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Schedule
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All days start with coffee at 8:30am and talks at 9am. Most days end at 5:30pm. We will end the official part of the workshop at 12:30pm on Friday, but participants are encouraged to stay Friday afternoon to work on software development and/or collaborate on analyzing data sets after lunch on Friday.

Lunch will be on your own. There are many restaurants within walking distance.

Note: All times are in Central Time (CDT = UTC -5)

Location: SH 40
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Click here for map from Graduate Hotel to Schaeffer Hall

Tutorial talks
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Monday June 9
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8:30am Coffee
9:00am Robert DeYeso III, University of Tennessee at Martin and Ethan Rooke, University of Iowa, Introduction to TDA mapper
9:30am James Traer, University of Iowa, Topological structures in the brain and where to look for them
10:15am Coffee Break
10:45am George Clare Kennedy, Jacob Miller, Paria Karimi Kousalari, Mona Hardani, University of Iowa, Mapper implementations
11:30am Software Demo
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Ishika Ghosh, Michigan State UniversityApproximating Interleaving Distance Between Mapper Graphs via Loss Optimization
3:00pm Halley Fritze, University of Oregon, Multiscale 2-Mapper: Exploratory Data Analysis through the first betti number
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30pm Halley Fritze, University of Oregon, Software Demo
5:30pm End of day 1

Tuesday June 10
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8:30am Coffee
9:00am Fatemeh Shanehsazan, University of Iowa, Filtration of Simplicial Complexes and Their Application to Mapper Graphs
9:30am Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University, (zoom)    The Shape of Relations: From Knot Invariants to Cancer Genomics
10:30am Coffee Break
11:00am Jacob Miller, University of Iowa, Zen Sight: An Introduction
11:30am Mingzhe Li, University of Utah, Comparing and Tracking Topological Structures via Optimal Transport
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Jonathan Victor, Geometric analysis of perceptual spaces, (zoom)
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30pm Gregory Henselman-Petrusek Roek, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Open Applied Topology (zoom)   Open Applied Topology: A fast, flexible, user-friendly tool for manifold learning in TDA
5:30pm End of day 2

Wednesday June 11
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8:30am Coffee
9:00am Lori Ziegelmeier, Macalester College, Minimal Cycle Representatives in Persistent Homology using Linear Programming,
10:00am Coffee Break
10:30am software to find optimal cycle reps.
11:30am Bei Wang Phillips, University of Utah, (zoom) Augmenting Lossy Compressors with Topological Guarantees
12:30pm Lunch + Excursion

Thursday June 12
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8:30am Coffee
9:00am Brad Theilman, Sandia National Laboratories, Decomposing spiking neural networks with Graphical Neural Activity Threads
10:00am Brad Theilman, Sandia National Laboratories, Tutorial Part 1
11:00am Coffee Break
11:30am Brad Theilman, Sandia National Laboratories, Tutorial Part 2
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Enrique G Alvarado, Iowa State University, Wild Mappers
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30pm Lin Yan, Iowa State University, Topology-Based Visualization Techniques for Scientific Data Exploration
4:30pm Discussion
5:30pm End of day 4

Friday June 13
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8:30am Coffee
9:00am George Clare Kennedy, University of Iowa,Using Mapper to Visualize Aptamer Binding Affinities
10:00am Coffee Break
10:30am Manish Saggar, Stanford University (zoom) Beyond the Average: Using TDA-Based Mapper to Reveal the Hidden Shape of fMRI Data
11:30am Discussion
12:30pm End of official workshop
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm – ?? Software development/Collaboration time
7:30pm Optional: Shakespeare in the Park: Romeo & Juliet (free)
9:00pm Optional: Public Observing Night - Van Allen Observatory (free, 9 - 11pm)