Author: Henry Adams

We are reaching out to you on behalf the of the organizers of the 34th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications. The NSF has just approved funding for some US participants to travel to the conference (July 1 – 4, 2019), especially students and early career faculty. This year, there is a session on topology in data science organized by Magnus Botnan (Vrije Univ.), Sara Kalisnik (Wesleyan), and Christian Lehn (TU Chemnitz).
If you know of any body that might be interested in attending our conference (particularly US based students, early career faculty, and members of under-represented groups), will you please pass along this information:
34th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications
Johannesburg, South Africa, July 1 – 4, 2019

US based participants apply for funding here (decisions made by April 17)

Early registration by June 5, 2019Abstract submission by May 31, 2019
Thank you very much for your help. Information about sessions and speakers is copied below.

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We inform you that registration is now open for the 34th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications to be held 1-4 July 2019 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

We kindly invite you to participate in the conference by giving a 20-25 minutes talk. Abstract submission is open until May 31, 2019.

The conference will feature the following special sessions:

1.   Topological Algebra and Analysis

Lydia Aussenhofer

Ahmed Bouziad

Salvador Hernandez

2.   Asymmetric Structures and Order

Tom Richmond

Josef Slapal

3.   Dynamics and Continuum Theory

Paul Bankston

Sergio Macias

4.   Set-Theoretic Topology

Osvaldo Guzman

Michael Hrusak

Jonathan Verner

5.   Topology in Data Science

Magnus Botnan

Sara Kalisnik

Christian Lehn

Plenary speakers:

Topological Algebra and Analysis

Taras Banakh ( Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Ukraine)

Mahmoud Filali (University of Oulu, Finland)

Francesco Russo (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Asymmetric Structures and Order

Szymon Dolecki (Burgundy University, France)

Seithuti Philemon Moshokoa (Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa)

Michel Schellekens (University College Cork, Ireland)

Dynamics and Continuum Theory

Daron Anderson (NUI Galway, Ireland)

Judy Kennedy (Lamar University, USA)

Petra Staynova (University of Leicester)

Set-Theoretic Topology

Rodrigo Hernandez (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)

Jan van Mill (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Dilip Raghavan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Topology in Data Science

Vladimir Itskov (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Yusu Wang (Ohio State University, USA)

Winner of the Mary Ellen Rudin Award

Osvaldo Guzman (University of Toronto, Canada)

Dear all,

We are happy to share the second (and final) announcement for the ICERM topical workshop on “Applied Mathematical Modeling with Topological Techniques”, August 5-9, 2019. Applications are due on Monday, March 18.

For further information, please see the workshop webpage
https://icerm.brown.edu/topical_workshops/tw19-6-ammtt/
or the advertisement poster
https://www.math.colostate.edu/~adams/talks/AppliedMathModelingPoster.pdf

Best,
The Organizers
Henry Adams, Maria D’Orsogna, Rachel Neville, Jose Perea, Chad Topaz

Conference on Geometric Data Analysis, May 20-23, 2019, on the University of Chicago main campus in Hyde Park.

This conference will bring together experts from around the world in the combination of geometrical or topological methods with probabilistic and statistical ones for the study of data.  Different ideas have been found valuable in the handling of different kinds of data, and we hope to promote discussions of what works and what fails, and when and why.

Invited Speakers

Yuliy Baryshnikov, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois

Mikhail Belkin, Computer Science, Engineering and Statistics, Ohio State University

Paul L. Bendich, Mathematics, Duke University

Omer Bobrowski, Electrical Engineering, Technion, Institute of Technology, Israel

Jeff Brock, Yale University

Gunnar Carlsson, Mathematics, Stanford University

Daniela Egas Santander, Topology and Neuroscience, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Tamal Krishna Dey, Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University

Tingran Gao, Statistics, University of Chicago

Herbert Edelsbrunner, Computer Science and Mathematics, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria

Clément Levrard, Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation, Université Paris Diderot, France

Mauro Maggioni, Mathematics, John Hopkins University

Facundo Mémoli, Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University

Bertrand Michel, Informatique et Mathématiques, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France

Ezra Miller, Mathematics, Duke University

Sayan Mukherjee, Statistical Science, Duke University

Takashi Owada, Statistiques, Purdue University

Gennady Samorodnitsky, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

Benjamin Schweinhart, Mathematics, Ohio State University

Amit Singer, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton University

Jonathan Taylor, Statistics, Stanford University

Katharine Turner, Mathematical Sciences, National University, Australia

Details about the conference are available on our website:

• Logistical details this is a 4-day conference (May 20-23, 2019) on the University of Chicago maincampus in Hyde Park.
•  Registration is free and open until May 13, 2019. 
•  Join our mailing list to receive reminders and updates.

Please note: 

• Travel funds are available to PhD Students, Postdoctoral Students and Early CareerAcademics.  Please submit your application by January 9, 2019.

You will be asked to submit your CV, a brief research statement (up to 250 words), and a brief statement explaining why and how attending this conference will contribute to your research (up to 250 words). In addition, please ask someone who is familiar with your work (your academic advisor or your mentor) to send a brief letter supporting your application to sbendier@uchicago.edu, by January 9, 2019. The letter should be addressed to the GDA 2019 Selection Committee.

• Poster sessions will be organized. If you’d like your poster to be considered, please submit your application by January 9, 2019.

If you have any questions, please email Sylvie at sbendier@uchicago.edu

We hope to see you in May!

Scientific Committee: Robert Adler (Technion), Frederic Chazal (INRIA), Shmuel Weinberger (Chicago)

Oxford is advertising two post-doctoral positions in Topological Data Analysis, each for three years, with a deadline of 10 December 2018. For details see
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/30584

The positions are associated to the new Centre of Topological Data Analysis
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/groups/topological-data-analysis

Swansea University in Wales in currently advertising a 2 year postdoctoral research position in topological data analysis.

As part of the major EPSRC-funded Oxford-Swansea-Liverpool Centre for Topological Data Analysis, we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the Swansea team in investigating applications of topology to data science and physics. The Swansea team consists of Pawel Dlotko, Jeff Giansiracusa, Biagio Lucini, and PhD students.

We are particularly interested in applicants with background in any of these areas:
* Computational topology / geometry
* Computational physics and lattice gauge theory
* Data science or machine learning

The ideal candidate will have some computer coding experience and be willing to learn new things.

Full details and application instruction can be found here:
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/details.php?nPostingID=23418&nPostingTargetID=36652&option=52&sort=DESC&respnr=1&ID=QHUFK026203F3VBQB7VLO8NXD&LOV4=7814&LOV5=7978&JOBADLG=UK&Resultsperpage=20&lg=UK&mask=suext

Salary: from £33,518 to £38,833

Closing date: 4 November 2018

Please contact
Pawel Dlotko ( P.T.Dlotko@swansea.ac.uk ) or
Jeff Giansiracusa ( j.h.giansiracusa@swansea.ac.uk )
if you are interested.

We are happy to announce an ICERM topical workshop on “Applied Mathematical Modeling with Topological Techniques”, August 5-9, 2019. Please see our webpage
https://icerm.brown.edu/topical_workshops/tw19-6-ammtt/

Mathematical modelers face a variety of challenges, including summarizing large data sets to understand and explore a system of interest, inferring the model parameters most accurate for describing a given data set, and assessing the goodness-of-fit between data sets. Computational topology provides a lens through which these challenges may be addressed. At the same time, just as topological techniques provide opportunities for modelers, the challenges that modelers face give rise to opportunities for applied topologists. For instance, topologists may develop techniques that make model predictions based on the topology of experimental or simulation data, that analyze time-varying data, or that turn model outputs into formats suitable for machine learning.

This workshop brings together the applied mathematical modeling and applied topology communities, aiming to give modelers exposure to topological techniques still not commonly used in their community, and to give topologists exposure to modeling challenges that might stimulate the development of new techniques.

The workshop will include tutorial sessions on modeling and on applied topology, during which participants will learn by doing hands-on computational exercises. Because the broad goal of this workshop is to encourage collaboration between members of the applied modeling and topology communities, a significant portion of the week will be devoted to participants initiating research on problems proposed by the organizers. The research problems will afford the potential for continued collaboration beyond the workshop.

Best,
The organizers
Henry Adams, Maria D’Orsogna, Rachel Neville, Jose Perea, Chad Topaz

We are planning to organize the following workshop in Kyoto:

Workshop on Applied Topology 2019
Date: January 7-11, 2019
Venue: Kyoto University, Japan
Webpage: http://math.kyokyo-u.ac.jp/~yokoyama/WAT2019.html

The registration is now open. There are several slots for contributed talks, and
the travel support is also available (limited).

Best,
Yasu Hiraoka

We invite you to apply to attend the TRIPODS Summer Bootcamp on Topology and Machine Learning. The bootcamp will be hosted at ICERM during the week of August 6-10, 2018. Applications are currently being accepted, and will be accepted until July 5. For more information, please see the webpage at
https://icerm.brown.edu/tripods/tri18-2-tml/

Best,
Henry Adams, Colorado State University
Jeffrey Brock, Brown University
Melissa McGuirl, Brown University
Bjorn Sandstede, Brown University
Isaac Solomon, Brown University

Postdoctoral positions are available for large-scale brain image and network analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The postdoctoral fellow will work with professor Moo K. Chung (www.stat.wisc.edu/~mchung) on developing new innovative statistical and machine learning methods for large scale brain images and networks.

Candidates should have received or expected to receive PhD degree or equivalent in mathematics, CS, EE, statistics, physics, biomedical engineering, psychology, neuroscience or related areas. Previous neuroimaging research experience is a plus but not necessary. Expertise in the following areas may be useful: matrix computation, time series analysis, manifold learning, topological data analysis, functional analysis, graph & network analysis.

Interested candidates should email CV (with the name of references) and two representative papers to Moo K. Chung (mkchung@wisc.edu).