Category: appliedtopology

The School of Mathematics at Cardiff University is currently advertising two Lectureships in Mathematical Sciences (Data-driven Applied Mathematics, Mathematics of Data Science, Operational Research, Statistics). This includes researchers with a background in topological data analysis.

The deadline for applications is 9th November 2021.

Details can be found here:

https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=30011&siteid=5460&PageType=searchResults&SearchType=linkquery&LinkID=6#jobDetails=1867087_5460

Dear Colleagues,

Last spring, AATRN (Applied Algebraic Topology Research Network) and WinCompTop (Women in Computational Topology) hosted the inaugural tutorial-a-thon, where participants created ten-minute YouTube videos on subjects related to applied topology (broadly interpreted). Check out the Spring 2021 tutorial videos here. The event was such a great success that we will be hosting a second tutorial-a-thon this fall!

We will meet Thursday, October 28 at 11:30am Eastern time for a kick-off event, where participants will split into groups to meet in subsequent weeks to practice and record videos. In addition to creating useful content for the community, this event is also a great way to meet new mathematicians! We particularly encourage early career individuals to participate. Please see the webpage https://sites.google.com/view/aatrn-tutorial-a-thon and fill out the interest form to receive more information. 

Best, the organizers: Henry Adams, Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská, Teresa Heiss, Sarah Percival, Lori Ziegelmeier

With thanks to AATRN and WinCompTop.

Playlist from last tutorial-a-thon: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4kY-dS_mSmJabQiM2ySRSUusbvmdIxBt

Associated article in the AMS Notices: https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202109/rnoti-p1511.pdf

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 [email protected]

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

Nicolas Berkouk
Damien Calaque
François Petit

From Paweł Dłotko:

Dear All,
We would like to remind you about the third edition of Applied Topology in the Bedlewo Conference that will happen on 3-8 July 2022. 
Please visit our webpage:
https://www.impan.pl/en/activities/banach-center/conferences/22-appliedtop
This is a conference showcasing cutting edge as well classical aspects of applied topology — both inside and outside mathematics.

We have a strong desire to make this conference an in-person event, as we believe that human-to-human interaction and informal exchange of ideas is the key to a successful conference — something that cannot be replaced by an online meeting. There are a few reasons why we think that we can make this conference safe and enjoyable to our participants.
Firstly, Bedlewo Conference Centre has a vast hotel base, so we can accommodate our participants in single rooms. Lots of activities can be done in fresh air, and at present we are practising all possible options to serve meals in full social distance. Moreover, a new large
a lecture room for 150 persons and with direct screen transmission to other lectures had been constructed recently. This will allow us to keep a distance between participants.

Secondly, the time of the conference, which is the beginning of  July, coincides with a global minimum of a number of Covid infections. We hope to take advantage of those breaks between eventual  pandemic waves to have a successful conference.

Given the restrictions, the number of places is limited, therefore if you want to join us in Bedlewo, we strongly encourage you to register as soon as possible on our webpage. The Organizing Committee will inform you of an acceptance as soon as possible. Please note that some options in the registration form (online participation, booking of a hotel room do not apply to this conference and are there just because of a fixed registration form – please do not use them)

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions,
Looking forward to see yon in Bedlewo,
Best wishes,
Pawel Dlotko
On Behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Paweł Dłotko, Wacław Marzantowicz, Justyna Signerska-Rynkowska

From 4th to 6th of October the Second Workshop on Topological Methods in Data Analysis will take place within the cluster of excellence STRUCTURES at Heidelberg University. The three-day workshop includes introductions into the powerful data analysis machinery of persistent homology, extensive tutorials on the versatile GUDHI library, and in particular features invited colloquial talks by well-known experts in the field, aiming for a broader audience. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to give a short presentation on their own TDA-related work. The workshop will take place online only.

Please find more information including the detailed schedule on the corresponding webpage and the attached information sheet.

We are pleased to announce that registration for the workshop is now open until October 1st. Registration proceeds via filling out this form. Shortly in advance to the workshop we will send around respective Zoom links.

Feel free to share this invitation 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 Michael Bleher, Maximilian Schmahl, Daniel Spitz and Anna Wienhard

Oregon State University invites applications for three full-time 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Mathematics beginning September 16, 2022. The salary is commensurate with research and teaching experience.  Full consideration by November 1, 2021. The areas are: Mathematical Analysis (broadly defined), Applied Topology/Topological Data Analysis, and Probability with Applications in Data Science.  Apply as follows:  Assistant Professor:  Mathematical Analysis  https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/107399  Assistant Professor:  Probability with Applications in Data Science  https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/107414 Assistant Professor:  Applied Topology – Topological Data Analysis   https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/106492 A copy of application must also be submitted on https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs.

Dear All,
We announce with great pleasure that the 10th conference in the ATMCS series will be held in

Oxford, 20-24 June 2022

Conference webpage:  https://atmcs.web.ox.ac.uk/home

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)

In addition there will be contributed talks. A call for submission of abstracts for these talks and posters will follow.
Registration will open at the end of this year. Abstract submission deadline will be in early 2022.

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

We are pleased to report that Conference Proceedings of ATMCS10 will be published in conjunction with the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology (APCT). All those contributing to the conference will be invited to submit research and survey papers.

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

We look forward to welcoming you next year in Oxford!

Heather Harrington, Ulrike Tillmann and Vidit Nanda

Online workshop “Beyond TDA–Persistent topology and its applications in data sciences“, August 28-30, 2021  

Scope:  

Topological data analysis (TDA) and TDA-based machine learning models have achieved great successes in various areas, such as materials, chemistry, biology, sensor networks, shape analysis, scientific visualization, dynamics systems, and image/text/video/audio/graph data analysis. Beyond TDA, various other geometric, topological and combinatorial models have been developed for representation, featurization, and analysis, including:

• Multidimensional persistence, Zig-zag persistence, persistent local homology, 
• Reeb graph, discrete Morse theory, Conley index, 
• Path complex, Neighborhood complex, Dowker complex, hypergraph, and their persistent homology, 
• Geometric anomaly detection, discrete geometry, discrete exterior calculus, etc, 
• Spectral graph, spectral simplicial complex, spectral hypergraph, etc, 
• Graph/Hodge/Tarski Laplacian, p-Laplacian, topological Dirac, 
• Cellular Sheaves, 
• Persistent functions, persistent spectral, persistent Ricci curvature, etc. 

The application of these models in data analysis can be generalized into four stages, i.e., data, topology, feature and learning. Essentially, data are transformed into certain topological representations. Intrinsic geometric/topological/combinatorial features are obtained from these representations and then further input into learning models. This workshop is supported by School of Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 

Confirmed Speakers:
Henry Adams, Colorado State University
Mattia G. Bergomi, Veos Digital, Milano
Ginestra Bianconi, Queen Mary University of London
Wojtek Chacholski, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stefania Ebli, EPFL
Herbert Edelsbrunner, IST Austria
‪Massimo Ferri, University of Bologna
Patrizio Frosini, University of Bologna
Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania
Jurgen Jost, Max Planck Institute
Claudia Landi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Ran Levi, University of Aberdeen
Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers
Vasileios Maroulas, University of Tennessee
Facundo Mémoli, Ohio State University
Marian Mrozek, Jagiellonian University
Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University
Vidit Nanda, Oxford
Andreas Ott, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Francesco Vaccarino, Politecnico di Torino
Guowei Wei, Michigan State University
Kelin Xia, Nanyang Technological University
‪Hiraoka Yasuaki, Kyoto University 

Organizers:
‪Massimo Ferri (UNIBO, Italy)
Vidit Nanda (Oxford, UK)
Jie Wu (HEBTU, China)
Guowei Wei (MSU, USA)
Kelin Xia (NTU, Singapore) 

More detailed information can be found here https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/XIAKELIN/TDAconf.html.

I’m happy to announce a 3-year postdoctorial position in topological and geometric machine learning for marine sustainability at the University of Bergen. The application deadline is on October 31. 

See https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/209769/seas-postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-topological-and-geometric-machine-learning-for-marine-sustainability for the full advertisement and application instructions.

Please contact Nello Blaser ([email protected]) for any inquiries.