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DESCRIPTION: The method of moments is a statistical technique for density e
 stimation that solves a system of moment equations to estimate the paramete
 rs of an unknown distribution. A fundamental question critical to understan
 ding identifiability asks how many moment equations are needed to get finit
 ely many solutions and how many solutions there are.    Since the moments o
 f a mixture of Gaussians are polynomial expressions in the means\, variance
 s and mixture weights\, one can address this question from the perspective 
 of algebraic geometry. With the help of tools from polyhedral geometry\, we
  answer this fundamental question for several classes of Gaussian mixture m
 odels. Furthermore\, these results allow us to present an algorithm that pe
 rforms parameter recovery and density estimation\, applicable even in the h
 igh dimensional case.   Based on joint work with Julia Lindberg and Jose Ro
 driguez (University of Wisconsin-Madison). 
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SUMMARY:Carlos Amendola (Technische Universität München): Estimating Gaussi
 an mixtures using sparse polynomial moment systems
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