Applied Algebraic Topology Reading Group

Organization

Times: Tuesdays 4pm to 6pm

Location: Dreese Labs 264.

Contact: Roy Joshua, Facundo Mémoli, and Crichton Ogle.

Description: A reading group for undergrads and graduate students about Applications of Algebraic Topology to Data Analysis.

Student Participants

• Nadia Avery.
• Bowen Lai.
• Zane Smith.
• Ian Frankenburgh.
• Baocheng Wei.
• Samir Chowdhury.
• Woojin Kim.
• Yimin Hu.
• Muzi Li.
• Lu yang Wang.
• Corey Staten.

Schedule -- Autum 2015

• September 8th. all: First meeting -- assingment of topics.
• September 15th. all: TGDA seminar talk by Sanjeevi Krishnan.
• September 22nd. Ian: Gentle Intro to Categories and Functors. Woojin: A primer on Persistent Homology.
• September 29th. Woojin: Continue with introduction to PH. Corey and Zane: The Gromov-Hausdorff distance, with some computational examples.
• October 6th. all: TGDA seminar talk by Dena Asta.
• October 13th. all: TGDA seminar talk by Joe Anderson.
• October 20th. Baocheng, Luyang, and Nadia: Mapper, Python Mapper software, and applications of Mapper..
• October 27th. Yimin: Vietoris-Rips Persistent Homology for finite metric spaces, and application to Shape Matching.
• November 3rd. Ian:: Clustering and Hierarchical clustering: axiomatics. Facundo: Some ideas abot stability of clustering.
• November 10th. all: TGDA seminar talk by Krystal Taylor.
• November 17th. all: TGDA seminar talk by José Perea.
• November 24th. Ian: continue with clustering. Woojin: GH distance and stability of persistence.
• December 1st. Yimin: Stability of VR PH.
• December 8th. ..:.