Workshop on Computational Topology

November 7 - 11, 2011, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute

Description

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Schedule

Monday, November 7th, 2011
09:30 to 10:30	Higher-dimensional Expanders Matthew Kahle, Institute for Advanced Study Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:25	Distance Functions, Critical Points, and Topology for some Random Complexes Omer Bobrowski, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Location:
11:30 to 11:55	No Title Specified Location:
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:30	A Parametrized Version of Gromov's Waist of the Sphere Theorem Benjamin Matschke, Free University of Berlin Location:
14:30 to 15:00	Optimal Topological Simplification of Functions on Surfaces Ulrich Bauer, TUM Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
09:30 to 10:30	Fourier transform and Homology Roy Meshulam, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:25	Probability Measures on the Space of Persistence Diagrams Yuriy Mileyko, Duke University Location:
11:30 to 11:55	Stratification Learning through Local Homology Transfer Bei Wang, University of Utah Location:
12:00 to 12:30	Euler Integral Transforms and Applications Michael Robinson, University of Pennsylvania Location:
12:30 to 15:30	Lunch Break
15:30 to 15:55	Simplicial Models for Trace Spaces Martin Raussen, Aalborg University Location:
16:00 to 16:30	Efficient State Space Reduction Using Trace Spaces Samuel Mimram Location:
16:30 to 17:00	Computing Homology Cycles with Certified Geometry Tamal Dey, Purdue University Location:

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
09:30 to 10:30	Toward Understanding Complex Data: graph Laplacian on singular manifolds Wang Yusu, The Ohio State University Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:25	Computing Cohomology Ring Tomasz Kaczynski, University of Sherbrooke Location:
11:30 to 11:55	Applications of Computational (co)homology Pawel Dlotko, IMPAN Location:
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:30	Alexander Duality for Functions: the Persistent Behaviour of Land and Water and Shore Michael Kerber, IST Austria Location:
14:30 to 15:00	Algebraic Topological Tools for Combinatorial Image Analysis Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz, Universidad de Sevilla Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break

Thursday, November 10th, 2011
09:30 to 10:30	Theory and Algorithms for Constructing Discrete Morse Complexes from Grayscale Digital Images Vanessa Robins, Australian National University, Adrian Sheppard, Australia National University, Peter Wood, Australia National University Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:25	Optimization, Knots, and Differential Equations Anil Hirani, University of Illinois Location:
11:30 to 11:55	Well Groups for Mappings to Euclidean Spaces Amit Patel, Colorado State University Location:
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:30	Towards the Understanding of the Homological Persistence of Maps. Marian Mrozek, Jagiellonian University, Cracow Location:
14:30 to 15:10	Filtrations Induced by Continuous Functions Patrizio Frosini, University of Bologna, Barbara Di Fabio, University of Bologna Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 15:55	Comparison of Persistent Homologies for Vector Functions: from continuous to discrete Claudia Landi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Location:
16:00 to 16:30	Approximation Algorithm for the Multidimensional Matching Distance Patrizio Frosini, University of Bologna, Andrea Cerri, University of Bologna Location:

Friday, November 11th, 2011
09:30 to 10:00	Stable Multi-Scale Signatures for Shapes using Topological Persistence Steve Oudot, INRIA Location:
10:00 to 10:30	Persistence Based Signatures for Metric Spaces Fred Chazal, INRIA Location:
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:25	Witnessed k-Distance Dmitriy Morozov, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Location:
11:30 to 11:55	Efficient Data Structure for Representing and Simplifying Simplicial Complexes in High Dimensions Dominique Attali, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Andre Lieutier, David Salinas Location:
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:25	Vietoris-Rips Complexes also Provide Topologically Correct Reconstructions of Sampled Shapes Dominique Attali, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), David Salinas, Andre Lieutier Location:
14:30 to 14:55	Vector Diffusion Maps and the Connection Laplacian Amit Singer, Princeton University Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break

Organizing Committee

Herbert Edelsbrunner - IST Austria

Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov - University of Bremen

Robert Ghrist - University of Pennsylvania

Scheduled as part of

Thematic Program on Discrete Geometry and Applications

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