Applied Metric Geometry and Topology Seminar

Organization

Times: Thursday 4pm to 6pm

Location: MW 154.

Contact: Facundo Mémoli.

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

Participants

• Bowen Lai.
• Zane Smith.
• Ian Frankenburgh.
• Baocheng Wei.
• Samir Chowdhury.
• Woojin Kim.
• Sunhyuk Lim.

Schedule -- Summer 2015

• July 23rd. Baocheng: JavaPLex IV: witness streams. Woojin: Lower bounds for GW distance.
• July 16th. Baocheng: JavaPLex III: Vietoris-Rips streams. Woojin: Lower bounds for GW distance.
• July 9th. Baocheng: JavaPLex II: point clouds, explicit metric spaces. Woojin: Lower bounds for GW distance.
• July 2nd. Samir: Network motifs and distances between networks. Woojin: Gromov-Wasserstein distances 1. Zane: Introduction to Simplicial homology: Chain groups etc.
• June 25th. Baocheng: JavaPLex I: simplicial complexes. Woojin: Gromov-Hausdorff distance 3.
• June 18th. Baocheng: Introduction to Persistence. Woojin: Gromov-Hausdorff distance 2.
• June 11th. Woojin: Gromov-Hausdorff distance 1. Zane: Gromov-Hausdorff distance between spheres.
• June 4th. Woojin: Wasserstein distances 2. Sunhyuk: Distance between Markov chains.
• May 28th. Woojin: Blaschke's theorem. Wasserstein distance. Facundo: Approximation of spectral quantities.
• May 21st. Woojin: Hausdorff distance II.
• May 14th. Woojin: Hausdorff distance I. Zane: Wave and Heat kernel signatures.
• May 7th. Sunhyuk: Heat kernels, and spectral metrics.