Author: Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

Paweł Dłotko writes:

I would like to invite you (and your students) to join us at the Dioscuri Centre in Topological Data Analysis located in the Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Together with me, we have 3 postdoctoral researchers, 4 PhD students, a group of interns and a wide group of collaborators in various disciplines of science and the industry. Our task is to bring mathematics, especially topology, to the scientific and industrial practice. You can find more about us on our webpage:https://dioscuri-tda.org/

As well as our Facebook and Twitter page.

We are happy to answer any questions you may have.Note the short application deadline!!

Please find more details here: https://www.impan.pl/wydarzenia/konkursy/2022/dioscuripostdocannouncemnet2022-sig.pdf

Postdoc Position in TDA for Personalized Medicine, INRIA (Saclay) and CRESS (Paris) , France

The PreMediT project is offering a 12-months post-doctoral position, renewable once. 

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with an expertise in statistics, machine learning, or applied topology, with a strong interest for applications in health sciences. The project aims at developing new mathematical and computational tools for personalized medicine, with a particular focus on topological methods. 
 

More details at https://geometrica.saclay.inria.fr/data/Steve.Oudot/postdoc_position.pdf 

Practical information

Education level: Doctoral degree in mathematics, statistics or computer science 
Location: Inria (Saclay) and Hôtel-Dieu (Paris) 
Starting date: Sept. 2022 – Jan. 2023 
Duration: 12 months, renewable once 
Salary: around 2 100 euros net /month, health insurance included 
Contact: [email protected], [email protected] 

How to apply:

send an e-mail to both addresses above, with the following attachments: 

• a cover letter, with a brief account of your research interests and motivation for applying to the position
• a resume and a complete list of publications
• the names and email addresses of at least 2 references.

https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:518395/where:4/

It is a position affiliated with WASP graduate school (https://wasp-sweden.org/graduate-school/).

It is a very attractive position with additional finances for travel etc. and future possibilities with even more attractive postdoc opportunities open only to WASP students.
It also comes with additional responsibilities as WASP students are required to follow an extended curriculum including, in addition to standard math department requirements, courses in machine learning etc.

The program is highly competitive and we look for gifted and motivated individuals. 
I would greatly appreciate if you could inform any student that might be interested in this opportunity to contact me at ([email protected]).

Announcement of the 10th Annual Minisymposium on Computational Topology
https://sarascaramuccia.github.io/wocg2022/
to take place during CG Week 2022 
https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-ti/socg22/workshops.html
(June 7-10) in Berlin, Germany (with remote option) 

This workshop is intended to bring together researchers working in applied, computational, and quantitative topology as well as topological combinatorics, with interests in the fields of visual computing and machine learning to foster exchange of ideas. 

The workshop will span two afternoons (Central Europe Time):
 – on June 7 from 3:30pm to 6:00pm;
 – on June 8 from 3:30pm to 5:00pm. 
 Four presentations are programmed for the first half day and two for the second one. 

Details and registration, for either in-person or remote participation, are available at the conference website link
https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-ti/socg22/workshops.html

Invited speakers are:
Giovanni Bocchi,  Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) 
Stefania Ebli,  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) 
Mustafa Hajij,  Santa Clara University (USA) 
Vitaliy Kurlin, University of Liverpool (UK) 
Kathryn Lindsey,  Boston College (USA) 
Yusu Wang, University of California (USA) 

We look forward to seeing you in Berlin!

Best regards,

The organizing committee
Claudia Landi, Daniela Giorgi, Ulderico Fugacci, and Sara Scaramuccia

It is our pleasure to announce the conference “Algebraic Topology and Topological Data Analysis: a conference in honor of Gunnar Carlsson” at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) in Minneapolis,  August 1–5, 2022. Funding is available by application on the website 
https://ima.umn.edu/2021-2022/SW8.1-5.22

Early career mathematicians will be prioritized for travel funding. Full consideration will be given to funding requests received by June 10.

Currently confirmed speakers

Henry Adams
Niny Arcila-Maya
Chad Giusti
Kathryn Hess-Bellwald
Rick Jardine
Roy Joshua
Sara Kalisnik 
Sanjeevi Krishnan
Anibal Medina-Mardones
Mona Merling 
Jose Perea
Emily Riehl
Santiago Segarra
Ulrike Tillmann
Craig Westerland
Ben Williams
Jenny Wilson
Ling Zhou 
Vin de Silva

We hope to see you in Minneapolis!
Best wishes,
Matthew Kahle, Facundo Mémoli, and Kirsten Wickelgren

duration: 3 years
starting date: as soon as possible
location: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

This new position is funded by Prof. Milica Gasic’ ERC starting grant DYMO, and thus comes with no teaching duties. The aim of the project is to build the next generation of human-computer dialogue models. The postdoc will investigate the use of topological data analysis in natural language generation, combating the known problems of large pre-trained language models. Any insights gained could be applied to other areas of human-computer dialogue modelling and natural language processing more generally, where the current neural network models face limitations.

While this position is primarily based within the research group of Prof. Milica Gasic (Dialogue Systems and Machine Learning), collaboration with my group (Topology and Geometry) is expected, and I will be closely involved in the selection of candidates. Prior experience in one or more of the named areas would be beneficial, but we encourage outstanding candidates from all areas of mathematics to apply.

The position will be paid at the TV-L E13 scale (see https://www.academics.com/guide/salary-researchers-germany for more information). No knowledge of German is required.

Applications should be sent to milica.gasic at hhu.de by 15 June.  For informal enquiries, please contact either milica.gasic at hhu.de or me (marcus.zibrowius at hhu.de).

JOB DESCRIPTION

What we offer:
We offer a postdoc position within the Department of Mathematical Sciences as part of the project “Deciphering Nanoporosity of Amorphous Materials using Topological Data Analysis”. The selected candidate will be conducting research supervised by Lisbeth Fajstrup and Christophe A.N. Biscio and in collaboration with the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience to find new topological descriptors of porosity. The selected candidate will visit Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA for 4 months to collaborate with Staff Scientist Dmitriy Morozov.

What we request:
The selected candidate will hold a PhD in Mathematics or a related field and will have promising research results within Topological Data Analysis, Computational Topology or related subjects.
The project to which the postdoc will contribute involves developing new computational topological methods to describe variations of the free volume and in particular tunnels in amorphous materials and implementation of such insight as a tool. This will require a strong background in Topological Data Analysis either computational or theoretical.

Salary and benefits
Please contact International Staff Unit https://www.isu.aau.dk/ for information regarding salary and taxes. Courses in Danish will be offered if needed.

Working and living in Aalborg and Denmark
The city of Aalborg is lively with a wide variety of music and cultural events, top notch restaurants, fresh air and easy access to natural parks, forests, and great beaches.

As employee at Aalborg University you will obtain health insurance as a resident of Denmark, this also includes family members officially residing in Denmark.

https://www.stillinger.aau.dk/vis-stilling/?vacancy=1189918

The French meeting on Computational Geometry (JGA — Journées de Géométrie Algorithmique) will be 100% virtual this year, and will take place the afternoons (French time) from:

Monday May 30th to Wednesday June 1st 2022.

We invite contributed talks both in French and in English, and particularly encourage PhD students and early career researchers to give presentations on their work (see below for registration).

***** DESCRIPTION *****

The JGA conference is dedicated to uniting members of the French research community interested in Computational Geometry and related fields, including but not restricted to algorithms and computational complexity, geometric and topological data analysis, combinatorics, computer graphics, discrete geometry, optimal transport and geometric measure theory, among other areas.

The conference is especially geared towards creating an environment for young members of the research community, including PhD students and postdocs, to present their recent results and to interact with other researchers. One of the main goals is to foster and encourage new ideas in a welcoming setting.

This year, we are happy to announce 3 keynotes by invited speakers:

-) Marthe Bonamy (CNRS-LaBRI)

-) Arnau Padrol (IMJ-PRG)

-) Gabriel Peyré (CNRS-ENS)

***** REGISTRATION *****

Registration is FREE but MANDATORY. The registration is open until May 20th.

All of the information regarding JGA 2022, as well as the registration page, are available on the conference website:

https://project.inria.fr/jga2022/

Please feel free to distribute this announcement as widely as possible.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

– Mathieu Carrière (INRIA)

– Kristóf Huszár (INRIA)

– Clément Maria (INRIA)

https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~idarcy/CONF/TDV.html

May 16 – 20, 2022     University of Iowa

Organizers:
Isabel Darcy, University of Iowa
Bei Wang, University of Utah

Funded by NSF DMS RTG 2038103: PI Keiko Kawamuro

Some datasets are too small for standard statistical/data analysis to
accurately characterize the data. Others are extremely large and data
size reduction methods may be needed. One solution is to use
topological data analysis to simplify and/or visualize data. This
workshop will include both tutorials and research talks on topological
techniques for visualizing data.

This is an in-person workshop with a hybrid component for those who
wish to join virtually.

Free registration. Travel funds are available for speakers and
graduate students.

René Corbet writes
Dear all,

We would like to announce the Conference on the Mathematics of Complex Data in Stockholm on June 13-16, 2022, hosted by the Brummer & Partners MathDataLab at the Department of Mathematics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

The aim of the conference is to bring together leading experts in the field and highlight recent advances in mathematics related to data analysis and artificial intelligence. The conference is intended to cover a broad range of topics with emphasis on data analysis, including algebra and topology, probability and statistics, applied harmonic analysis, and optimization.

The following is a snippet of topics covered at the conference.
* Algebraic statistics
* Applied harmonic analysis
* Computational methods for complex data
* Control and optimisation in machine learning
* High-dimensional statistics
* Mathematics of deep learning
* Stochastic analysis in learning
* Topological data analysis

The list of our speakers includes Patrick Cheridito (ETH, Zurich), Anna Gilbert (University of Michigan), Kathryn Hess Bellwald (EPFL), Mauro Maggioni (Johns Hopkins University), Eric Moulines (Ecole Polytechnique), Bernd Sturmfels (Berkeley/MPI Leipzig), Joel Tropp (Caltech), and Sara van de Geer (ETH, Zurich).

The registration is open. For more details see https://www.mathdatalab.org/ .

We will also organize a poster session. You are very welcome to apply for contributing by presenting your poster. We are preparing a book of abstracts for the conference. To be included, we need the applications for the poster by April 30.
Here is a link to the application for the poster session: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSej0C68CEAZmdctAaAcq-TQ8fhQiJ7rIjZzdBg-eX6IoTrXsw/viewform?usp=pp_url

We are excited to welcome you to Stockholm this summer!

Best wishes from the organizing team, René Corbet