Course: STAT 37411=CAAM 37411
Title: Topological Data Analysis
Instructor(s): Bradley Nelson
Class Schedule: Sec 1: MW 10:30 AM–11:50 PM in Jones 226
Textbook(s): Oudot, Persistence Theory: From Quiver Representations to Data Analysis; Edelsbrunner and Harer, Computational Topology: An Introduction; Ghist, Elementary Applied Topology
Description: Topological data analysis seeks to understand and exploit topology when exploring and learning from data. This course surveys core ideas and recent developments in the field and will prepare students to use topology in data analysis tasks. The core of the course will include computation with topological spaces, the mapper algorithm, and persistent homology, and cover theoretical results, algorithms, and a variety of applications. Additional topics from algebraic topology, metric geometry, category theory, and quiver representation theory will be developed from applied and computational perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): Linear algebra, prior programming experience, exposure to graph theory/algorithms.
