Topology and Data Reading Group

In this reading we will work through Gunnar Carlsson's recent article on Topology and Data.

Other references include Edelsbrunner's publications - note the survey paper at the top, Ghrist's paper on sensor network applications, 1st paper and 2nd paper by Smale, Weinberger and Niyogi on clustering and unsupervised learning applications. An interesting paper on computing persistent homology.

Topology and Data Reading Group - Wednesday 1:30-2:30 - Room 4610 Engineering Hall
October 7 N.Boston Organizational meeting, section 1.
October 14 R.Nowak Carlsson's slides.
October 21 G.Craciun Sections 2.1,2.2 - introduction and building coverings and complexes.
October 28 G.Craciun Sections 2.1,2.2 - introduction and building coverings and complexes (continued).
November 4 J.Ellenberg Section 2.3 - persistent homology.
November 11 No meeting this week.
November 18 B.Sethares Section 2.4 - natural image statistics.
November 25 L.Maxim Rest of 2.4 and all 2.5 - electrode array data from primary visual cortex.
December 2 G.Mari-Beffa Sections 3.1,3.2 - visualization, a topological method.
December 9 3.3,3.4,3.5 - filters, scale space, examples.
December 16 Section 4.1 and some 4.2 - multidimensional persistence.
December 23 Rest of 4.2 and all 4.3 - quivers and zigzags, tree based persistence.
December 30 Section 5 - reasoning about clustering.