Applied Topology Seminar
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Upcoming Seminar talks
All talks are at 11am Eastern Time (UTC-5 or UTC-4, depending on daylight savings), unless denoted otherwise. You may also add our associated google calendar.
Wed, Dec 4, Monique Teillaud, Triangulations, CGAL, and hyperbolic surfaces
Wed, Dec 11, Paweł Dłotko
Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 6pm JST, Yasuaki Hiraoka
Wed, Jan 22, 2025, Giovanni Petri
Wed, Jan 29, 2025, Théo Lacombe, Diffeomorphic interpolation for efficient persistence-based topological optimization
Wed, Feb 5, 2025, Carlo Collari
Wed, Feb 12, 2025, Nkechi Nnadi
Wed, Feb 19, 2025, 5pm Eastern, Vanessa Robins
Wed, Feb 26, 2025, AA"Tea"RN Tea Time
Wed, Mar 5, 2025, Stefan Huber
Wed, Mar 12, 2025, Vadim Lebovici
Wed, Mar 19, 2025, Shiying Li
Wed, Mar 26, 2025, time TBD, Yuka Kotorii
Wed, Apr 9, 2025, Nina Otter
Wed, Apr 16, 2025, time TBD, Paul Samuel Ignacio
Wed, Apr 23, 2025, Sara Scaramuccia
Wed, Apr 30, 2025, Andrea Guidolin
Wed, May 7, 2025, Ulderico Fugacci
Past Seminar talks
Fall 2024
Wed, Sep 4, Michael Postol, Steenrod Squares and Data Science: Is There a Connection?
Wed, Sep 11, Matt Piekenbrock, Spectral relaxations of the Persistent Rank Invariant
Wed, Sep 18, Sara Veneziale, Machine learning detects terminal singularities
Wed, Oct 2, Alexander McCleary, Persistent Homology for Infinite Complexes
Wed, Oct 9, Radmila Sazdanovic, The shape of relations: knots and other stories
Wed, Oct 16, David Loiseaux, Multiparameter Persistence for Machine Learning
Wed, Oct 23, AA"Tea"RN Tea Time
Wed, Oct 30, Elena Wang, Measuring Graph Distance using the Labeled Merge Tree Interleaving Distance
Wed, Nov 6, Nikola Milićević, Homotopy and singular homology groups of finite digraphs
Wed, Nov 13, Caroline Moosmüller, Trajectory inference in Wasserstein space
Wed Nov 20, Corentin Lunel, Hopf Arborescent Links, Minor Theory, and Decidability of the Genus Defect
Summer 2024
Wed June 5, Yariana Diaz, Completely-decomposable subcategories of quiver representations
Wed June 19, Qingsong Wang, Measure Theoretic Reeb Graphs
Wed June 26, Fabian Roll, Bridging Persistent Homology and Discrete Morse Theory with Applications to Shape Reconstruction
Wed July 3, AA"Tea"RN Tea Time
Wed, July 10, Killian Meehan, Topological Node2vec: improving graph embeddings with persistent homology
Wed, July 17, Rayna Andreeva, Metric space magnitude and generalization in neural networks
Wed July 24, Nataša Jonoska, Topological Problems Associated with DNA Nanostructures
Wed, July 31, Vidit Nanda, Harder-Narasimhan Filtrations of Persistence Modules
Wed, Aug 7, Yusuke Imoto, Single-cell trajectory analysis with V-Mapper
Wed, Aug 14, Tamal Dey, Computing Generalized Ranks of Persistence Modules via Unfolding to Zigzag Modules
Wed, Aug 28, Audun Myers, Understanding Temporal (Hyper)graph Dynamics with Zigzag Persistence
Spring 2024
Wed Jan 10, AA"Tea"RN Tea Time
Wed Jan 17, Wenwen Li, 2-Parameter Persistent Homology of the Second Configuration Spaces of Star Graphs
Wed Jan 24, Davide Gurnari, Harmonic Persistent Homology for disentangling multiway interaction in data
Wed Jan 31, Robin Belton, Time Series and Biological Network Analysis via Directed Graphs
Wed Feb 7, Andreas Ott, Characterizing convergent evolution with persistent homology
Wed Feb 14, Claudia Landi, Barcodes for the topological analysis of gradient-like vector fields
Mon Feb 19, Michael Robinson, The snake lemma and indecomposable chain maps
Wed Feb 28, AA"Tea"RN Tea Time
Wed Mar 6, Yossi Bokor Bleile, Microstructure analysing using geometry and topology
Wed Mar 13, Bernadette Stolz, Applications of topology to data from oncology
Wed Mar 20, Elizabeth Munch, Bounding the Interleaving Distance for Mapper Graphs with a Loss Function
Wed Mar 27, Giuliamaria Menara, Eulerian magnitude homology: subgraph structure and random graphs
Wed Apr 3, Tatum Rask, Poincaré Duality for Generalized Persistence Diagrams of (co)Filtrations
Wed Apr 10, Asuka Takatsu, On geometric properties of sliced/disintegrated optimal transport metrics
Wed Apr 17, Juan Pablo Vigneaux, A combinatorial approach to categorical Möbius inversion and magnitude
Wed Apr 24, Amber Wu, Topological Data Analysis in an Economic Context: Property Tax Maps
Wed May 1, Kelly Maggs, Cohomology classes in the RNA transcriptome
Wed May 8, Sarah McGuire, Classification of Euler Characteristic Transforms using convolutional neural networks
Wed May 15, Björn Sandstede, Pattern statistics and model comparison via topological data analysis
Wed May 22, Živa Urbančič, On clustering scRNA-seq data
Fall 2023
Wed Sep 6, Keunsu Kim, Exact multi-parameter persistent homology of time-series data
Wed Sep 13, Chao Chen, Topological Uncertainty and Topological Representations for Biomedical Image Analysis
Wed Sep 20, Patrick Schnider, Topological Methods in Discrete Geometry
Wed Sep 27, AA"Tea"RN Tea Time
Wed Oct 4, Shreya Arya, A sheaf-theoretic construction of Shape Space
Wed Oct 18, Maddie Weinstein, Metric Algebraic Geometry
Wed Oct 25, Simon Willerton, Instantaneous dimension of metric spaces via spread and magnitude
Wed Nov 15, Takaaki Aoki, Potential landscape of human flow in cities
Wed Nov 29, Inés García-Redondo, Computable Stability for Persistence Rank Function Machine Learning
Wed Dec 6, Tomoki Uda, Stability of Reeb ordering method in the framework of pospaces
Wed Dec 13, Niklas Hellmer, Topology-Driven Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Arbitrary Dimensions
Summer 2023
Wed June 7, Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik, Stabilizing decomposition of multiparameter modules
Wed June 21, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed June 28, Anna Song, Generalized Morse Theory of Distance Functions to Surfaces for Persistent Homology
Wed July 5, Ana Lucía García Pulido, Bi-Lipschitz embeddings of the space of persistence barcodes
Wed July 19, Georg Essl, Topology in Digital Sound Synthesis
Wed July 26, Anna Schenfisch, Ordering Classes of Descriptor Types by their Ability to Faithfully Represent Shapes
Wed Aug 2, Vijay Natarajan, Scalable Computation of the Extremum Graph
Wed Aug 9, Carina Curto, Using topology to study the geometry of neural correlations
Wed Aug 16, Ondřej Draganov, TDA for Chromatic Point Clouds
Wed Aug 23, Sushovan Majhi, Demystifying Latschev's Theorem for Manifold Reconstruction
Spring 2023
Wed Jan 11, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed Jan 18, Dmitriy Morozov, Topological Optimization with Big Steps
Wed Jan 25, Matthew Kahle, Configuration spaces of hard squares
Wed Feb 1, Claudia Landi interviewed by Barbara Giunti
Web Feb 8, Luis Scoccola, Recent Advances in the Theory and Implementation of Multi-Parameter Persistence
Web Feb 15, Nadav Dym, Efficient Invariant Embeddings for Universal Equivariant Learning
Wed Feb 22, Sarah Tymochko, Applications of Topological Time Series Analysis to Hurricanes and Dynamical Systems
Wed Mar 1, Myfanwy Evans, Enumerating triply-periodic tangles
Wed Mar 8, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed Mar 15, Dejan Govc, Fundamental groups of small simplicial complexes
Wed Mar 29, Antonio Rieser, Algebraic Topology for Graphs and Mesoscopic Spaces
Wed Apr 19, Lorin Crawford, Probabilistic Generative Frameworks for Sampling 3D Complex Shapes and Images
Wed Apr 26, Guowei Wei, Persistent Topological Laplacians
Wed May 3, Rhoslyn Coles, Geometric optimisation of 3–balls centred on curves
Wed May 10, Matteo Pegoraro, Data Analysis with Merge Trees
Wed May 17, Michael Bronstein, Physics-inspired learning on graphs
Wed May 24, Julien Tierny, Principal Geodesic Analysis of Merge Trees (and Persistence Diagrams)
Wed May 31, Paul Biran, Triangulated Persistence Categories and their K-Theory
Fall 2022
Wed Sep 7, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed Sep 14, Frédéric Chazal interviewed by Steve Oudot
Wed Sep 21, Yohai Reani, Persistent Cycle Registration and Topological Bootstrap
Wed Sep 28, Gregory Henselman-Petrusek, Saecular persistence
Wed Oct 12, Hitesh Gakhar, Stability of Eilenberg-MacLane coordinates
Wed Oct 19, Miguel O'Malley, Alpha Magnitude
Wed Oct 26, Konstantin Mischaikow interviewed by Tomas Gedeon
Wed Nov 2, Heather Harrington, Shape of data in biology: Extending the PH pipeline
Wed Nov 9, Tananun Songdechakraiwut, Fast Topological Clustering with Wasserstein Distance
Wed Nov 16, Ana Romero, Effective computation of spectral systems and their relation with multi-parameter persistence
Wed Nov 30, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed Dec 7, Yusu Wang interviewed by Tamal Dey
Wed Dec 14, Anne Marie Svane, Analyzing point processes using topological data analysis
Summer 2022
Wed June 1, Samantha Moore, The Generalized Persistence Diagram Encodes the Bigraded Betti Numbers
Wed June 15, Jose Perea, Vector bundles for data alignment and dimensionality reduction
Wed June 29, Yuichi Ike, RipsNet: fast and robust estimation of persistent homology for point clouds
Wed July 6, Tamal Dey, New Results in Computing Zigzag and Multiparameter Persistence
Wed July 13, Renata Turkeš, On the effectiveness of persistent homology
Wed July 20, Ximena Fernández, Morse theory for group presentations and the persistent fundamental group
Wed July 27, Sarah Percival, Computation of Reeb Graphs in a Semi-Algebraic Setting
Wed Aug 10, Siddharth Pritam, Swap, Shift and Trim to Edge Collapse a Flag Filtration
Wed Aug 17, Hubert Wagner, Topological data analysis in non-Euclidean spaces
Wed Aug 24, Sandra Di Rocco, Algebraic Geometry of Data
Wed Aug 31, James Stasheff, Homotopy coherence - theme and variations
Spring 2022
Wed Jan 19, Yuliy Baryshnikov, Linear Obstacles in Linear Systems and Ways to Avoid Them
Wed Jan 26, Sohail Iqbal, Classification of COVID-19 via Homology of CT-scans
Wed Feb 2, Julien Tierny, Wasserstein Distances, Geodesics and Barycenters of Merge Trees
Wed Feb 9, Shmuel Weinberger interviewed by Katharine Turner
Wed Feb 16, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed Feb 23, Michael Lesnick, Stability of 2-Parameter Persistent Homology
Wed Mar 2, Dhananjay Bhaskar, Data-Driven Modeling & TDA of Self-Organized Multicellular Architectures
Wed Mar 23, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed Mar 30, Ippei Obayashi, Stable volumes for persistent homology
Wed Apr 13, Chad Giusti, An approach to assigning semantics to persistent homology classes
Wed Apr 27, Adélie Garin, From Trees to Barcodes and Back Again: Combinatorial and Geometric Perspectives
Wed May 4, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed May 18, Justin Curry, Exemplars of Sheaf Theory in TDA
Wed May 25, Yu-Min Chung, A multi-parameter persistence framework for mathematical morphology
Fall 2021
Wed Sep 1, Petar Pavešić, Category weight estimates of minimal triangulations
Wed Sep 8, Steve Oudot, Signed barcodes for multi-parameter persistence via rank decompositions
Wed Sep 15, Martina Scolamiero, Extracting persistence features with hierarchical stabilisation
Wed Sep 22, Teresa Heiss, Geometry and Topology of Periodic Point Sets, for example Crystals
Wed Sep 29, Lisbeth Fajstrup interviewed by Martin Raussen
Wed Oct 13, Moo K Chung, Topological Learning and Its Application to Multimodal Brain Network Integration
Wed Oct 20, Robert Adler interviewed by Omer Bobrowski
Wed Oct 27, Yuzhou Chen, Topological Relational Learning on Graphs
Wed Nov 3, Jasna Urbančič, Optimizing Embedding using Persistence
Wed Nov 10, Gunnar Carlsson, Topological Deep Learning
Wed Nov 17, Bastian Rieck, Topological Graph Neural Networks
Wed Dec 1, Vasileios Maroulas, Statistics, Topology, and Data Analysis
Wed Dec 8, Michael Kerber, Multi-Parameter Persistent Homology is Practical
Wed Dec 15, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Summer 2021
Wed June 2, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed June 16, Yang-Hui He, Universes as Bigdata: from Geometry, to Physics, to Machine-Learning
Wed June 23, Kelin Xia, Topological data analysis (TDA) based machine learning models for drug design
Wed June 30, Daniela Egas Santander, Nerve theorems for fixed points of neural networks
Wed July 7, Mustafa Hajij, Cell Complex Neural Networks
Wed July 14, Mikhail Katz, Collapsing surfaces
Wed July 21, Mason Porter, Topological Data Analysis of Spatial Complex Systems
Wed Aug 4, Francesco Vaccarino, Parallel decomposition of persistence modules through interval bases
Wed Aug 11, Kathryn Hess interviewed by Peter Bubenik
Wed Aug 18, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed Aug 25, Elchanan Solomon, Dimensionality Reduction via Distributed Persistence: DIPOLE
Spring 2021
Wed Jan 20, Noah Giansiracusa, Looking for geometry in the Supreme Court
Wed Jan 27, Konstantin Michaikow, Nonlinear Dynamics in an Age of Heuristic Science
Wed Feb 3, Gunnar Carlsson interviewed by Vin de Silva
Wed Feb 10, Anthea Monod, Tropical geometry of phylogenetic tree spaces
Wed Feb 17, Neža Mramor, An application of discrete Morse theory to robot motion planning
Wed Mar 3, AA"Tea"RN tea time and introduction to the Tutorial-a-thon
Wed Mar 10, Tutorial-a-thon
Wed Mar 17, Tutorial-a-thon
Wed Mar 24, Tutorial-a-thon
Wed Mar 31, Marinka Zitnik, Graph representation learning and its applications to biomedicine
Wed Apr 7, Marzieh Eidi, How optimal transport can help us to determine curvature of complex networks?
Tues Apr 13, Menachem Lazar, High-dimensional data, level-set geometry, and Voronoi analysis of spatial point sets
Wed Apr 21, Massimo Ferri interviewed by Claudia Landi
Wed Apr 28, Yulia Gel, Topological Clustering of Multilayer Networks
Wed May 5, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed May 12, Paul Bendich, Data Complexes, Obstructions, Persistent Data Merging
Wed May 19, Beatriz Pascual Escudero, Using Algebraic Geometry to detect robustness in Reaction Networks
Fall 2020
Wed Sep 2, Hal Schenck, Algebraic tools for multiparameter persistent homology
Wed Sep 9, Davorin Lešnik, Sampling smooth manifolds using ellipsoids
Wed Sep 16, Bala Krishnamoorthy, Steinhaus filtration and stable paths in the Mapper
Wed Sep 23, Hannah Alpert, Combinatorial models of disk configuration spaces
Wed Sep 30, Herbert Edelsbrunner interviewed by Dmitriy Morozov
Wed Oct 7, Cüneyt Akçora, Topological data analysis on networks – Applications and scalability issues
Wed Oct 14, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed Oct 21, Martin Lo, The topology of the 3 body problem
Wed Oct 28, Peter Bubenik, Homological algebra for persistence modules
Wed Nov 18, Vanessa Robins interviewed by Elizabeth Bradley
Wed Dec 2, AA"Tea"RN tea time
Wed Dec 9, Raphaël Tinarrage, Persistent Stiefel-Whitney classes
Summer 2020 and older
Summer 2020
You may also be interested in a subset of the contributed and accepted ATMCS 2020 talks which were hosted online.
Wed June 3, Amzi Jeffs, Convex sunflower theorems and neural codes
Wed June 10, Primoz Skraba, Algebraically manipulating persistence modules (and a Minkowski-type bound)
Wed June 17, Debabrota Basu, Epsilon-net induced lazy witness complex for efficient topological data analysis
Wed June 24, Robyn Brooks and Celia Hacker, Morse-based fibering of the rank invariant
Wed July 1, Andrew Thomas, Functional limit theorems for Euler characteristic processes
Wed July 8, Johnathan Bush, Borsuk-Ulam theorems for maps into higher-dimensional codomains
Wed July 15, Austin Lawson, Persistence curves: A canonical framework for summarizing persistence diagrams
Wed July 22, Cheng Xin, Generalized persistence algorithm for decomposing multi-parameter persistence modules
Wed July 29, Mateusz Juda, Unsupervised features learning for sampled vector fields
Wed Aug 5, Álvaro Torras Casas, The persistence Mayer Vietoris spectral sequence
Wed Aug 26, Jānis Lazovskis, Moduli spaces of Morse functions for persistence
Spring 2020
Wed Jan 29, Elizabeth Munch, Featurization of persistence diagrams using template functions for machine learning tasks
Wed Feb 12, Shmuel Weinberger, Geometry and topology of decision
Wed Feb 26, Christopher Tralie, TDALabs: (Some of) TDA's greatest hits in interactive python
Wed March 11, Erika Roldan Roa, Evolution of the homology and related geometric properties of the Eden growth model
Wed April 8, Oliver Vipond, Local equivalence of metrics for multiparameter persistence modules
Wed April 15, Gugan Thoppe, The bulk and the extremes of online minimal spanning acycles
Wed April 22, Hengrui Luo, Lower dimensional topological information: Theory and applications
Wed April 29, Wojciech Chachólski, TDA invariants and model categories
Wed May 6, Barbara Giunti, Invariants for tame parametrised chain complexes
Wed May 13, Tao Hou, Computing minimal persistent cycles: Polynomial and hard cases
Wed May 20, Bei Wang, TopoAct: Visually exploring the shape of activations in deep learning
Wed May 27, Lewis Mead, From large to infinite random simplicial complexes
Fall 2019
Wed Sep 4, Sayan Mukherjee, A fiber bundle theory for shapes
Wed Sep 25, Žiga Virk, Geometric interpretation of persistence
Wed Oct 9, Kathryn Hess, How to grow synthetic digital neurons
Wed Oct 23, Clément Maria, Parameterized complexity of quantum invariants of knots
Wed Nov 13, Eli Grigsby, On the topological expressiveness of neural networks
Wed Nov 20, Rachel Neville, Topological techniques for characterizing ion bombardment systems
Wed Dec 11, Omer Bobrowski, Homological percolation: The formation of giant cycles
Spring 2019
Tues Jan 22, Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, Multiple hypothesis testing with persistent homology
Tues Feb 5, Erin Chambers, Computing optimal homotopies
Tues, February 19, Mathieu Carrière, On the metric distortion of embedding persistence diagrams into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
Tues, March 5, Sarit Agami, Modeling and replicating persistence diagrams
Tues March 19, Ulrich Bauer, Persistence diagrams as diagrams
Tues March 26, Christian Lehn, Limit theorems in topological data analysis
Tues Apr 9, Vladimir Itskov, Directed complexes, sequence dimension and inverting a neural network
Tues Apr 23, Nina Otter, The magnitude of a metric space
Tues May 7, Jon Pakianathan, On a canonical construction of tessellated surfaces from finite groups
Fall 2018
Tues August 28, Bernd Sturmfels, Learning algebraic varieties from samples
Tues September 18, Erica Flapan, Topological and geometric symmetries of molecular structures
Tues October 16, Elchanan Solomon, An intrinsic persistent homology transform
Tues October 30, Jeffrey Giansiracusa, Multiparameter persistence vs parametrized persistence
Tues November 13, Jacek Brodzki, Persistence in action: quantifying lung structure in COPD and solubility of chemical compounds
Tues December 4, Ezra Miller, Real multiparameter persistent homology
Mon December 10, Heather Harrington, Multi-parameter persistent homology and applications
Spring 2018
Tues January 30, David Meyer, Some algebraic stability theorems for generalized persistence modules
Thurs February 8, Michael Farber, Motion planning in aspherical spaces, Wright College Topological Robotics Symposium
Thurs February 8, Yuli Rudyak, Maps of Degree 1 and Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category, Wright College Topological Robotics Symposium
Wed February 28, Primoz Skraba, An approximate nerve theorem
Tues March 13, Rachel Levanger, A comparison framework for interleaved persistence modules
Tues April 3, Benjamin Schweinhart, Persistent homology and the upper box dimension
Wed April 25, Yusu Wang, Graph reconstruction via discrete Morse theory
Wed May 9, Vitaliy Kurlin, Skeletonization algorithms with theoretical guarantees for unorganized point clouds
Fall 2017
Wed September 20, Lori Ziegelmeier, Persistence images: A stable vector representation of persistent homology
Wed October 11, Henry Adams, Metric reconstruction via optimal transport
Tues October 24, Pawel Dlotko, Practical problems, theory and computations: A few simple stories on topology in action
Wed November 1, Chad Topaz, Topological data analysis of collective motion
Tue November 28, Vanessa Robins, Persistence diagrams of bead packings
Tue December 19, Raúl Rabadán, Exploring biological dynamical processes using topological data analysis applied to single cell expression data
Spring 2017
Tue January 31, Amit Patel, Generalized Persistence Diagrams
Tue February 7, Michael Catanzaro, Stochastic Dynamics on CW Complexes
Tue February 28, Greg Malen, k-Collapsibility of Random Clique Complexes
Wed April 5, Magnus Botnan, Multidimensional Persistence
Wed April 12, Greg Henselman, Matroids & Canonical Forms: Theory and Applications
Tues April 25, José Samper, Higher Chordality
Fall 2016
Tue September 6, Gunnar Carlsson, Local to global principles in persistent homology
Wed September 21, Bruno Benedetti, Optimal discrete Morse vectors are not unique
Wed October 5, Sara Kalisnik, Tropical Coordinates on the Space of Persistence Barcodes
Tue October 18, Washington Mio, Stable Homology of Metric-Measure Spaces
Tue November 1, Florian Frick, Topology and combinatorics of fair division
Wed December 14, Anthea Monod, Topological Summaries of Tumor Images Improve Prediction of Disease Free Survival in Glioblastoma Multiforme
Spring 2016
Tue January 12, Omer Bobrowski, Maximally persistent cycles in random geometric complexes
Tue January 26, Matthew Kahle, Topology of configuration spaces of hard spheres
Tue February 2, Sanjeevi Krishnan, Homological Programming
Tue February 9, Harish Chintakunta, Topological Data Analysis and Signal Processing
Wed February 24, Kathryn Hess, Topological analysis of digital reconstructions of neural microcircuits
Tue March 15, Benjamin Schweinhart, Statistical Topology of Random Cell Complexes, and Applications
Tue April 12, Chad Giusti, Topology and neural computation
Wed April 20, Bala Krishnamoorthy, Linear Programming in Geometric Measure Theory
Fall 2015
Tue October 6, Michael Lesnick, Algebraic Stability of Zigzag Persistence Modules
Tue October 20, Matthew Wright, Visualizing 2-Dimensional Persistent Homology
Tue October 27, Justin Curry, Stratified covering maps and interleavings
Tue November 10, Hammurabi Mendes, Byzantine Computability and Combinatorial Topology
Tue December 2, Facundo Memoli, Hierarchical Clustering on Asymmetric Networks
Spring 2015
Tue January 13, Larry Wasserman, Robust Topological Inference
Wed January 21, Tamal Dey, Multiscale Mapper: A Framework for Topological Summarization
Tue February 10, Javier Arsuaga, Applications of computational topology to the analysis of breast cancer copy number data
Web February 25, Elizabeth Munch, The interleaving distance for Reeb graphs
Tue March 3, Henry Adams, The Vietoris-Rips complex of the circle
Tue March 17, Bei Wang, Geometric Inference on Kernel Density Estimates
Tue March 24, Don Sheehy, Sensors, Sampling, and Scale Selection: A Homological Approach
Wed April 1, Michael Robinson, Sheaf-based modeling of wireless communications
Tue April 7, Vidit Nanda, Morse theory for Local Coefficients
Wed April 15, Katharine Turner, PCA of persistent homology rank functions with case studies in point processes, colloids and sphere packings
Wed April 22, Jose Perea, Projective coordinates for the analysis of data
Wed April 29, Anthony Bak, Spaces of Shapes: Persistent Homology for Drug Discovery
Fall 2014
Tue September 23, Robert Ghrist, Poincare Duality in Network Flow Optimization
Wed October 1, Shmuel Weinberger, On Topological Inference
Tue October 7, John Harer, Topological Data Analysis and Machine Learning
Wed October 15, Gunnar Carlsson, On the algebraic geometry of spaces of persistence modules
Tue October 21, Sayan Mukherjee, Stochastic topology and statistical inference
Tue October 28, Peter Bubenik, Statistical topological data analysis
Wed November 5, Konstantin Mischaikow, Nonlinear Dynamics, High Dimensional Data, and Persistent Homology
Wed November 19, Vin de Silva, Functors and cosheaves for topological persistence
Wed December 10, Yusu Wang, Comparing Graphs via Persistence Distortion
Some of the slides from 2014-2016 are also available here.