Author: Nicolas Berkouk

We are glad to announce that next year’s Young Topologists Meeting (YTM) will take place at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, from July 24th to July 28th 2023.

The purpose of YTM is to offer young topologists an occasion to come together and present their work in a relaxed and informal setting.

The program will consist of short talks given by the participants and two series of lectures by Professor Katharine Turner (Austalian National University) and Professor Marc Hoyois (University of Regensburg).

Registration is now open until the 31th of march, please fill in the following form if interested.

Information about the conference is available at: ytm2023.epfl.ch. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organizers via ytm2023@epfl.ch

We are looking forward to seeing you in Lausanne!

Kind regards,

The organizers

Nicolas Berkouk, Hadrian Heine, Henry Kirveslahti, Samuel Lavenir, Kelly Maggs, Olivia Monjon, Victor Roca i Lucio, Bernadette Stolz-Pretzer

Dear all,

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join the Persistence, Sheaves and Homotopy Theory (PSHT) online seminar that will be held every second Tuesday of the month, from 3pm to 4:30pm CET. It aims to gather the mathematical communities who have a common interest in the theoretical aspects of persistence, and to foster interactions between them.

You can find the informations of the seminar at our website: https://nberkouk.github.io/psht.html

Here is the program of our two first sessions:

9th November, 3-4:30 pm CET

Léonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University)

Magnus Botnan (VU, Netherlands)

14th December, 3-4:30 pm CET

Rick Jardine (WU, Canada)

Jun Zhang (Université de Montréal)

Please don’t hesitate to spread the word with your colleagues or students that could be interested in participating. In order to be added to the mailing list, you shall send an email at nicolas.berkouk@epfl.ch

We hope to see you on the 9th of November,
Best regards,

Nicolas Berkouk
Damien Calaque
François Petit

Dear Applied Topologists,

It is our pleasure to invite you to the Mini-Symposium part of the SIAM-AG21 conference on Sheaves and Homotopical Methods for Topological Data Analysis, which will take place virtually on the 18th of August 2021.

If you are interested in participating, please register here before the 9th of August.

We look forward to see you there,

With best regards,

Nicolas Berkouk & François Petit

Abstract

The theory of one-parameter persistence was developed in the early 2000’s as an attempt to define topological descriptors of datasets which are robust to noise – the so-called barcodes. Since then, it has led to important advances in diverse areas: material sciences, time series analysis, neuroscience, and neural networks, just to name a few. Although well understood, one-parameter persistence faces several limitations such as sensitivity to outliers or to the user’s choice of the function filtering the data. To overcome these shortcomings, the persistence community has introduced a generalization of the above construction: multi-parameter persistence. In this context, the algebraic theory of multi-parameter persistence becomes more complex, and the need for more refined techniques originating from algebraic topology and algebraic geometry more evident. In this symposium, the speakers will present their advances in the field of topological data analysis with a sheaf theoretical or homotopical perspective. They will emphasize the benefits of taking a more abstract point of view on theoretical as well as on applied problems and explain the challenges of computability raised by these approaches.

Organizers: Nicolas Berkouk & François Petit

Program (Eastern Time)

9:00-9:25 Sheaves As Data Structures, abstract , Robert W. Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.

9:30-9:55 Computational Topology in Intersection Theory, abstract, Vidit Nanda, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Martin Helmer, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.

10:00-10:25 Distances on Sheaves, abstract, François Petit, Sorbonne Universités, France; François Petit, Université de Paris, France

10:30-10:55 The Amplitude of An Abelian Category: Measures in Persistence Theory, abstract, Nina Otter, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.

2:40-3:05 Multi Parameter Persistence on Crossroads of Homotopy Theory and Statistics, abstract, Wojciech Chacholski, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

3:10-3:35 Homotopy Invariant Notions of Interleaving and Applications, abstract, Luis Scoccola, Michigan State University, U.S.

3:40-4:05 Persistent Homotopical Algebra, abstract, Grégory Ginot, Université Paris 13, France

4:10-4:35 The Truncated Interleaving Distance for Reeb Graphs, abstract, Elizabeth Munch, Michigan State University, U.S.