Persistent Seminar

Seminar

Michael Bleher, Freya Jensen
Heidelberg University

Coordinates

  • Time: Wednesdays 14:00–16:00 (biweekly)
  • Location: Mathematikon SR 00.200
  • Organisers: Michael Bleher, Freya Jensen

Schedule

Date Topic Speaker
14 May 2025 Spectral Sequences and where to find them Freya Jensen
28 May 2025 Harmonic Persistent Homology Michael Bleher
11 Jun 2025 Session reserved (topic tbd)  
25 Jun 2025 No meeting (Michael not in Heidelberg)  
02 Jul 2025 Vector Bundle Methods for Data Science Jonas Cassel
09 Jul 2025 No meeting (Michael not in Heidelberg)  
16 Jul 2025 Persistent homology in natural language processing Conrad Werner
23 Jul 2025 No seminar (STRUCTURES summer party)  
30 Jul 2025 PersiST — cancelled Nikolai Köhler
Summer break    

Topics

  • Extended Persistent Homology (suited for beginners)​ D. Cohen-Steiner, H. Edelsbrunner, J. Harer, Extending persistence using Poincaré and Lefschetz duality, Foundations of Computational Mathematics 9, 79 (2009). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10208-008-9027-z
  • Hickok, A. (2023) ‘Persistence Diagram Bundles: A Multidimensional Generalization of Vineyards’. https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05124
  • Goubault, E. (2024) ‘Directed Homology and Persistence Modules’. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07095
  • Boyle, J. (2025) ‘PersiST: Robust Identification of Spatially Variable Features in Spatial Omics Datasets via Topological Data Analysis.’ https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04360 …