Author: Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

This is a call for abstracts for contributed talks, and 
the second announcement of the 10th conference in the ATMCS series which will be held in 

Oxford, 20-24 June 2022

Conference webpage:  https://atmcs.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Abstract submission for contributed talks: https://atmcs.web.ox.ac.uk/register

Dear deadline for submission of abstracts is 31. January 2022.

We are pleased to report that Conference Proceedings of ATMCS10 will be published in conjunction with the Journal of Applied and Computation Topology (APCT). All those contributing to the conference will be invited to submit research and survey papers. Note, this is a separate procedure from the selection of contributed talks. 

The conference is supported by the Centre for Topological Data Analysis.
Limited financial help will be available.

Invited Speakers:
Hélène Barcelo (Arizona State) 
Saugata Basu (Purdue) 
Ulrich Bauer (Technical University of Munich) 
Andrew Blumberg (Columbia) 
Peter Bubenik (Florida) 
Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford) 
Herbert Edelsbrunner (ISTA) 
Alexander Grigor’yan (Bielefeld) 
Facundo Memoli (Ohio State) 
Elizabeth Munch (Michigan State) 
Nina Otter (UCLA) 
Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) 
Eric Sedgewick (De Paul) 
Vin de Silva (Pomona College) 
Katharine Turner (Australian National University)

Scientific Committee:
Jacek Brodzki (Southampton)
Frédéric Chazal (INRIA)
Kathryn Hess (EPFL Lausanne)
Brittany Fasy (Montana State)
Robert Ghrist (UPenn)
Matt Kahle (Ohio State)
Claudia Landi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Primoz Skraba (Queen Mary, London)
Schmuel Weinberger (Chicago)

We look forward to welcoming you next year in Oxford!

Heather Harrington, Vidit Nanda and Ulrike Tillmann

Nina Otter writes:
I would like to advertise a PhD position to work on “Higher-dimensional structure in weather data”, for a September 2022 start, under my supervision at Queen Mary University of London. 

Deadline for applications is 30 January 2022, interviews will be held shortly afterwards. 

The PhD position is funded through a QMUL Postgraduate Research Studentship:

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/funding_phd/studentships/

Applications are invited from outstanding candidates with either a strong background in algebraic topology, or in unsupervised learning and related fields. A masters degree is desirable, but not essential.

Please advertise with any suitable candidates. For any questions they should not hesitate to contact me at [email protected]

For more information on the project, and how to apply, see here:

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/maths/media/maths/postgraduate/phd-projects/Otter_22.pdf

We are currently accepting applications for a virtual Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) for next summer (2022).  Please forward this invitation to undergraduate students who may be interested.   The priority application deadline is February 1, 2022.

The REU is under the co-mentorship of Dr. Jessi Cisewski-Kehe (UW-Madison, Statistics) and Dr. Brittany Terese Fasy (Montana State, Computer Science & Mathematics).  This REU will provide research experience for two undergraduates on statistical approaches to topological data analysis (TDA).  Research projects will address challenges in working with complex data at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and mathematics with the possibility of applications, such as in astronomy.

The expected duration of the REU is 8 weeks, with an approximate start date of 1 June 2022.  The REU includes a weekly stipend plus $2000 for sustenance allowance.

If you are interested in this position, please fill out the application linked below.
Application:  https://montana.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_251O1kVcegarr9Q

More information about our TDA research collaboration: https://comptag.github.io/topostat/

Best wishes, 

Jessi Cisewski-Kehe ([email protected])

Brittany T. Fasy ([email protected])

Jie Wu writes:
I am advertising postdoctoral/regular positions at Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA), which is Shing-Tung Yau’s Applied Math Center in Beijing. (Note. There is a Yau’s Math Center in Tsinghua University. This one is a new center of S. T. Yau aiming to mathematics and its applications, located in the suburban of Beijing City with walking distance to the Great Wall.) 

In addition to postdoctoral positions, BIMSA also hires Research Fellow (professorship), Associate Research Fellow (associate professorship) and Assistant Research Fellow (assistant professorship) in all areas of mathematics, frontiers of physics, computer science, finance and interdiscipline. 

The goal of BIMSA is for being the top five in the International Institutes of Applied Mathematics, with finally reaching the scale of about 300 people. Currently, the insitute has hired about 100 people.

I am pleased to say that topology is one of the areas at BIMSA’s hiring list. I should mention that both pure topology and applied topology are welcome. So far, we are establishing the area of topology. Personally, I hope that the topology team at BIMSA will work on pure math projects as well as applied projects, depending on the interests of individual team members. If anybody has any suggestions/comments/views how to build up the area of topology in a good way, please let me know.

The information of BIMSA’s recruitment is available at 
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/2625

See https://alleninstitute.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req=1679008 for a full description.

Liz Munch writes:

On behalf of the search committee, we are very excited to announce that the Dept of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE) has an open tenure track faculty position in the the broad area of mathematical foundations of data science. All areas of mathematical data science will be considered. Special consideration will be given to candidates with a background in the geometry and topology of big data and its application to real-world domains. 
CMSE is a new, interdisciplinary department sitting at the interface of data science, high performance computing, and domain sciences. Faculty in the department come from a broad range of backgrounds, including mathematics, statistics, engineering, plant biology, physics, and more. We have a vibrant PhD program, and have recently started a very popular undergraduate degree in data science.  
More information can be found in the attached position description, and applications can be uploaded at the link below. Review of applications will begin Jan 4, 2022 and continue until a suitable candidate is identified.  If you would like further information, in particular on our fabulous non-traditional department, please feel free to reach out to me, or to the chair of the search committee, Shin-han Shiu ([email protected]). 
Link to application: https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/508759/assistant-professortenure-system

The Department of Mathematics-Physics-Computer Science of the 
University of Haifa at Oranim College invites applications for a tenure-
track faculty position in all areas of Computer Science, to begin October 
1st 2022. 

The department seeks individuals with excellent research experience 
and strong commitment to undergraduate teaching. A Ph.D. in 
Computer Science and postdoctoral experience are required, as well as 
the ability to teach in Hebrew. A successful applicant will be expected to 
conduct an independent and internationally recognized research 
program and to contribute to the development of the undergraduate 
Math-CS program (the teaching load is usually eight academic hours per 
week).  
 
Applications should include a detailed C.V. including a list of 
publications, a research statement and a teaching statement including 
teaching experience and students surveys if exist. 
Applicants should also arrange for three letters of recommendations, as 
well as the application, to be sent to the department head by December 
31, 2021 via e-mail at: 
 
Dr. Eyal Ackerman  
[email protected] 
 

Chris Kapulkin writes on ALGTOP-L:

The position is open to mathematicians in any area, but includes having part of your teaching in our newly established data science program.
I’d like to stress that you don’t need to do research in data science nor do you need teaching experience related to data science. You do however, in the language of the ad, need to have some “expertise relevant to teaching data science.” I believe the committee will be open to all kinds of ways in which such expertise can be demonstrated.
The deadline to apply for this position is January 2, 2022.
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/19046

Closing date 6 December
154472 Postdoctoral Research Associate in Topological Data Analysis of
Lung Cancer
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=154472

154619 Postdoctoral Research Associate in Topological Data Analysis
Closing date 13 January
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=154619

The Journal of Applied and Computational Topology is soliciting papers for a special issue on the topic “Data Science on Graphs”, to be edited by Santiago Segarra and Gunnar Carlsson.  The solicitation is to be found at 
https://www.springer.com/journal/41468/updates/19759074

Journal of Applied and Computational Topology/www.springer.com

Submission information is available there. 
The goal is to stimulate interaction between those working in topological data analysis with a wide variety of fields including signal processing on graphs, graph neural networks, multilayer networks, and many other areas.