Andrew J. Blumberg, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
10 – 11AM
Friday Oct 27, 2017
POB 6.304
Abstract
This talk will give a gentle overview of recent efforts to apply the methods of algebraic topology to the problem of obtaining qualitative geometric information
from data.
Bio:
Dr. Blumberg received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2005, under the supervision of Peter May and Mike Mandell. He was then a
postdoc at Stanford with Ralph Cohen and Gunnar Carlsson, and he has been here at UT Austin ever since.