Programme - Algebraic Statistics 2015, June 8-11, University of Genoa

Monday (June 8)

Morning (8:30-12:15)
8:30-9:00     Registration
9:00-10:30 --- 10:45-12:15  [Tutorial] Luis García-Puente (Sam Houston State University),
                     R package for algebraic statistics  (slides - R script)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break

Afternoon (13:50-17:00)
13:50-14:00 Welcome by the head of the department
14:00-15:00 Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley)
                    Exponential varieties (slides)
 15:00-15:25 Lorenzo Robbiano (Genova)
                    From factorial designs to Hilbert schemes (slides)
15:25-15:40 Poster, discussant: Bernd Sturmfels
15:40-16:10 Coffee break
16:10-16:35 Elina Robeva (University of California, Berkeley)
                    Decomposing tensors into frames (slides)
16:35-17:00 Colby Long (North Carolina State University), Seth Sullivant (North Carolina State University)
                    Tying up loose strands: defining equations of the strand symmetric model (slides)
Tuesday (June 9)

Morning (9:00-12:00)
 9:00-10:00   Thomas Kahle (OvGU Magdeburg)
                    Algebraic geometry of Poisson regression  (slides)
10:00-10:25 Jose Rodriguez (University of Notre Dame), Botong Wang (University of Notre Dame)
                    The maximum likelihood degree of rank 2 matrices via Euler characteristics  (slides)
10:25-10:40 Poster, discussant: Lorenzo Robbiano
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:35 Milan Studený (UTIA Prague), Tomáš Kroupa (University of Milan)
                    A linear-algebraic criterion for indecomposable generalized permutohedra (slides)
11:35-12:00 Marco Compagnoni (Politecnico di Milano), Roberto Notari (Politecnico di Milano), Andrea A. Ruggiu (Linköping University), Fabio Antonacci (Politecnico di Milano), Augusto Sarti (Politecnico di Milano)
                    The geometry of the statistical model for range–based localization (slides)

Afternoon (14:00-17:00)
 14:00-15:00 Sonja Petrović (IIT Chicago)
                    What are shell structures of random networks telling us? (slides)
15:00-15:25 Alexander Engström (Aalto University), Patrik Norén (North Carolina State University)
                    Algebraic graph limits (slides)
15:25-15:40 Poster, discussant: Giovanni Pistone
15:40-16:10 Coffee break
16:10-16:35 Elizabeth Gross (San José State University), Kaie Kubjas (Aalto University)
                    Hypergraph decompositions and toric ideals (slides)
16:35-17:00 Rob H. Eggermont (TU Eindhoven), Emil Horobeţ (TU Eindhoven), Kaie Kubjas (Aalto University)
                    Matrices of nonnegative rank at most three  (slides)
Wednesday (June 10)

Morning (9:00-12:00)
 9:00-10:00    Elvira Di Nardo (Basilicata)
                     Symbolic methods in statistics: elegance towards efficiency (slides)
10:00-10:25  Vašek Chvátal (Concordia University), František Matúš (UTIA Prague), Yori Zwols (Google London)
                     On patterns of conjunctive forks (slides)
10:25-10:40  Poster, discussant: Steffen Lauritzen
10:40-11:10  Coffee break
11:10-11:35  Johannes Rauh (York University),  Fatemeh Mohammadi (IST Austria)
                     Conditional independence ideals with hidden variables (slides)
11:35-12:00  Manuele Leonelli (University of Warwick), Jim Q. Smith (University of Warwick), Eva Riccomagno (Genova)
                     The algebra of integrated partial belief systems (slides)

Afternoon (14:00-16:35)
 14:00-15:00  Jim Q. Smith (University of Warwick)
                     The geometry of chain event graphs (slides)
15:00-15:15  Poster, discussant: Henry P. Wynn
15:15-15:45  Coffee break
15:45-16:10  Elizabeth Gross (San Jose State University), Seth Sullivant (North Carolina State University)
                     Maximum likelihood threshold of a graph (slides)
 16:10-16:35 Liam Solus (University of Kentucky), Caroline Uhler (IST Austria), Ruriko Yoshida (University of Kentucky)
                     The facets of the cut polytope and the extreme rays of cone of concentration matrices of series-parallel graphs (slides)
                
Thursday (June 11)

Morning (9:00-12:15)
 9:00-10:30 --- 10:45-12:15  [Tutorial] Piotr Zwiernik (Genoa)
                    Latent tree graphical models (slides)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break

Afternoon (13:45-17:00)
13:45-15:15 --- 15:30-17:00  [Tutorial] Giovanni Pistone (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Luigi Malagò (Shinshu University and INRIA TAO)
                    Information Geometry and Algebraic Statistics on a finite state space and on Gaussian models  (handout)
15:15-15:30 Coffee break