Interpolative decomposition and its applications

Series
School of Mathematics Colloquium
Time
Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Prof. Lexing Ying – Stanford University – https://web.stanford.edu/~lexing/
Organizer
Molei Tao
Interpolative decomposition is a simple and yet powerful tool for approximating low-rank matrices. After discussing the theory and algorithms, I will present a few new applications of interpolative decomposition in numerical partial differential equations, quantum chemistry, and machine learning.