John Harer, Professor

John Harer
Office Location:  207 Physics
Office Phone:  (919) 660-2845
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Fall 2009):

Teaching (Spring 2010):

Education:

PhDUniversity of California, Berkeley1979
BSHaverford College1974
Specialties:

Topology
Geometry
Applied Math
Research Interests: Computational Topology, 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, plant root architecture, biological networks and gene expression.

Areas of Interest:

Computational Biology
Computational Topology
Algorithms

Current Ph.D. Students  

Postdocs Mentored

Recent Publications

  1. D. Cohen-Steiner, H. Edelsbrunner, J. Harer and D. Morozov., Persistent homology for kernels, images, and cokernels., Proc. Sympos. Discret Alg. (Accepted, 2009) [available here]  [abs]
  2. P. Bendich, J. Harer and H. King, Persistent Intersection Homology (Preprint, 2008)
  3. Mehak Aziz, Siobhan M. Brady, David Orlando, Appu Kuruvilla, Scott Spillias, José R. Dinneny, Terri A. Long, John Harer, Uwe Ohler, Philip N. Benfey, Gene Expression Clustering Analysis: How to Choose the Best Parameters and Clustering Algorithm (Preprint, 2008)  [abs]
  4. A. HB and J. Harer, Persistent Steifel Whitney Classes (Preprint, 2008)  [abs]
  5. D. Cohen-Steiner, H. Edelsbrunner, J. Harer and Y. Mileyko., Lipschitz functions have L_p-stable persistence., Foundations of Computional Mathematics (Accepted, 2008) [available here]  [abs]
Recent Grant Support