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John Harer, Professor of Mathematics and Director of Csem
| Office Location: | 207 Physics |
| Office Phone: | (919) 660-2845 |
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Teaching (Fall 2012):
- MATH 323S.01, GEOMETRY
Synopsis
- Physics 205, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- CBB 510S.01, COMP BIO SEMINAR
Synopsis
- TBA, M 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
- MATH 573S.01, MODELING BIO SYSTEMS
Synopsis
- TBA, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- 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, Geometric Image Analysis
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
Algorithms
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Elizabeth A. Munch
- Anastasia Deckhard
- Postdocs Mentored
- Jose Peres (2011-2014)
- Kevin McGoff (2011/12-present)
- Nate Strawn (2011/12-present)
- Paul Bendich (January 01, 2011 - present)
- Chris Topp (2009 - present)
- Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi (2007 - present)
- Yuriy Mileyko (2008 - 2011)
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- with Taras Galkovskyi, Yuriy Mileyko, Alexander Bucksch, Brad Moore, Olga Symonova, Charles A Price, Christopher Topp, Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, Paul Zurek, Suqin Fang, Philip N Benfey, and Joshua S Weitz, GiA Roots: Software for the High Throughput Analysis of Plant Root System Images, BMC Plant Biology (Submitted, 2011) [abs]
- with Yuriy Mileyko, Sayan Mukherjee, Probability measures on the space of persistence diagrams, Journal of Inverse Problems, vol. 27 no. 12 (2011), pp. 25 [abs] [author's comments]
- with Paul Bendich, Taras Galkovskyi, Improving Homology Estimates with Random Walks, Journal of Inverse Problems, vol. 27 no. 12 (2011), pp. 16 [abs]
- with Elizabeth Munch, Michael Shapiro, Failure Filtrations for Fenced Sensor Networks, The International Journal of Robotics Research (Submitted, 2011), pp. 14 [abs]
- with Anjali S. Iyer-Pascuzzi, Christopher N. Topp, Jill T. Anderson, Cheng-Ruei Lee, Olga Symonova, Yuriy Mileyko, Taras Galkovsky, Ying Zheng, Randy Clark, Leon Kochian, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Joshua S. Weitz, Thomas Mitchell-Olds and Philip N. Benfey, Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Root System Architecture in Rice Plant and Animal Genomes, XX Genome Conference (2011)