The shape of relations: knots and other stories

Abstract: Topological Data Analysis provides tools for discovering relevant features of data by analyzing the shape of a point cloud. In this context we develop tools for visualizing maps between high dimensional spaces with the goal of discovering relations between data sets with expected correlations. The main focus of this talk is knots and their invariants, but we will touch on other examples including applications to cancer genomics, game theory and materials science.

Mathematics

Audience: general audience

VCU Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series

Series comments: A series of public lectures in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Virginia Commonwealth University.

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