Dr. Peter Bubenik (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Florida)

2/2/2023  3:10pm

Abstract:  In the twenties of the previous century, Marston Morse used critical points of real-valued functions to develop an important approach to topology now called Morse theory. I will introduce Morse theory and a modern computational descendant of it called topological data analysis and explore some of the connections between the two.