Workshop: Topological Data Analysis - Theory and Applications

School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Western University

May 1-3, 2021

Supported by the Tutte Institute and Western University.

Organizer:

• Rick Jardine, Department of Mathematics, Western University
  

Speakers:

The following mathematical scientists have agreed to speak:

• Henry Adams (Colorado State)
• Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford/Ayasdi)
• Mark Daley (Western University)
• Maia Fraser (Univ of Ottawa)
• Robert Ghrist (Univ of Pennsylvania)
• John Healy (Tutte Institute)
• Michael Lesnick (SUNY/Albany)
• Facundo Mémoli (OSU)
• Amit Patel (Colorado State)
• Jose Perea (Michigan State)
• Emilie Purvine (Pacific Northwest National Lab)
• Luis Scoccola (Michigan State)

This will be a virtual meeting, and links for the lectures will be sent to participants on the workshop mailing list.

To be added to the workshop mailing list, please send email to jardine@uwo.ca.

Lecture Schedule

All displayed times are EDT (Eastern Daylight Time).

A file of abstracts can be found at this link.

Saturday, May 1:

• 11:00-12:00: Robert Ghrist, Laplacians and Network Sheaves
• 13:00-14:00: Henry Adams, Bridging applied and quantitative topology
• 14:30-15:30: Gunnar Carlsson, Topological Deep Learning
• 16:00-17:00: Amit Patel: Edit Distance and Persistence Diagrams Over Lattices

Sunday, May 2:

• 11:00-12:00: Jose Perea, Synchronization problems in applied topology
• 13:00-14:00: Maia Fraser, TDA within hierarchical learning
• 14:30-15:30: Facundo Mémoli, The Gromov-Hausdorff distance between spheres
• 16:00-17:00: John Healy, Practical Clustering and Topological Data Analysis

Monday, May 3:

• 11:00-12:00: Luis Scoccola, Approximate and discrete vector bundles
• 13:00-14:00: Mark Daley, TBA
• 14:30-15:30: Michael Lesnick, l_p-Metrics on Multiparameter Persistence Modules
• 16:00-17:00: Emilie Purvine, Homology of Graphs and Hypergraphs

For further information, please contact Rick Jardine: jardine@uwo.ca