AWM ADVANCE workshop at JMM 2019, Baltimore, MD. Special Session organized by the WinCompTop Research Network.
Saturday January 19, 2019
Special Session on Applied and Computational Topology
8:30am-5:00pm, Room 307, Baltimore Convention Center
Organizers:
- Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
- Yusu Wang, Ohio State University
Speakers:
- 8:30am – 9:10am Christine Heitsch, Georgia Institute of Technology
Spaces of RNA branching configurations
- 9:30am – 9:50am Anthea Monod, Columbia University
Tropical Statistics & Geometry of Phylogenetic Tree Space
- 10:00am – 10:20am Sara Kalisnik, Wesleyan University
Learning Algebraic Varieties from Samples
- 10:30am – 10:50am Hee Rhang Yoon, Georgia Institute of Technology
Cellular cosheaves for distributed computation of persistent homology
- 11:00am – 11:20am Ellen Gasparovic, Union College
The Relationship Between the Intrinsic Cech and Persistence Distortion Distances for Metric Graphs
- 11:30am – 11:50am Bei Wang, University of Utah
An Introduction to Discrete Stratified Morse Theory
- 12:00pm – 12:20pm Nina Otter, Oxford University
Invariants for multiparameter persistence and their computation
- 2:00pm – 2:40pm Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
Graph rules for inhibitory network dynamics
- 3:00pm – 3:20pm Lori Ziegelmeier, Macalester College
Using Topology to Measure Dynamics of Time-Varying Systems
- 3:30pm – 3:50pm Rachel Neville, Arizona State University
Topological Techniques for Characterization of Pattern Forming Systems
- 4:00pm – 4:20pm Brittany Fasy, Montana State University
Local Persistent Homology-Based Distances between Nonplanar Road Networks
- 4:30pm – 4:50pm Erin Chambers, Saint Louis University