Course Schedule and Office Hours

The course schedule is maintained below. Note that this schedule is subject to change during the semester, so check back often!

Course Schedule

Date	Lec.	Topic (Planned)	Reading	Notes	HW Presenter
T 8/26	1	Overview of course, Basic Topology Definitions	1.1, 1.2, 1.3		N/A
Th 8/28	2	Morse theory	1.4, 1.5		Sona
T 9/2	3	Simplicial complex basics	2.1		Dawson
Th 9/4	4	Complexes from point clouds	2.2, 2.3		Jared
T 9/9	5	Homology Part 1	2.4		Patience
Th 9/11	6	Homology Part 2	2.5		Ian
T 9/16	7	Python and homology	EH IV.2	Bring laptop, download files from here	Atoshi & Zhengrong
Th 9/18	8	Filtrations, Betti curves, Induced maps	2.5.1, 3.1		Ishika
T 9/23		No class		Watch an AATRN video and post about it on the slack channel
Th 9/25		No class
T 9/30	9	Filtrations & Persistence	3.1, EH VII.1		None
Th 10/2	10	Persistence algorithm	3.1, EH VII.1		Jannik
T 10/7	11	Persistence with Python			None
Th 10/9	12	Persistence of point clouds			Kevin, Patience, Nic
T 10/14	13	Bottleneck and Wasserstein Distance, Stability	FIX		Eugene
Th 10/16	14	ML and Persistence	13.1
T 10/21		No class, Fall break
Th 10/23	15	TDA-ML Pipelines in Python	13.1
T 10/28		Liz in Australia, No Class
Th 10/30		No class
T 11/4	16	PL functions and Reeb Graphs	3.1, 7.1
Th 11/6	17	Distances for Reeb graphs	My survey paper
T 11/11	18	Mapper - Theory	9.1/9.3
Th 11/13	19	Mapper - Practice
T 11/18	20	Directional Transform and the ECT
Th 11/20	21	ECT and PHT
T 11/25	22	Discrete Morse Theory
Th 11/27		No class - Thanksgiving
T 12/2	23	Multiparameter Persistence
Th 12/4	24	Merge Trees

Office hours

I will hold office hours by appointment. You can find a time that I am available at elizabethmunch.com/officehours.