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| John Harer, Professor of Mathematics and Director of Csem
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | 207 Physics | | Office Phone: | (919) 660-2845 | | Email Address: |   | Teaching (Fall 2013):
- MATH 412.01, TOPOLOGY WITH APPLICATIONS
Synopsis
- Physics 235, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- (also cross-listed as COMPSCI 434.01)
- Education:
| PhD | University of California, Berkeley | 1979 |
| BS | Haverford College | 1974 |
- Specialties:
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Topology
Geometry
Applied Math
- Research Interests: Computational Topology, Computational Geometry, Computational Biology, Algorithms
Current projects:
Systems Biology, Computational Topology, Statistical Topology, Self-Healing Networks, Network Inference Professor Harer's primary research is in the use of geometric, combinatorial and computational techniques to study a variety of problems in shape recognition, image segmentation, protein structure, root architecture and systems biology.
- Areas of Interest:
- Computational Biology
Computational Topology
Networks
Algorithms
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Michael Casey
- Elizabeth A Munch
- Anastasia Deckhard
- Postdocs Mentored
- Omer Bobrowski (2012/11-present)
- Joshua Vogelstein (2012/11-present)
- Jurgen Sladeczek (2011 - present)
- Jose Peres (2011/12-present)
- Kevin McGoff (2011/12-present)
- Nate Strawn (2011/12-present)
- Paul Bendich (January 01, 2011 - present)
- Chris Topp (2009 - 2011)
- Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi (2007 - 2011)
- Yuriy Mileyko (2008 - 2011)
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Katherine Turner, Yuriy Mileyko, Sayan Mukherjee and John Hare, Fréchet Means for Distributions of Persistence diagrams,
arXiv:1206.2790 [math.ST]
(Preprint, 2012) [abs]
- T. Galkovskyi, Y. Mileyko, A. Bucksch, B. Moore, O. Symonova, C. Price, C. Topp, A. Iyer-Pascuzzi, P. Zurek, S. Fang, J. Harer, P. Benfey and J. Weitz, GiA Roots: software for the high throughput analysis of plant root system architecture,
BMC Plant Biology, vol. 12 no. 116
(2012) [abs]
- Christopher N Topp, Anjali S Iyer-Pascuzzi, Jill T Anderson, Cheng-Ruei Lee, Paul R Zurek, Olga Symonova, Ying Zheng, Alexander Bucksch, Yuriy Milyeko, Taras Galkovskyi, Brad Moore, John Harer, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Thomas Mitchell Olds, Joshua S Weitz, Philip N Benfey, 3-dimensional phenotyping of growing root systems combined with QTL mapping identifies core regions of the rice genome controlling root architecture,
Nature Biotechnology
(Submitted, 2012)
- Anastasia Deckard, Ron C. Anafi, John B. Hogenesch, Steven B. Haase, John Harer, Design and Analysis of Large-Scale Biological Rhythm Studies: A Comparison of Algorithms for Detecting Periodic Signals in Biological Data,
PLOS Computational Biology
(Submitted, 2012) [abs]
- Anastasia Deckard, Jurgen Sladeczek, David A. Orlando, Steven B. Haase and John Harer, Biochronicity Website: Sharing the results of running periodicity detection algorithms on biological data
(Submitted, 2012) [abs]
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