AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

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

Fall Central Sectional Meeting
University of Akron, Akron, OH
October 20-21, 2012 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1084

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