Category: appliedtopology

The Nonlinear Algebra Group at MPI Leipzig welcomes applications by outstanding candidates for its postdoctoral fellows program. See
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/14404
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/14148

Early applications are encouraged.  Files are reviewed as they arrive. Selected applicants will be e-interviewed in November and December.

Positions are available in Michael Joswig’s group for Mathematical Software, as well as in a range of areas including Algebraic Statistics, Applied Algebraic Geometry, Mathematics of Data, Discrete Random Geometry and Mathematical Machine Learning.

The Centre for Geometry, Topology, and Application is currently advertising a three year postdoctoral position to work on a new, exciting project where topological data analysis will be used in combination with experimental physics and mathematical modelling to  design, fabricate, evaluate and improve novel nanomaterials. The project offers an excellent opportunity to expand the current topological methodology both in its theoretical foundations and its range of applications. 

The position is available from 1st October, and there is a degree of flexibility regarding the starting date. For details of the position and how to apply please see 
https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=21344&forced=2
I will be happy to answer any queries regarding the position. The deadline for applications is 13 August. 
Jacek Brodzki

Two NSF/NIH funded postdoc positions are available in the following fields:

-Computational or applied topology/geometry/graph/algebra

-Machine learning/deep learning

-AI-based drug design and discovery

-Computational biophysics

Ideal candidates should have experience in code development, have demonstrated the potential for excellence in research, and hold a recent Ph.D. degree in either mathematics, computer science, computational biophysics, computational chemistry, or bioinformatics. The selected candidates will be teamed up with top performers in recent D3R Grand Challenges, a worldwide competition series in computer-aided drug design. Salary depends on experience but will be at least $47.5k. The positions enjoy standard faculty health benefit. Please send CV to [email protected].

2019 Union College Math Conference to be held in Schenectady, NY on the dates Friday Sept 13 – Sunday Sept 15. There will be parallel sessions in: Differential Geometry, Geometric Analysis, and Mathematical Physics; Applied Topology; History of Mathematics; and Number Theory. The plenary speakers are:

Robert Ghrist (University of Pennsylvania)

Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth College)

Álvaro Lozano-Robledo (University of Connecticut)

John McCleary (Vassar College) 

The website for the conference can be found here:  

Registration is currently open, and the (first) deadline for abstract submission is July 19.

Dr. Juan Ramirez wants to pass on a call for research papers to the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications.  He is the special session chair for a session called ” Topological Data Analysis in Machine Learning”. Below is a link of the special session solicitation. Conference papers for this session are due September 7th 2019 and carry a maximum page number of 8 pages.  (https://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla19/SS_TopologicalDataAnalysis.pdf)

Helwig Hauser writes:

• Four years PhD project position available at the University of Bergen
• Interdisciplinary project: machine learning for ensemble prediction in weather and climate with topological data analysis and visualization
• Application deadline:  August 15, 2019
• Main contact: Nello Blaser (UiB Informatics)
• Details and application portal at https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/172283/phd-position-in-informatics-machine-learning
  

Research Fellowship in Topological Complexity of Neural Networks

We are currently advertising a one-year postdoctoral position to start on 1st September which will be based within the School of Mathematical Sciences. This project is supported by the Alan Turing Institute and the University of Southampton, and is devoted to the study of foundational questions regarding the quantification of the complexity of neural networks.

The successful candidate will work in a thriving interdisciplinary research group at Southampton and will have access to the Alan Turing Institute. The details of the position, requirements, and application procedure are given on jobs.soton.ac.uk, with the reference number 1153919PJ. Jacek Brodzki <[email protected]> would be happy to answer any questions regarding the post. The deadline for applications is 24 July.

Primoz Skraba writes:
Announcing a persistent homology layer for PyTorch. The layer takes in either a simplicial complex or a point cloud, computes the persistence diagram and given an energy function automatically backpropogates. This allows for simple integration with other PyTorch modules as well as continuous optimization over persistence diagrams. Our goal is to make experimentation combining topology and deep networks easier and more accessible.

The module along with installation instructions and several examples can be found at https://github.com/bruel-gabrielsson/TopologyLayer

The companion paper describing the examples can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12200

16th UNION COLLEGE MATHEMATICS CONFERENCE

Schenectady, New York

September 13-15, 2019

This year, the conference topics are applied topology; differential geometry, geometric analysis, and mathematical physics; number theory; and the history of mathematics. The plenary speakers of the conference are:

• Robert Ghrist (University of Pennsylvania)
• Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth College)
• Álvaro Lozano-Robledo (University of Connecticut)
• John McCleary (Vassar College)

Justin Curry, Michael Lesnick, and I are co-organizing the special session on applied topology. We would like to encourage you to submit an abstract for a 20 minute talk in this special session.  We hope to have 10-12 speakers in total. The deadline for abstract submissions is July 19, 2019.For more information about the conference and to register, please visit our website at:http://www.math.union.edu/~hatleyj/UnionConference2019/UCMC2019index.html

We hope to see you in Schenectady in September!

On behalf of the organizers,

Ellen Gasparovic

The School of Engineering of EPFL in Switzerland is pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the annual Engineering PhD Summit, a workshop for final year PhD students. This year the summit will focus on “Intelligent Systems”, i.e., software and/or hardware systems that can interact with their dynamic environments, process data, perform proper actions, and improve over time,  see  https://phdsummit.epfl.ch/intelligent-systems/

• Workshop dates: October 2-4, 2019
• Deadline for application: May 31st, 2019

Top final year PhD students from around the world are invited to apply. Up to 20 candidates will be selected on a very competitive basis and invited to EPFL Switzerland, where they will get the opportunity to present their research and get informal feedback from top faculty members. Each accepted student will be given the opportunity to visit EPFL laboratories related to the summit theme and have intensive exchange with the lab head and the students. The PhD Summit prize for the best presentation and research content will be awarded at the end of the workshop. Funds for travel and accommodation will be provided for the selected candidates.Visit the Engineering PhD Summit website: https://phdsummit.epfl.ch/

More details about the application process: https://phdsummit.epfl.ch/application-process/