The underlying topology of data
OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS: MATH TABLE, SEMINARS: OPEN NEIGHBORHOOD
When: October 29, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Address:
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Speaker: Jose Perea (Northeastern University)
Topology is the branch of mathematics concerned with shapes and their spatial properties. This talk is about how several tools from classic algebraic topology – like cohomology, classifying spaces and vector bundles – can be used in machine learning tasks such as dimensionality reduction, time series analysis and data alignment. I will use a number of examples to illustrate real applications of these ideas.
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