CS 7870, Seminar in theoretical computer science — Topological methods for the analysis of data
Syllabus: pdf
Lectures:
Lecture 1 [01/06/2025] pdf: Intro to Topological Data Analysis
Lecture 2 [01/09/2025] pdf: Metric spaces and generalizations (extended, pseudo and distance)
Lecture 3 [01/13/2025] pdf: Metric topology: Open sets, closed sets and continuous functions
Lecture 4 [01/16/2025] pdf: Topological spaces, continuity, homeomorphisms, homotopies
Lecture 5 [01/23/2025] pdf: Homotopy equivalence, topological inference compactness
Lecture 6 [01/27/2025] pdf: The medial axis, the reach and homotopy inference of manifolds
Lecture 7 [01/30/2025] pdf: Simplicial complexes, the Rips, Nerve and Cech complexes
Lecture 8 [02/03/2025] pdf: Computing Rips and Cech complexes, Geometric realization, The nerve lemma