All students are invited to attend the Math Dept colloquium on Wednesdays at 3-4 in MH 320.  There are usually refreshments preceding the talk in MH 331B.  The talks are designed to be understandable to upper division math majors.   Here is this week’s colloquium announcement.

The Math/Stats Colloquium is very pleased to present Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford) on “The shape of data”.  “Big data” is a term describing the many aspects (e.g., storage, query capability, analysis) of the problem of how to make most
effective use of the enormous amounts of data currently being gathered.  This talk will describe, and give numerous
examples of, a collection of recently developed methods for the analysis of large, high dimensional, and most
importantly, complex data sets.  These methods use the mathematical notion of shape, as encoded in topological
methods, as a new tool in data analysis.

Background: One semester linear algebra. No prior knowledge of topology will be assumed.

Date: Wed Sep 10 Time and place: 3-3:50pm, MH320
** Talk starts promptly at 3pm **   (Snacks 2:30pm in MH331B)

Hope to see you there!

Upcoming events:

* Wed Sep 17: Thomas Church, Stanford
TBA

* Wed Sep 24: NO COLLOQUIUM (department meeting)

* Wed Oct 01: Elizabeth Gross, SJSU
TBA