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Oct
16
Fri
Data Science seminar
Oct 16 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join the Hawai‘i Data Science Institute for another Data Science Friday seminar titled “Bayesian Topological Learning for Complex Data Analysis” presented by Assistant Professor of Mathematics Dr. Farzana Nasir on October 16, 2020 at 2 pm on Zoom.

Please find more information below and on the attached flyer.

Zoom registration: http://go.hawaii.edu/39f

Abstract: Persistent homology is a tool in topological data analysis for learning about the geometrical/topological structures in data by detecting different dimensional holes and summarizing their appearance disappearance scales in persistence diagrams. However, quantifying the uncertainty present in these summaries is challenging. In this talk, I will present a Bayesian framework for persistent homology by relying on the theory of point
processes. This Bayesian model provides an effective, flexible, and noise-resilient scheme to analyze and classify complex datasets. A closed form of the posterior distribution of persistence diagrams based on a family of conjugate priors will be provided. The goal is to introduce a
supervised machine learning algorithm using Bayes factors on the space of persistence diagrams. This framework is applicable to a wide variety of datasets. I will present an application to filament networks data classification of plant cells.

Bio: Farzana Nasrin graduated from Texas Tech University with a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in August 2018. Her research interests span algebraic topology, differential geometry, statistics, and machine learning. Currently, she is holding an assistant professor position at UH Manoa in the Department of Mathematics. Before coming to UHM, she was working as a postdoctoral research associate funded by the ARO in mathematical data science at UTK. She has been working on building novel learning tools that rely on the shape peculiarities of data with application to biology, materials science, neuroscience, and ophthalmology. Her dissertation involves the development of analytical tools for smooth shape reconstruction from noisy data and visualization tools for utilizing information from advanced imaging devices.

Oct
20
Tue
Alexandra Soskova (Sofia University)
Oct 20 @ 4:00 am – 5:00 am

Title: Effective embeddings and interpretations
by Alexandra Soskova (Sofia University) as part of Computability theory and applications

Abstract
Friedman and Stanley introduced Borel embeddings as a way of comparing classification problems for different classes of structures. Many Borel embeddings are actually Turing computable. The effective decoding is given by a uniform effective interpretation. Part of the effective interpretation is actually Medvedev reduction.
The class of undirected graphs and the class of linear orderings both lie on top under Turing computable embeddings. We give examples of graphs that are not Medvedev reducible to any linear ordering, or to the jump of any linear ordering. For any graph, there is a linear ordering, that the graph is Medvedev reducible to the second jump of the linear ordering. Friedman and Stanley gave a Turing computable embedding $L$ of directed graphs in linear orderings. We show that there do not exist $L_{omega_1omega}$-formulas that uniformly interpret the input graph $G$ in the output linear ordering $L(G)$. This is joint work with Knight, and Vatev.

We have also one positive result — we prove that the class of fields is uniformly effectively interpreted without parameters in the class of Heisenberg groups.
The second part is joint work with Alvir, Calvert, Goodman, Harizanov, Knight, Miller, Morozov, and Weisshaar.

Break (University of Hawaiʻi) @ Lecture held in Elysium
Oct 20 @ 6:00 am – 8:00 am

Title: Topological Groups Seminar Two-Week Hiatus
by Break (University of Hawaiʻi) as part of Topological Groups

Lecture held in Elysium.
Abstract: TBA

Oct
27
Tue
Wayne Lewis (University of Hawaiʻi) @ Lecture held in Elysium
Oct 27 @ 6:00 am – 8:00 am

Title: Abelian Varieties as Algebraic Protori?
by Wayne Lewis (University of Hawaiʻi) as part of Topological Groups

Lecture held in Elysium.

Abstract
An outcome of the structure theory of protori (compact connected abelian groups) is their representability as quotients of $mathbb{A}^n$ for the ring of adeles $mathbb{A}$. $mathbb{A}$ does not contain zeros of rational polynomials, but rather representations of zeros. Investigating the relations between algebraicity of complex tori and algebraicity of protori leads one to the problem of computing the Pontryagin dual of $mathbb{A}/mathbb{Z}$. Applying an approach by Lenstra in the setting of profinite integers to the more general $mathbb{A}$ leads to a definition of the closed maximal $Lenstra$ $ideal$ $E$ of $mathbb{A}$, whence the locally compact field of $adelic$ $numbers$ $mathbb{F}=mathbb{A}/E$, providing a long-sought connection to $mathbb{C}$ enabling one to define a functor from the category of complex tori to the category of protori – is it possible to do so in a way that preserves algebraicity? While $mathbb{F}$ marks tentative progress, much work remains…

Li Ling Ko (University of Notre Dame)
Oct 27 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Title: Fickleness and bounding lattices in the recursively enumerable Turing degrees
by Li Ling Ko (University of Notre Dame) as part of Computability theory and applications

Abstract
The ability for a recursively enumerable Turing degree $d$ to bound certain
important lattices depends on the degree’s fickleness. For instance, $d$
bounds $L_7$ (1-3-1) if and only if $d$’s fickleness is $>omega$
($geqomega^omega$). We work towards finding a lattice that characterizes
the $>omega^2$ levels of fickleness and seek to understand the challenges
faced in finding such a lattice. The candidate lattices considered include
those that are generated from three independent points, and upper
semilattices that are obtained by removing the meets from important
lattices.

Nov
3
Tue
Election Day
Nov 3 all-day
Manlio Valenti (Università di Udine)
Nov 3 @ 4:00 am – 5:00 am

Title: On the descriptive complexity of Fourier dimension and Salem sets
by Manlio Valenti (Università di Udine) as part of Computability theory and applications

Abstract
It is known that, for Borel sets, the Fourier dimension is less than or equal to the Hausdorff dimension. The sets for which the two notions agree are called Salem sets.

In this talk, we explore the descriptive complexity of the family of closed Salem subsets of the Euclidean space. We also show how these results yield a characterization of the Weihrauch degree of the maps computing the Hausdorff or the Fourier dimensions.

Wayne Lewis (University of Hawaiʻi) @ Lecture held in Elysium
Nov 3 @ 6:00 am – 8:00 am

Title: Accounting with $mathbb{QP}^infty$
by Wayne Lewis (University of Hawaiʻi) as part of Topological Groups

Lecture held in Elysium.

Abstract
Rational projective space provides a useful accounting tool in engineering decompositions of $mathbb{Q}[x]$ for desired effect. The device is useful for defining a correspondence between summands of such a decomposition and elements of a partition of $mathbb{A}$. This mechanism is applied to a decomposition of $mathbb{Q}[x]$ relative to which the correspondence gives the $Lenstra$ $ideal$ $E$, a closed maximal ideal yielding the $adelic$ $numbers$ $mathbb{F}=frac{mathbb{A}}{E}$.