Curvature and Data
Visiting speaker
Jürgen Jost
Director, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Past Talk
In-person
Thursday
Oct 3, 2024
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2:00 pm
EST
Virtual
177 Huntington Ave.
11th floor
11th floor
Devon House
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK
Many data are metric, that is, with distances between data points. Therefore, metric geometry should provide tools for their analysis. Since the most important concept of geometry is curvature, many curvature concepts have been proposed and developed in metric geometry. I will explain those concepts systematically and show how they can yield insight into data from a wide range of domains.
About the speaker
About the speaker
Jürgen Jost is a Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI-MiS) in Leipzig, Germany, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, USA. He was born in Münster, Germany, in 1956. He studied mathematics, physics, economics and philosophy at the University of Bonn from 1975 to 1980, and in 1980 he also completed his PhD in mathematics at the same university. He has held various postdoctoral and visiting positions at IAS Princeton, UC San Diego, ANU Canberra, MSRI Berkeley, Harvard, ETH Zürich and IHES Paris. From 1984 to 1996 he was Professor of Mathematics at the Ruhr University Bochum, and in 1996 he moved to Leipzig, where together with Eberhard Zeidler and Stefan Müller, he founded the MPI-MiS. To date, Jürgen Jost has written more than 600 research articles and more than 20 books, spanning many different areas of mathematics and applied sciences, as well as philosophy and history of science. He has supervised more than 60 PhD students and numerous postdocs.
Jürgen Jost is a Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI-MiS) in Leipzig, Germany, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, USA. He was born in Münster, Germany, in 1956. He studied mathematics, physics, economics and philosophy at the University of Bonn from 1975 to 1980, and in 1980 he also completed his PhD in mathematics at the same university. He has held various postdoctoral and visiting positions at IAS Princeton, UC San Diego, ANU Canberra, MSRI Berkeley, Harvard, ETH Zürich and IHES Paris. From 1984 to 1996 he was Professor of Mathematics at the Ruhr University Bochum, and in 1996 he moved to Leipzig, where together with Eberhard Zeidler and Stefan Müller, he founded the MPI-MiS. To date, Jürgen Jost has written more than 600 research articles and more than 20 books, spanning many different areas of mathematics and applied sciences, as well as philosophy and history of science. He has supervised more than 60 PhD students and numerous postdocs.
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