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Applied Topology Seminar

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 3:00pm

Michael Robinson

American University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 3C4

Complex predictive models are notoriously hard to construct and to study. Without referring to the models directly -- only that a model consists of spaces and maps between them -- complex models can be assembled from smaller, easier-to-construct models. This talk will explain how a disciplined, diagrammatic process encodes continuous dynamical systems, partial differential equations, probabilistic graphical models, and discrete approximations of these models. Once encoded, a number of novel and powerful techniques are available; this talk will showcase several promising candidates.