Applied Topology

From Iris Yoon:

Wesleyan University is hiring a visitor. The teaching load is 2-1, and it’s a “1 + 1” position, meaning that the initial contract is 1 year but may be renewed for another year if performance is satisfactory. The deadline is April 10.  

https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/28241

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Florida is looking to fill one Visiting Assistant Professor position, beginning August 16, 2026. Please apply by March 22, 2026.

https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/28154

As I arrive in Washington DC for the Joint Mathematics Meetings, starting tomorrow, it’s time to write another short guide to what I’ve spotted in the program this year. As several earlier years, a LOT of the relevant sessions have been scheduled in parallel, especially on the last day of the conference.

If you are interested in TDA and adjacent topics, you may be interested in:

• AMS Special Session on TDA for Non-linear dynamics
  Sunday 2026-01-04, 08:00 – 12:00, 13:00 – 17:00 in Room 209C
  • Justin Curry: Stratification Theory for Reinforcement Learning
  • Andrei Zagvozdkin et al: Topological Deep Learning and Physics-informed Neural Networks for PDEs on Riemannian Manifolds
  • Michael Robinson: The appearance of stratified spaces in synthetic aperture sonar collections
  • Sara Tymochko et al: Evaluating Resource Coverage using TDA
  • Vitaliy Kurlin: Data Science reveals the stochastic nature of proteins and AlphaFold predictions
  • Maxwell Chumley et al: Dynamical System Parameter Path Optimization using Persistent Homology
  • Sunia Tanweer et al: Phenomenological Bifurcations in Compartmental Stochastic SIS and SIR Models for Epidemiology
  • Himanshu Yadav: Topological Structure of the Cyclonic-Anticyclonic Interactions
  • Soheyl Anbouhi: Improving Topological Detection of Weather Regimes in Climate Dynamical Systems
  • Jacob Bali Sriraman: Topological Time Series Analysis of the Polar Vortex
  • Tung Lam: Delaunay Filtrations for Time-Varying Data
  • James George Moukheiber et al: TDA for Geographical Information Science: Slum Detection and Satellite Imagery
• Steve Huntsman: Motivating coherence-driven inference via sheaves
  Sunday 2026-01-04, 08:00 – 08:30 in Room 102A in the AMS Special Session on Mathematics for AI Robustness, Explainability, and Safety
• Radmila Sazdanovic: The Art of Knot Data
  Sunday 2026-01-04, 11:00 – 11:30 in Room 143A in the SIGMAA Special Session on Mathematics and the Arts
• Radmila Sazdanovic: TDA of Classical and Quantum Invariants
  Sunday 2026-01-04, 13:30 – 14:00 in Room 140B in the AMS Special Session on Knots, Links, Geometry, and related 3-manifolds

• Paul Schrader: Dilating Mission Relevant Impacts of Autonomous Data Driven Topologically-Informed Analytics and Fusion
  Monday 2026-01-05, 10:00 – 11:00 in Room 204A in the AMS Special Session on Data Fusion: Methods, Modeling, and Emerging Applications
• Abigail Hickok: Persistent Homology for Resource Coverage: A Case Study of Access to Polling Sites
  Monday 2026-01-05, 13:30 – 14:00 in Room 141 in the AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Elections and Redistricting

• SIAM Minisymposium on Geometric and Topological Data Analysis with Applications
  Tuesday 2026-01-06, 08:30 – 12:00 in Room 152B
  Wednesday 2026-01-07, 13:00 – 17:00 in Room 152A
  • Drumea Bianca et al: Investigating the Structure of LK-99 using TDA: A Challenge to Superconductivity Claims
  • Benjamin Daniel Jones et al: Efficient Computation of Persistent Topological Laplacians
  • Benjamin Schweinhart: Representations of Micrograph Geometry for Machine Learning
  • Melinda Kleczynski et al: TDA and Multidimensional Scaling for Mass Spectral Libraries
  • Tyrus Berry: Persistent and Coarse Geometry for Comparing Point Clouds
  • Vitaliy Kurlin: Extending persistence to sttronger and faster invariatns of clouds under isometry
  • Graham Johnson et al: Topological Deep Learning for Energy Systems: from TDA Features to Higher-Order Relations
  • Jeanie Schreiber: Topological Shape and Data Analysis for Materials EBSD Imaging
  • Jacob Dylan Rezac et al: Inversion-free Segmentation for Linear Inverse Problems with Shape Priors
  • James Derek Tucker: Elastic Functional Bayesian Model Calibration of Curves in R^N
  • Sebastian Kurtek: Assessment of Spatial Dependence in Shapes of Planar Curves
  • Nicholas Charon et al: SVarM: regression and classification in the space of varifolds

• AMS Special Session on Open Problems in Geometric Data Science
  Wednesday 2026-01-07, 08:00 – 12:00, 13:00 – 17:00 in Room 209C
  • Simon Billinge: Continuous representations of crystals and why that is important for materials and mankind
  • Vitaliy Kurlin: The fundamental questions of Geometric Data Science
  • Harm Derksen: Low distortion Euclidean embeddings for datawith group symmetries
  • Gregor Kemper: Distance geometry, algebra and drones
  • Kathlen Kohn: Viewing Graph Solvability in Computer Vision through the lens of Rigidity Theory and Algebraic Geometry
  • Frank Sottile: Algebraic geometry of periodic graphs operators
  • Erica Flapan: Topological complexity in protein structures
  • Madeleine Clore et al: Mechanistic interpretation of spurious AlphaFold2 predictions
  • Maria Kourkina Cameron: Learning coarse-grained models for molecules and atomic clusters
  • Peter Bubenik et al: Topological Featuer Selection for Time Series Data
  • Sushovan Majhi et al: Vietoris-Rips Shadow for Euclidean Graph Reconstruction
  • Mateo Diaz et al: Any-dimensional equivariant learning
  • Zawad Chowdhury et al: Graphical Designs and Combinatorial Structures

• AMS Special Session on Topological and Geometric Shape Reconstruction
  Wednesday 2026-01-07, 09:00 – 12:00, 13:00 – 16:30 in Room 151B
  • Kevin Knudson et al: Discrete Morse Theory for open complexes
  • Ziga Virk: Contractibility of the Rips complexes of Integer lattices via local domination
  • Peter Bubenik et al: Cycle representatives for persistent homology – localization, statistics and visualization
  • Facundo Memoli et al: The G-Gromov-Hausdorff Distance and Equivariant Topology
  • Henry Adams: Bridging applied and quantitative topology
  • Michael Robinson: Using multi-jet transversality to reconstruct LLM token subspaces
  • Conglong Xu: Stochastic Gradient Descents on Riemannian Manifolds with Applications on Machine Learning Problems
  • Luiz Hartmann et al: Analyzing Covariance on Graph-Structured Data via Generalized PCA
  • Rafal Komendarczyk et al: From Samples to Graphs: Homeomorphic Geometric Reconstruction with Intrinsic Rips

Andrea Guidolin writes:
I would like to advertise a fully funded 3.5-year PhD position at the University of Southampton to work on an interdisciplinary project titled “Topological simplification of single cell data” under the supervision of Professor Ben MacArthur, Professor Ruben Sanchez-Garcia, and myself. The aim of the project is to use topological data analysis to simplify the complex dynamics of single cell data and identify combinations of genes that oscillate in a coordinated manner. The position is co-funded by the Institute for Life Sciences and the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton.

We welcome applications from candidates with a background and/or interest in (applied) algebraic topology or topological data analysis and who are keen to contribute to exciting interdisciplinary research at the interface of Mathematics and Biological Sciences.

To apply for the position, please follow the link below and indicate my name and the project title:

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/apply
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis but we strongly encourage interested candidates to apply before 15 January 2026. The successful candidate must be enrolled on or before 1 January 2027.

For any question, you are welcome to email me at ([email protected]).

This is an announcement for the ICERM Workshop on Foundations of Computational Geometry and Topology:
https://icerm.brown.edu/program/topical_workshop/tw-26-fcg
The workshop will be May 18-21, 2026, in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Applications submitted by December 15 will receive priority. Some funding may be available for travel and lodging. Graduate students who apply must have their advisor submit a statement of support in order to be considered.

Best, the organizers:
Henry Adams, İnanç Baykur, Erin Chambers, Baris Coskunuzer, Jose Perea

The algebraic topology group of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) invites applications for one full-time postdoctoral position in algebraic topology, pure or applied.

This two-year position has a starting date of 1 September 2026 and is open to all candidates with a PhD from no earlier than 2022 who have shown promise of research excellence in pure or applied topology.

In addition to research, duties of the future postdoc will include teaching within the framework of the Mathematics Section of the EPFL.

EPFL salaries are highly competitive.  The group has considerable travel money available for postdocs, as well as a generous budget for inviting guests throughout the year.

Applications, including letter of motivation, CV with publication list, and research plan must be submitted by December 15 via the online application form.  Three letters of recommendation should be sent to [email protected] by the same date.

For further information, please feel free to contact either of us.

Best wishes,
Kathryn Hess and Jérôme Scherer

Christian Pascal Hirsch writes:
It is our pleasure to announce the workshop “H2O: Higher-Order pattern-discovery in High-dimensional data ” at Aarhus University, March 30 & 31, 2026. This is a two-day event designed to forge new connections across three distinct fields of modern statistical research: topological data analysis (TDA), time-series analysis (TSA), and high-dimensional statistics (HDS). At the intersection of these fields lies the critical challenge of identifying patterns in complex data structures, particularly in network data. The workshop features presentations by leading experts in the respective disciplines. 

Our primary audience includes both senior and junior researchers working in mathematical statistics and data science.

The invited lecturers are:

• Martin Bladt (University of Copenhagen)
• Axel Bücher (Ruhr-University Bochum)
• Johannes Heiny (Stockholm University)
• Moritz Jirak (University of Vienna)
• Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University)
• Alexei Onatskiy (University of Cambridge)
• Martina Scolamiero (KTH Stockholm)
• Claudia Strauch (Heidelberg University)

We can provide a very small number of accommodation in double rooms for PhD students/postdocs who have no other funding possibilities (separated by gender). Similarly, we can provide reimbursement for train/flight tickets to a very small number of PhD students/postdocs (at most DKK 1500 per person).

Deadline for registration with submitted talk/request for reimbursement: December 12, 2025

Further information can be found at https://www.aarhush2o.live/

Daniela Egas Santander writes:
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce that I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in applied algebraic topology with applications to broad biological systems at the MPI-CBG in Dresden. This position offers the opportunity to conduct independent research while collaborating closely with our mathematics, network analysis, and biology groups across the institute. 

In addition to these collaborations, particularly with the applied mathematics groups of Heather Harrington, Türkü Özlüm Çelik, Aida Maraj, and Carl Modes, the position also provides the chance to engage in a broader collaboration network, connecting with the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig and the Centre for Topological Data Analysis of the University of Oxford, as well as with the geometry and topology groups at TU Dresden (e.g., Ulrich Krähmer’s group, Andreas Thom’s group). 

The application deadline for this position is 16 November 2025, with a flexible start date in 2026. All terms, funding information, and additional details are available in the advertisement attached or on the application site:

https://careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/60027775/Postdoctoral-Researcher-m-f-d-in-Applied-Topology-for-Biology/

Please circulate this to anyone in your network who may be interested.

Best wishes,

Daniela Egas Santander

Call for papers: ATMCS11 Proceedings

Dear Colleagues,

This is the call for submissions for the ATMCS11 Workshop proceedings, which will be published as a special collection entitled “Algebraic Topology: Methods, Computation, and Science (ATMCS11)” in the journal La Matematica, the official journal of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

We solicit submissions from anyone working in the general area of applied and computational topology, broadly interpreted, and not limited to participants of ATMCS 11.

You can submit on https://www.editorialmanager.com/lama

When submitting, please select Article Type: Manuscript, then when the system asks, “Are you submitting this manuscript to an Article Collection?” reply: Yes, then choose the option “TC: Algebraic Topology: Methods, Computation, and Science (ATMCS11).”

The deadline for submissions is January 21, 2026.

Please let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing your contributions!

Best,

Brittany Terese Fasy, Claudia Landi, and Vanessa Robins, editors

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) seeks to fill two tenure-track position, starting in Fall 2026.

One position is in Applied Mathematics, further information is available at the following link:

https://utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=193051

The second position is in Data Science, further information is available at the following link:

https://utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=193001

Please consider applying and/or sharing with others who may be interested. Also, please contact me if you have any questions.

Best,

Nikola Milićević