Justin Curry writes:

I want to bring to everyone’s attention a new tenure-track position at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). We have several TDA faculty, such as Mike Lesnick and myself, and are actively trying to recruit an additional faculty member who can work with both the TDA and Machine Learning (ML) groups at UAlbany. Details for the job advertisement are below, but I want to emphasize that recruiting women faculty is a priority for us and is part of a recent Project SAGES grant. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me: [email protected]

I also want to provide some personal advocacy for why you might consider joining me and Mike at UAlbany:

First and foremost, UAlbany is an extremely diverse R1 institution with a track record for promoting racial equity. Demographic data varies depending on the source, but approximately 17% of our students are black, 16% are Hispanic or Latino, 8% are Asian, and 4% are multi-racial. Many of our students come from the five boroughs of New York City and are first-generation college students. UAlbany has been regularly recognized for promoting social mobility as an affordable state school and our standing in many rankings have increased considerably over the past few years.

Secondly, UAlbany faculty have a strong union representation through United Union Professionals (UUP). As a result of this, we have great health insurance and annually-obligated 2% raises, which compounds with time, as well discretionary merit-based raises. From what I’ve heard, many schools do not have mandatory raises for their faculty.

Additionally, we are probably one of the few universities in the country with a pension plan for those who choose it. Optional 401k plans are also available and SUNY pays in more than you contribute.

Finally, Albany is a great place to live with plenty of interesting people and affordable housing to boot. Although the individual cities of Albany, Schenectady and Troy each have around 100k people, the Capital District as a whole has over a million people in it. This provides you with lots of possible lifestyles, ranging from the cute brownstones, restaurants and bars of LGBTQ-friendly Center Square (soon to be depicted in HBO’s Gilded Age alongside Troy) to the more quiet Princeton-esque hamlet of Delmar. In addition to a thriving arts scene, the area has lots of professionals: there are lots of jobs with the State of New York—since Albany is the capital—but also many people who work at GE, Regeneron, and GlobalFoundaries. Thanks in part to the CHIPS Act, this is only likely to increase. We have our own international airport, as well as convenient rail access to NYC (only 2 hours by Amtrak) and Boston (~3 hours). If these cities don’t interest you, there are also ample opportunities to hike in the nearby Berkshires, Catskills and Adirondacks, or go boating on one of our many lakes, such as Lake George. Of course, Upstate NY gets plenty of rain and snow, which is why it has so many apples and the most ski resorts of any state.

As you can see from the listing on MathJobs, the deadline for applications is far away: January 15th, 2023.
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/20438

Unfortunately, candidates must apply through our own platform, which can be accessed here:
https://albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=151355

Please reach out if you’re interested in applying!

The Queen’s University of Belfast (UK) is advertising for a Lecturer in Data Analysis. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from those working in Topological Data Analysis and related areas.  

The position is a lectureship (which is roughly equivalent to a starting-level tenured position). Details can be found at

https://hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=753172HgPI&WVID=6273090Lgx&LANG=USA

where one may also apply online. Interested persons should read the Candidate Information carefully.

https://hr.apps.qub.ac.uk/jobs/job_desc/22_110215.pdf?ts=20220905110907

We encourage anyone who feels they meet the Essential Criteria to apply.

The deadline is October 10, 2022. Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Thomas Huettemann (Associate Director of Education for Mathematics) at [email protected] .

The thematic quarter at Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP, Paris) on Geometry and Statistics in Data Sciences, has now started! Its program extends throughout Fall, until December. For the most part, the events will be broadcast online.
Mini-courses and long courses

The invited professors, resident at IHP, will give both mini-courses (~2x1h30) and long courses (~10 lectures throughout Fall), at a research/Masters level.

• Optimal Transport (Quentin Mérigot)
• Embedding for Data Analysis : Multidimensional Scaling and Manifold Learning (Ery Arias-Castro & Eddie Aamari)
• Geometry of Shape Spaces of Curves and Surfaces (Eric Klassen)
• Statistical Topological Data Analysis (Wolfgang Polonik)
• Asymptotic Analysis of Statistics of Random Geometric Structures (Joseph Yukich)
• A Few Applications of Geometric Measure Theory to Shape Analysis (Nicolas Charon)
• Mathematical Aspects of Deep Learning (Mikhail Belkin)
• Some Theoretical Aspects of Graph Neural Networks and Higher Order Variants (Yusu Wang)
• Topological Approaches to Neuroscience (Kathryn Hess)
• Riemannian Geometry on Lie Groups (Stephen Preston)

The complete program is available here.

Three one-week conferences

• Non linear and high-dimensional inference (3-7 October)
• Geometry, topology and statistics in data science (10-14 October)
• Measure-theoretic approaches and optimal transport (21-25 November)

Registration, to each conference separately, is free but compulsory. 
Please check “Remote participation” when registering if you want to attend online.

Hackathon

• Open contributions to the library Geomstats (17-21 October)

Associated events

• Maths-industry day with AMIES (8 November)
• Popularization day (TBA)

Although these events will be broadcast online, we hope to see you many at IHP during the upcoming weeks.

The organizing committee,Eddie Aamari, Catherine Aaron, Frédéric Chazal, Aurélie Fischer, Marc Hoffmann, Alice Le Brigant, Clément Levrard et Bertrand Michel

Sara Kalisnik says: The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor. They are very interested in filling the spot with an applied topologist! Spending a few years there I can say that it is hard to imagine better colleagues or a friendlier working environment!

The MathJobs ad can be found here: https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/20329 with an application deadline of October 1 2022 for your application to receive full consideration. Details available on MathJobs.

Dear colleagues,

The Applied Algebraic Topology Research Network (AATRN) is hosting our third annual interview series, featuring:

Frédéric Chazal interviewed by Steve Oudot – Sep 14, 2022, 11am Eastern

Konstantin Mischaikow interviewed by Tomas Gedeon – Oct 26, 2022, 11am Eastern

Yusu Wang interviewed by Tamal Dey – Dec 7, 2022, 11am Eastern

Claudia Landi interviewed by Barbara Giunti – Feb 1, 2023, 11am Eastern

Leonidas Guibas interviewed by Primoz Skraba – June 21, 2023, 11am Eastern

For the Zoom coordinates, please join the AATRN mailing list by visiting https://groups.google.com/g/aatrn, or email the AATRN directors at [email protected].

You may find recordings of our prior interviews and other videos at https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedAlgebraicTopologyNetwork.

Best, the AATRN directors
Henry Adams, Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská, Teresa Heiss, Sara Kalisnik, Bastian Rieck, Elchanan Solomon
https://www.aatrn.net

From 28th to 30th of September the Third Workshop on Topological Methods in Data Analysis will take place within the cluster of excellence STRUCTURES at Heidelberg University. The main part of the workshop will be a lecture and tutorial series by Bastian Rieck (Helmholtz Zentrum München) on synergies between persistent homology and machine learning. As a supplement, participants will have the opportunity to give short presentations on their own TDA-related work. The workshop will take place primarily online, complemented by on-site get-together opportunities in Heidelberg. More information can be found in the attached flyer and on the workshop’s webpage (tda.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de).

Registration is now OPEN. Please register via
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehfn-UtyqU_bd971vhakUDwbFz24Opgxs1dXIIAvjNZ8l9Jg/viewform

Feel free to share this information with interested colleagues.
We are looking forward to your participation. Do not hesitate to contact us in the case of questions.

Best regards
The organization committee consisting of Lukas Hahn, Maximilian Schmahl, Daniel Spitz and Anna Wienhard

I have an open position for a PhD student (fully-funded, 4 years) to work on the project “Topological study of molecular braids”. 

More information can be found here:
https://workingat.vu.nl/ad/phd-position-topological-study-of-molecular-braids/cqxnmf

Please forward to anyone who might be interested. 

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Dr Senja Barthel
Assistant professor in mathematics
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

On September 30 there will be a one-day meeting on applied topology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The goal of the meeting is to bring together researchers in the Netherlands who are interested in topology and its applications.

Speakers:

• Renee Hoekzema (VU Amsterdam)
• Tim Ophelders (TU Eindhoven, Utrecht)
• Rien van de Weijgaert (Groningen)
• Roland van der Veen (Groningen)
• Jo Ellis-Monaghan (University of Amsterdam)

For more information and a link to the registration form please visit:

https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/more-about/applied-topology-day2022

Please sign up before September 11.

Call for Papers on Random Topology

Guest Editors: D. Yogeshwaran (Indian Statistical Institute, India) and
Omer Bobrowski  (Technion, Israel),  e-mail: [email protected]
APCT Editor: Robert Adler (Technion, Israel)

Studies on the geometry of spatial random structures (e.g., random graphs, sets and fields) have naturally led to the research of the topology of such structures, forming the relatively new field of Random Topology.  Questions in this area are often motivated by the desire to explore higher-dimensional versions of classical lower-dimensional results, as well as by applications in Topological Data Analysis. This special issue will group together a variety of topics at the intersections of Topology, Probability, Combinatorics, and Statistics, with the aim of highlighting recent developments in Random Topology and related fields.  We already have commitments for a number of papers by some of the leading researchers in this area and we would like to invite more  papers exploring both applied and theoretical aspects of Random Topology. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,

• Topology of random simplicial complexes
• Topology of Gaussian random fields
• Higher-order Laplacians and spectral properties
• Random walks on simplicial complexes
• High-dimensional percolation
• Random knots
• Topological inference

Papers will be posted electronically as they are refereed and accepted.

Deadline : December 31, 2022

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the submission guidelines of the journal.

All papers must be submitted to the journal’s submission system. During the submission stage, please select “Yes” for the question “Does this manuscript belong to a special feature?” in Additional Information tab, then select a special feature “S.I. : Random Topology”.

Dear colleagues,

On September 30 there will be a one-day meeting on applied topology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The goal of the meeting is to bring together researchers in the Netherlands who are interested in applied topology.

Link: https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/more-about/applied-topology-day2022

Please sign up before September 11.

Speakers:

Renee Hoekzema (VU Amsterdam)

Tim Ophelders (TU Eindhoven, Utrecht)

Rien van de Weijgaert (Groningen)

Roland van der Veen (Groningen)

Jo Ellis-Monaghan (University of Amsterdam)