- Series
- Research Horizons Seminar
- Time
- Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 1:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Dr. Gunnar Carlsson – Stanford University
- Organizer
- Robert Rahm
Please Note: Note: This is a special time for Research Horizons.
Special seminar title: The idea of studying the geometry and topology of
finite metric spaces has arisen due to the fact that almost all kinds of
data sets arising in science or the commercial world are equipped with a
metric. This has led to the development of cohomology theories applicable
to finite metric spaces, which allow one to construct "measurements" of the
shape of the data sets. We will define these theories and discuss their
properties. We will also describe their applications, and suggest
directions of future research on them.