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Special Session 122: Topological Data Analysis Theory, Algorithms, and Applications Organizer(s): Firas Khasawneh

Parallel Session 5 :: Tuesday, 07/07, 16:30-19:00                                   Room 538                 
 16:30-17:00  Paul Schrader (Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), USA)
 Autonomous Applications of Topologically-Informed Data Driven Analytics & Fusion
 17:00-17:30  Sarah Tymochko (College of the Holy Cross, USA)
 Using Persistent Homology to Analyze Access to Heterogeneous-Quality Resources and Heterogeneous-Severity Nuisances
 17:30-18:00  Ryu Hayakawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
 Quantum computing and persistence in topological data analysis
 18:00-18:30  Davide Guzzetti (Auburn University, USA)
 The Shape of Orbits in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem: Opportunities for Topological Data Analysis
 18:30-19:00  Ling Zhou (Duke University, USA)
 Topological optimization with birth and death cochains

Parallel Session 6 :: Wednesday, 07/08, 8:00-10:00                                   Room 538                  
 8:00-8:30  Teresa Heiss-Synak (the Australian National University, Australia)
 New Method for Analyzing The Hole-Structure of a Crystal: Merge Tree for Periodic Data
 8:30-9:00  Henry KIrveslahti (Univerrsity of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
 Digitalizing the Euler Characteristic Transform
 9:00-9:30  Andrew Thomas (University of Iowa, USA)
 Nested sequential inference for hotspots in noisy images with cubical persistent homology
 9:30-10:00  Jonathan Jaquette (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
 Robustness of persistent homology when noising and denoising 3D images

Parallel Session 7 :: Wednesday, 07/08, 13:30-16:00                                   Room 538                  
 13:30-14:00  Enrico Amico (University of Birmingham, England)
 Higher-order connectomics of human brain function
 14:00-14:30  Chad Giusti (Oregon State University, USA)
 How do biological neural networks learn topologically structured data?
 14:30-15:00  Bernadette Stolz (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
 Topological model selection: a case-study in tumour-induced angiogenesis
 15:00-15:30  Iris Yoon (Wesleyan University, USA)
 Topological decoding of grid cell activity via path lifting to covering spaces
 15:30-16:00  Alexandria Volkening (Purdue University, USA)
 TDA-driven parameter inference in an agent-based model of zebrafish patterns

Parallel Session 8 :: Wednesday, 07/08, 16:30-18:00                                   Room 538                  
 16:30-17:00  Pawel Dlotko (Warsaw University, Poland)
 Dynamics meets topological data analysis
 17:00-17:30  Firas Khasawneh (Michigan State University, USA)
 Detecting Stochasticity in Discrete Signals via Persistent Homology
 17:30-18:00  Michael Small (University of Western Australia, Australia)
 Using topology to inform embedding

Parallel Session 9 :: Thursday, 07/09, 8:00-10:00                                   Room 538                 
 8:30-9:00  Woojin Kim (KAIST, Korea)
 Interleaving distance as a Galois-edit distance
 9:00-9:30  Fernando Galaz-Garcia (Durham University, England)
 Generalised Wasserstein Metrics on Persistence Diagrams via Banach Sequence Ideals
 9:30-10:00  Henry Adams (University of Florida, USA)
 Hausdorff vs Gromov-Hausdorff distances

Parallel Session 10 :: Thursday, 07/09, 13:30-16:00                                   Room 538                  
 13:30-14:00  Bastian Grossenbacher-Rieck (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
 Shapes, Spaces, Simplices, and Structure: Geometry, Topology, and Machine Learning
 14:00-14:30  Baris Coskunuzer (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
 TopoFormer: Topology Meets Attention for Graph Learning
 14:30-15:00  Farzana Nasrin (University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA)
 Learning Generative Models on Persistence Diagram Space via Policy-Induced Markov Processes
 15:00-15:30  James Murphy (Tufts University, USA)
 Balancing Geometry and Density with Fermat Metrics: Graphs, Clustering, and Applications

Parallel Session 11 :: Thursday, 07/09, 16:30-19:00                                   Room 538                  
 16:30-17:00  Halley Fritze (University of Michigan, USA)
 Probabilistic Statements for Mapper Graphs
 17:00-17:30  Robin Belton (Vassar College, USA)
 Studying 2-Parameter Persistent Homology via Directed Topology
 17:30-18:00  Elizabeth Munch (Michigan State University, USA)
 Building Canopies for the Decomposition of Persistence Bundles
 18:00-18:30  Atish J. Mitra (Montana Technological University, USA)
 The shadow of Vietoris-Rips complexes in limits
 18:30-19:00  Anastasios Stefanou (University of Bremen, Germany)
 Relative commutative algebra of multigraded modules