Research in Computational Topology

Erin Chambers is an Associate Professor at Saint Louis University.Brittany Terese Fasy is an Assistant Professor and Gianforte Faculty Fellow at Montana State University.Lori Ziegelmeier is an Assistant Professor at Macalester College.

Preface.- The Rank Invariant Stability via Interleavings (Claudia Landi).- Persistent Homology Over Directed Acyclic Graphs (Erin Wolf Chambers and David Letscher).- A Complete Characterization of the 1-Dimensional Intrinsic Cech Persistence Diagrams for Metric Graphs (Ellen Gasparovic, Maria Gommel, et al).- Comparing Directed and Weighted Road Maps (Alyson Bittner, Brittany Terese Fasy, et al).- Sweeping Costs of Planar Domains (Brooks Adams, Henry Adams, and Colin Roberts).- Scaffoldings and Spines: Organizing High-Dimensional Data Using Cover Trees, Local Principal Component Analysis, and Persistent Homology (Paul Bendich, Ellen Gasparovic, et al).- Density of local maxima of the distance function to a set of points in the plane (Nina Amenta, Erin Chambers, et al).- Mind the Gap: A Study in Global Development through Persistent Homology (Andrew Banman and Lori Ziegelmeier).- Cluster Identification via Persistent Homology and other Clustering Techniques, with Application to Liver Transplant Data (Berhanu A. Wubie, Axel Andres, et al).- Pseudo-multidimensional persistence and its applications (Catalina Betancourt, Mathieu Chalifour, et al).