Program
| Monday  Salle des thèses  | 
Tuesday  Salle des thèses  | 
Wednesday  SG 2015  | 
Thursday  Salle des thèses  | 
Friday  SG 2015  | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 -- 10:00: welcome  | 
9:30 -- 10:00: coffee break  | 
9:30 -- 10:00: coffee break  | 
9:30 -- 10:00: coffee break  | 
9:30 -- 10:00: coffee break  | 
| 10:00 -- 10:45: Meena Mahajan (Min,+) formulas, Max, and Shortest Paths  | 
10:00 -- 11:00: Srikanth Srinivasan An Exponential Depth-Hierarchy Theorem for Constant-Depth Multilinear Circuits  | 
10:00 -- 11:00: Peter Bürgisser The null-cone problem in invariant theory (1)  | 
10:00 -- 11:00: Peter Bürgisser The null-cone problem in invariant theory (2)  | 
10:00 -- 11:00: Iddo Tzameret Emerging Connections between Algebraic and Proof Complexity  | 
| 10:45 -- 11:00: coffee break  | 
11:00 -- 11:15: coffee break  | 
11:00 -- 11:15: coffee break  | 
11:00 -- 11:15: coffee break  | 
11:00 -- 11:15: coffee break  | 
| 11:00 -- 12:15: Nitin Saxena Bootstrapping variables in algebraic circuits  | 
11:15 -- 12:00: Suryajith Chillara Small-depth Multilinear Formula Lower Bounds for Iterated Matrix Multiplication, with Applications  | 
11:15 -- 12:15: Yaroslav Shitov Tensor rank: Counterexamples and applications  | 
11:15 -- 12:15: Markus Bläser Generalized matrix completion problems and algebraic natural proofs  | 
11:15 -- 12:00: Miklos Santha On the PPA-completeness of the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz  | 
| 12:15 -- 13:45: lunch break  | 
12:00 - 14:00: lunch break  | 
12:15 -- 14:00: lunch break  | 
12:15 -- 14:00: lunch break  | 
12:00 -- 13:45: lunch break  | 
| 13:45 -- 14:45: Ben Lee Volk Unbalancing Sets and Lower Bounds for Multilinear Circuits  | 
14:00 -- 15:00: Dieter van Melkebeek Isomorphism Problems and Minimum Circuit Size  | 
14:00 -- 15:00: Pranjal Dutta Discovering the roots: Uniform closure results for algebraic classes under factoring  | 
14:00 -- 14:30: François Le Gall Improved Rectangular Matrix Multiplication using Powers of the Coppersmith-Winograd Tensor  | 
13:45 -- 14:35: Rohit Gurjar Number of near-shortest vectors in lattices and Isolation Lemma  | 
| 14:45 -- 15:15: Pierre Ohlmann Tight bounds using Hankel Matrix for Arithmetic Circuits with Unique Parse Trees  | 
15:00 -- 15:30: Anamay Tengse Hitting Sets for Circuits with Restricted Parse Trees  | 
15:00 -- 15:30: Arpita Korwar On the limitations of the Shpilka-Volkovich Generator  | 
14:30 -- 15:15: Prahladh Harsha On Multilinear Forms: Bias, Correlation, and Rank  | 
coffee break / end of WACT 2018 | 
| coffee break | coffee break | coffee break | coffee break | 15:00 - 15:30: (ANR CompA meeting)  | 
| 18:00: WACT apéritif (cocktail party) SG 1021  | 
15:45 -- 16:30: Prerona Chatterjee Constructing Faithful Maps over arbitrary fields  |