Algebraic Topology and Topological Data Analysis: A Conference in Honor of Gunnar Carlsson

Organizers

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The conference brings together researchers from both traditional aspects within Algebraic Topology (such as homotopy theory, knot theory, K-theory, etc.) with more recently developed techniques such as those from Topological Data Analysis and Applied Algebraic Topology (such as persistent homology, applied category theory, quantitative topology, dimension reduction, etc.). 

Having mentored and collaborated with many mathematicians and applied scientists, Gunnar Carlsson has been a central figure in the recent development of both currents.  This week-long conference will therefore explore a wide range of topics at the confluence between Algebraic Topology and Topology Data Analysis. As such it has a strong potential to seed new research directions which will not only widen the landscape of topological techniques in data analysis, but could also suggest new possible directions within algebraic topology. 

Schedule

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Monday, August 1, 2022

TimeActivityLocation
8:00 am - 8:50 amCoffee and RegistrationKeller 3-176
8:50 am - 9:00 pmWelcome and IntroductionKeller 3-180
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Topological explorations of neuron morphology

Kathryn Hess-Bellwald (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))

Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:30 amCoffee BreakKeller 3-176
10:30 am - 11:30 am

Braids and Hopf algebras

Craig Westerland (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Keller 3-180
11:30 am - 1:00 pmLunch 
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

Homology crowding in configuration spaces of disks

Hannah Alpert (Auburn University)

Keller 3-180
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Coarse coherence of metric spaces and groups

Boris Goldfarb (State University of New York - Albany)

Keller 3-180
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Limits of Dense Simplicial Complexes

Santiago Segarra (Rice University)

Keller 3-180
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Invertibility in Category Representations

Sanjeevi Krishnan (The Ohio State University)

Keller 3-180

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

TimeActivityLocation
8:30 am - 9:00 amCoffeeKeller 3-176
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Motivic Euler characteristics and the Motivic Segal-Becker theorem (Remotely)

Roy Joshua (The Ohio State University)

Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:15 amGroup Photo 
10:15 am - 10:30 amCoffee BreakKeller 3-176
10:30 am - 11:30 am

Effective constructions in algebraic topology and topological data analysis

Anibal Medina-Mardones (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)

Keller 3-180
11:30 am - 1:00 pmLunch 
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm

Tracking Topological Features Across Neural Stimulus Spaces

Chad Giusti (University of Delaware)

Keller 3-180
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm

Persistent cup-length

Ling Zhou (The Ohio State University)

Keller 3-180
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm

Witness complexes and Lagrangian duality

Erik Carlsson (University of California, Davis)

Keller 3-180
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm

Ramification in Higher Algebra

John Berman (University of Massachusetts)

Keller 3-180

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

TimeActivityLocation
8:30 am - 9:00 amCoffeeKeller 3-176
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Toward conjectures of Rognes and Church--Farb--Putman (Lecture Remotely)

Jenny Wilson (University of Michigan)

Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:30 amCoffee BreakKeller 3-176
10:30 am - 11:30 am

Path induction and the indiscernibility of identicals

Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University)

Keller 3-180
11:30 am - 1:00 pmLunch 
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

Decomposition of topological Azumaya algebras in the stable range

Niny Arcila-Maya (Duke University)

Keller 3-180
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Persistent homology and its fibre

Ulrike Tillmann (University of Oxford)

Keller 3-180

Thursday, August 4, 2022

TimeActivityLocation
8:30 am - 9:00 amCoffeeKeller 3-176
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Alpha Magnitude (Remotely)

Sara Kalisnik (ETH Zürich)

Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:30 amCoffee BreakKeller 3-176
10:30 am - 11:30 am

Vector bundles for data alignment and dimensionality reduction

Jose Perea (Northeastern University)

Keller 3-180
11:30 am - 1:00 pmLunch 
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

Equivariant K-Theory of G-Manifolds

Mona Merling (University of Pennsylvania)

Keller 3-180
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Equivariant methods in chromatic homotopy theory

XiaoLin (Danny) Shi (University of Chicago)

Keller 3-180
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Gromov-Hausdorff distances, Borsuk-Ulam theorems, and Vietoris-Rips Complexes

Henry Adams (Colorado State University)

Keller 3-180
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Gratitude

Vin de Silva (Pomona College)

 

 

Friday, August 5, 2022

TimeActivityLocation
8:30 am - 9:00 amCoffeeKeller 3-176
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Speculations

Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University)

Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:30 amCoffee BreakKeller 3-176
10:30 am - 11:30 am

Approximations to Classifying Spaces from Algebras

Ben Williams (University of British Columbia)

Keller 3-180

Participants

NameDepartmentAffiliation
Henry AdamsDepartment of MathematicsColorado State University
Hannah AlpertDepartment of Applied Mathematics and StatisticsAuburn University
Niny Arcila-Maya--Duke University
John BermanDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Massachusetts
Robyn BrooksDepartment of MathematicsBoston College
Johnathan BushDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Florida
Marco CamposDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Houston
Erik CarlssonDepartment of Computational and Applied MathematicsUniversity of California, Davis
Gunnar CarlssonDepartment of MathematicsStanford University
Christopher ChiaDepartment of Mathematical SciencesBinghamton University (SUNY)
Jacob ClevelandDepartment of MathematicsColorado State University
Mathieu De LangisDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Vin de SilvaDepartment of MathematicsPomona College
Alex ElchesenDepartment of MathematicsColorado State University
Russell FunkStrategic Management and EntrepreneurshipUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Thomas GebhartDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Chad GiustiDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Delaware
Boris GoldfarbDepartment of Mathematics and StatisticsState University of New York - Albany
Iryna HartsockDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Florida
Kathryn Hess-BellwaldDepartment of MathematicsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Anh HoangDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Roy JoshuaDepartment of MathematicsThe Ohio State University
Matthew KahleDepartment of MathematicsThe Ohio State University
Sara KalisnikDepartment of Computational and Applied MathematicsETH Zürich
Jennifer KlokeDataLinkedIn Corporation
Miroslav KramarDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Oklahoma
Sanjeevi KrishnanDepartment of MathematicsThe Ohio State University
Chung-Ping LaiDepartment of MathematicsOregon State University
Kang-Ju LeeDepartment of Mathematical SciencesSeoul National University
Guchuan LiDepartment of Mathematical SciencesUniversity of Michigan
Wenwen LiDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Oklahoma
Miguel LopezDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Anibal Medina-Mardones--Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Facundo MémoliDepartment of MathematicsThe Ohio State University
Mona Merling--University of Pennsylvania
Elias Nino-RuizDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversidad del Norte
Jose PereaDepartment of Mathematics and Computer ScienceNortheastern University
Emily RiehlDepartment of Mathematics & StatisticsJohns Hopkins University
Thomas RoddenberryDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringRice University
Jerome RoehmDepartment of Mathematical SciencesUniversity of Delaware
Benjamin RuppikInstitute for Informatics & Institute for MathematicsHeinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Eli SchlossbergDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Nikolas SchonsheckDepartment of Mathematical SciencesUniversity of Delaware
Santiago SegarraDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringRice University
XiaoLin (Danny) ShiDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Chicago
Alexander SmithChemical and Biological EngineeringUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison
Andrew ThomasCenter for Applied MathematicsCornell University
Ulrike TillmannMathematical InstituteUniversity of Oxford
Mikael Vejdemo-JohanssonDepartment of MathematicsCollege of Staten Island, CUNY
Elena WangDepartment of Computational Mathematics, Science, and EngineeringMichigan State University
Craig WesterlandSchool of MathematicsUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Kirsten WickelgrenDepartment of MathematicsDuke University
Ben WilliamsDepartment of Computational and Applied MathematicsUniversity of British Columbia
Jenny Wilson--University of Michigan
Iris YoonMathematical InstituteUniversity of Oxford
Ningchuan ZhangDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Ling ZhouDepartment of MathematicsThe Ohio State University
Shaopeng ZhuDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of Maryland
Lori ZiegelmeierDepartment of MathematicsMacalester College

 

The conference is supported by the National Science Foundation under DMS-2223905.

Start date
Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, 8 a.m.
End date
Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Location

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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