7th McGill - INRIA Workshop on Computational Geometry in Computer Graphics

Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University
26 January to 1 February 2008

Previous workshops

List of Participants

  • Muhammad Abubakr, McGill Univsersity
  • Helmut Alt, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Nina Amenta, University of California, Davis
  • Dominique Attali, CNRS, Gipsa-Lab, Grenoble
  • David Bremner, University of New Brunswick
  • Eric Colin de Verdiere, CNRS, ENS Paris
  • Olivier Devillers, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
  • Hazel Everett, LORIA, Nancy
  • Marc Glisse, CNRS, Gipsa-lab, Grenoble
  • Samuel Hornus, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
  • Christian Knauer, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Sylvain Lazard, LORIA, Nancy
  • Francis Lazarus, CNRS, Gipsa-lab, Grenoble
  • Jon Lenchner, IBM, USA
  • Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia
  • Dimitriy Morozov, Duke University
  • Christophe Paul, LIRMM
  • Luis Penaranda, LORIA, Nancy
  • Marc Pouget, LORIA, Nancy
  • Raimund Seidel, Universität des Saarlandes
  • Svetlana Stolpner, McGill University
  • Sue Whitesides, McGill University
  • Steven Wismath, University of Lethbridge

Talks

Introduction to Topology, Abubakar Muhammad
Introduction to Persistent Homology, Dimitriy Morozov
Homology for High Dimensional Point Clouds, Nina Amenta
Graph Decomposition, Christophe Paul
Persistance - an Alternative View, Francis Lazarus

Background reading

Muhammad Abubakr is suggesting the following :

For light reading (survey article)
BARCODES: THE PERSISTENT TOOLOGY OF DATA by ROBERT GHRIST

From a machine learing perspective (important contribution)
Finding the Homology of Submanifolds with High Confidence from Random Samples by P. Niyogi, S. Smale, S.Weinberger

For basics of homology theory and details on the persistence algorithm (tutorial value)
Computing Persistent Homology by Afra Zomorodian and Gunnar Carlsson

and Dmitriy Morozov suggests the following :

Persistent Homology - a Survey by Herbert Edelsbrunner and John Harer

Practical Information

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