Fall Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 28, 2012 00:28:15

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday October 20, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applied Topology, I
Room 306, Leigh Hall
Organizers:
Peter Bubenik, Cleveland State University p.bubenik@csuohio.edu
Matthew Kahle, Ohio State University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Computing Topological Persistence for Simplicial Maps.
  Tamal K Dey*, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
  Fengtao Fan, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
  Yusu Wang, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
  (1084-68-74)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Reeb graphs: Approximation and Persistence.
  Tamal Dey, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., The Ohio State University
  Yusu Wang*, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., The Ohio State University
  (1084-68-105)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Toward understanding complex spaces: graph Laplacians on manifolds with singularities and boundaries.
  Mikhail Belkin*, Ohio State University
  Qichao Que, Ohio State University
  Yusu Wang, Ohio State University
  Xueyuan Zhou, University of Chicago
  (1084-00-157)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Categorification of Persistent Homology.
  Peter Bubenik, Cleveland State University
  Jonathan Scott*, Cleveland State University
  (1084-55-91)

Saturday October 20, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applied Topology, II
Room 306, Leigh Hall
Organizers:
Peter Bubenik, Cleveland State University p.bubenik@csuohio.edu
Matthew Kahle, Ohio State University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Applied Topology and Matrix Methods.
  Anil N. Hirani*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1084-55-168)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Fréchet means for distributions of persistence diagrams (Part 1).
  Katharine Turner*, University of Chicago
  Yuriy Mileyko, Duke University
  Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University
  John Harer, Duke University
  (1084-62-200)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Fréchet means for distributions of persistence diagrams (Part 2).
  Katharine Turner, University of Chicago
  Yuriy Milyeko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Sayan Mukherjee*, Duke University
  John Harer, Duke University
  (1084-62-238)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Persistent Homology for Metric Measure Spaces and Topological Hypothesis Testing.
  Andrew J Blumberg*, University of Texas, Austin
  Itamar Gal, University of Texas, Austin
  Michael A. Mandell, Indiana University
  Mathew Pancia, University of Texas, Austin
  (1084-55-348)

Sunday October 21, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applied Topology, III
Room 306, Leigh Hall
Organizers:
Peter Bubenik, Cleveland State University p.bubenik@csuohio.edu
Matthew Kahle, Ohio State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Spaceofcoverings.
  Yuliy Baryshnikov*, UIUC
  (1084-55-357)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Persistent Homology Based Geodesic Distance Estimator for Dimesion Reduction.
  Paul Bendich*, Duke University
  Jacob Harer, North Carolina State University
  John Harer, Duke University
  (1084-55-309)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Reincarnations in persistent homology with application to shape skeleta.
  Yuriy Mileyko*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  John Harer, Duke University
  (1084-55-277)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Euler integration of Gaussian random fields and persistent homology.
  Omer Bobrowski, Duke University
  Matthew Strom Borman*, University of Chicago
  (1084-60-226)
- 10:30 a.m.
  How Noise Crackles.
  Omer Bobrowski*, Duke University
  (1084-60-223)

Sunday October 21, 2012, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applied Topology, IV
Room 306, Leigh Hall
Organizers:
Peter Bubenik, Cleveland State University p.bubenik@csuohio.edu
Matthew Kahle, Ohio State University
- 1:30 p.m.
  The Whitney embedding theorem in signal processing.
  Michael Robinson*, American University
  (1084-57-54)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Multicore Homology.
  Ryan H Lewis*, Stanford
  Afra Zomorodian, The D.E. Shaw Group
  (1084-55-58)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Cosheaves and Dualities in Generalized Sensor Networks.
  Justin M Curry*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1084-55-64)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Application of topology to granular materials.
  Miroslav Kramar*, Rutgers
  Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers
  Lou Kondic, NJIT
  Arnaud Goullet, NJIT
  (1084-70-217)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Discussion