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Applied Topology Seminar

Monday, October 5, 2015 - 2:00pm

Sara Kalisnik Vervosek

Stanford University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4E19

Note new room for this semester!

An important problem with sensor networks is that they do not provide information about the regions that are not covered by their sensors. If the sensors in a network are static, then the Alexander Duality Theorem from classic algebraic topology is sufficient to determine the coverage of a network. However, in many networks the nodes change position over time. In the case of dynamic sensor networks, we consider the covered and uncovered regions as parametrized spaces with respect to time. I will discuss parametrized homology, a variant of zigzag persistent homology, which measures how the homology of the level sets of a space changes as the parameter varies. I will show also how we can extend the Alexander Duality theorem to the setting of parametrized homology.