Meeting of the Philadelphia Area Topology (Contact/Hyperbolic) SeminarMeeting of the Philadelphia Area Topology (Contact/Hyperbolic) Seminarhttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/226892KINSC Hilles 108 2013-01-31T16:00:002013-01-31T19:00:00
January 31, 4:00PM
KINSC Hilles 108
KINSC H108
Description
The Philadelphia Area Topology (Contact / Hyperbolic) Seminar (PATCH)
Thursday, January 31
Haverford College, KINSC / Hilles H108
4:15p
John Harer (Duke University)
"Topology, Geometry and Statistics: Merging Methods for Data Analysis"
5:30p
Zoltan Szabo (Princeton University)
TBA
Abstract for John Harer's talk:
Dimension reduction and shape description for scientic datasets are difficult problems, ones that continue to grow in importance within the statistical, mathematical and computer science communities. Powerful new methods of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) have emerged in the last 10 years, and these have added signicantly to the data analysis toolbox.
In this talk we will give an overview of these methods and describe some early efforts to make them work together with statistical approaches. In particular we will discuss how one can use topological priors in data analysis and how TDA applies to the study of shape in point clouds, dimension reduction, time varying data and finding quasi-periodic patterns in signals.
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PATCH is sponsored by Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Penn, and Temple with financial support from the NSF
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