Talks
Geometry of restricted Boltzmann machines, Special Session on Advances in Algebraic Statistics, AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, 3/27-28/2010.
Scalable implicit symmetric tensor approximation, Computational Methods for Tensors minisymposium, SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, 10/28/2009, Monterey Bay-Seaside, CA.
Geometry of restricted Boltzmann machines, AMS Fall Eastern Section Meeting, University Park, Pennsylvania, 10/25/2009.
Tools for higher-order portfolio optimization, Practitioner's Financial Mathematics Seminar, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 10/9/2009.
Holographic algorithms without matchgates, Combinatorics seminar, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 10/9/2009.
Algebraic models for multilinear dependence, IMS NRC, Johns Hopkins University 7/31/09.
Distributions representable by restricted Boltzmann machines (poster), ICML 2009 Workshop on Learning Feature Hierarchies, Montreal, Canada, 6/18/09.
A visualization is a hypothesis, San Francisco Data Visualization Salon, 5/5/09.
Holographic algorithms without matchgates, Stanford CS Theory Lunch, 4/23/09.
Holographic algorithms without matchgates, U.C. Berkeley Discrete Math Seminar, 4/20/09.
Algebraic models for multilinear dependence, Sandia National Laboratory, 4/16/09.
Algebraic models for multilinear dependence, Penn State Department of Mathematics, 4/8/09.
Tools for higher-order portfolio optimization, MSCI Barra, 3/31/09.
Tools for higher-order portfolio optimization, Berkeley IEOR Seminar, 2/23/09.
Algebraic models for multilinear dependence, NSF Workshop: Future Directions in Tensor-Based Computation and Modeling, Arlington, VA 2/21/09.
Mapping the geometry of heart rate data, DARPA Topological Data Analysis meeting, Santa Barbara, CA 1/23/09.
Algebraic models for multilinear dependence , Duke Statistical Science Seminar, 1/19/09.
Algebraic models for multilinear dependence, U.C. Berkeley Special Algebraic Statistics Seminar, 1/13/09.
Algebraic models for multilinear dependence, at the Algebraic Statistical Models Workshop, SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1/15-1/17, 2009.
Tools for higher-order portfolio optimization, QWAFAFEW, San Francisco, 1/12/09. Slides.
Algebraic models for multilinear dependence, at the Algebraic methods in machine learning minisymposium, part of NIPS, Vancouver and Whistler, 12/11/08.
Tensor geometry and cumulants. Texas A&M Geometry Seminar, 11/14/08.
Mapping the geometry of heart rate data, DARPA FunBio meeting, San Francisco, 8/21/08.
Tensors and statistics, AIM Geometry and representation theory of tensors for computer science, statistics and other areas Palo Alto, 7/23/08.
A series of video lectures given at the MSRI graduate workshop on the geometry of tensors.
Practitioner's Financial Mathematics Seminar, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 4/11/08.
Conditional probability, bipartite graphs, and permutohedra, at the University of Minnesota Combinatorics Seminar, 4/11/08.
Relations among conditional probabilities at Geometric Aspects of Conditional Independence and Information, conference at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, 3/14/08.
Topological regularization of large graphical models, TMSCSCS Seminar, Stanford University 3/12/08
Relations among conditional probabilities, Computational Genomics and Algebraic Statistics Seminar, U.C. Berkeley, 11/13/07.
Relations among conditional probabilities, AMS Special Session on Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry, and Statistics at the Murfreesboro, Tennessee meeting, 11/03/07.
Schur modules in algebraic statistics, U.C. Berkeley Special Algebraic Statistics Seminar, 7/2/07.
How to Write Down Polynomials I and II (on using Schur-Weyl Duality to decompose ideals), Special Geometry Seminar at Texas A&M, 6/4/07 and 6/6/07.
Geometry of Rank Tests, poster at IMA session on Applications of Algebraic Geometry (Applications in Biology, Dynamics, and Statistics), 3/5/07.
The Toric Geometry of Conditional Probability, U. C. Berkeley Student Algebraic Statistics Seminar, 11/13/06.
Semigraphoids and the Permutohedron, MIT Combinatorics Seminar, 10/6/06
Geometry of Rank Tests, Texas A&M Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar, 9/29/06
Geometry of Rank Tests, Third European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models, Prague 9/14/06
Rank Tests for Microarray Data, Duke Systems Biology Seminar, 8/31/06
Geometry of Rank Tests, MSRI Summer Graduate Workshop on Mathematical aspects of computational biology, 6/27/06