
11:30 -- 1:30 pm: Lunch
Monday, May 16th - Afternoon
1:30 -- 2:00 pm: Eliza O'Reilly: Spectrahedral Regression [abstract]
2:00 -- 2:30 pm: Irem Portakal: Geometry of dependency equilibria [abstract]
2:30 - 4:00 pm: Poster session [view all poster abstracts]
4:00 -- 5:00 pm: Kei Kobayashi: Data analysis focusing on geodesic distance and curvature [abstract]
Tuesday, May 17th - Morning
8:30 -- 9:30 am: Kaie Kubjas: Algebraic degree of polynomial optimization [abstract]
9:30 -- 10:00 am: Nicolette Meshkat: Identifiability of structural equation models: the singular locus [abstract]
10:00 -- 10:30 am: Break
10:30 -- 11:00 am: Marina Garrote-López: Designing algebraic and semi-algebraic weights for quartet-based methods [abstract]
11:00 -- 11:30 am: Aida Maraj: Staged Tree Models with Toric Structure [abstract]
11:30 -- 12:00: Johannes Müller: The Geometry of Sequential Decision Problems with State Uncertainty [abstract]
Tuesday, May 17th - Afternoon
Research time,
networking time,
hike & explore the island.
Wednesday, May 18th - Morning
9:00 -- 10:00 am: Carlos Amendola: Identifiability in continuous graphical Lyapunov models [abstract]
10:00 -- 10:30 am: Break
10:30 -- 11:00 am: Liam Solus: Combinatorics and Algebra in Hybrid Causal Discovery Algorithms [abstract]
11:00 - 11:30 am: Danai Deligeorgaki: Unconditional Equivalence for DAG models [abstract]
11:30 -- 12:00 pm: Roser Homs Pons: Third-Order Moment Varieties of Linear Non-Gaussian Graphical Models [abstract]
12:00 -- 2:00 pm: Lunch
Wednesday, May 17th - Afternoon
2:00 -- 3:00 pm: Elina Robeva: Log-concave graphical models [abstract]
3:00 - 3:30 pm: Break
3:30 -- 4:00 pm: Mitsunori Ogawa: Estimating parameter of discrete exponential families using Markov bases under the presence of nuisance parameters [abstract]
4:00 -- 4:30 pm: Cash Bortner: Identifiable Linear Compartmental Tree Models [abstract]
4:30 -- 5:30 pm: Ruriko Yoshida: Hit and Run Sampling from Tropically Convex Sets [abstract]
Thursday, May 19th - Morning
8:30 -- 9:30 am: Serkan Hosten: Logarithmic Voronoi Cells of Gaussian Models [abstract]
9:30 -- 10:00 am: Yulia Alexandr: Logarithmic Voronoi polytopes for discrete linear models [abstract]
10:00 -- 10:30 am: Break
10:30 -- 11:00 am: Daniel Irving Bernstein: Maximum likelihood thresholds via graph rigidity [abstract]
11:00 -- 11:30 am: Benjamin Hollering: Invariants for level-1 phylogenetic networks under the Cavendar-Farris-Neyman Model [abstract]
11:30 -- 12:00 pm: [cancelled] Jane Ivy Coons: Symmetrically Colored Gaussian Graphical Models with Toric Vanishing Ideals [abstract]
Thursday, May 19th - Afternoon
Research time,
networking time,
hike & explore the island.
Friday, May 20th - Morning
8:30 -- 9:30 am: Jose Rodriguez: Sparse polynomial system solving and the method of moments [abstract]
9:30 -- 10:00 am: Shuhei Mano: Algebraic algorithm for direct sampling from toric models [abstract]
10:00 -- 10:30 am: Break
10:30 -- 11:00 am: Samuel Martin: Dimensions of Level-1 Phylogenetic Networks [abstract]
11:00 - 11:30 am: Shelby Cox: Tree Topologies along the Tropical Line Segment [abstract]
11:30 -- 1:30 pm: Lunch
Friday, May 20th - Afternoon
1:30 -- 2:30 pm: Guido F. Montufar: Geometry of memoryless policy optimization in POMDPs [abstract]
2:30 -- 3:00 pm: Break
3:00 -- 3:30 pm: Benson Au: Spectral asymptotics for contracted tensor ensembles [abstract]
3:30 -- 4:00 pm : Harm Derksen: Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Matrix and Tensor Normal Models [abstract]
4:00 -- 5:00 pm: Seth Sullivant: Ideals of Gaussian graphical models [abstract]