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John Harer

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Department of Mathematics
Physics Building
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708 		(919)-660-2845 (office)
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Education

PhDUniversity of California, Berkeley1979
BSHaverford College1974
Areas of Research

Computational Topology, Computational Geometry, Computational Biology, Algorithms

Areas of Interest

Computational Biology
Computational Topology
Algorithms

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Director, Center for Computational Science, Engineering and Medicine, , 2002 - 2007
Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, 2001 - present
Secondary Appointment
Vice-Provost for Acdemic Affairs, , July 01, 1999 - December 31, 2004
Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, 1993 - present
Washington and Lee University
Professor and Chair, Mathematics, 1991 - 1992
University of Michigan
Professor, Mathematics, 1989 - 1991
Associate Professor, Mathematics, 1985 - 1989
University of Maryland
Assistant Professor, Mathematics, 1983 - 1985
Columbia University
Ritt Assistant Professor, Mathematics, 1979 - 1983
Visiting Positions
Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore, 1997 - 1998
Professor, Duke University, 1992 - 1993
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Henry Russell Award, University of Michigan, July, 1988
Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan, July, 1987
Fellowship, Sloane Foundation, July, 1987
Postdoctoral Fellowship, NSF, July, 1983
Recent Grant Support

  • Duke Center for Systems Biology, NIH, 2007/07-2012/06.      
  • Data Acquisition, Processing and Modeling of Morphogenesis in 4D, NSF, 0714796, 2006/07-2012/06.      
  • Topological Methods for the Analysis of High-dimensional Data Sets and 3D Object Recognition, DARPA, 2005/01-2008/12.      
  • STTR Phase I: Representation and Visualization of Plant Genotypic, Phenotypic,and Environmental Relationships, NSF IIP, 0637869, 2007/01-2007/12.      
  • Genomic Approaches to Identify Genes for Root System Architecture Traits, NSF DBI, 0606873, 2006/08-2007/07.      
  • Reference structure tomography for ubiquitous and efficient human tracking and identification, Army Research Office, 2003/09-2006/12.      
  • SBIR: Advanced Computer-Aided Inspection Research, NIST Advanced Technology Program, 2003/07-2006/06.      
Professional Service

A&S Council
Associate Director, Center for Systems Biology Steering Committee, 2006 - 2007  
University Committee
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology PhD Program Steering Committee, 2003 - present  
Computational Biology Section Proposal, December 2007  
AP&T, September 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007  
Departmental Computing Support, September, 2005 - May, 2006  
Chair, Strategic Planning for Research Computing, August, 2005 - May, 2006  
Chair, Task Force for Computation and Data Analysis in the Social Sciences, January 01, 2005 - July 01, 2005  
B&B Chair Search Committee, 1999 - July 01, 2005  
Research Committee, September, 2005 - May, 2005  
Academic Space Committee, 2003 - December 31, 2004  
Global Change Steering Committee, 2000 - December 31, 2004  
Member, Academic Priorities Committee, 1999 - December 31, 2004  
Provost's Inner Staff, 1999 - December 31, 2004  
Duke Forest Advisory Committee, 1999 - December 31, 2004  
Project Advisory Committee for French Science Center, 2003 - 2004  
Materials Science Governance Committee, 2000 - 2004  
Review Committee for Dean of Pratt School of Engineering, 2002 - 2003  
IGSP Director Search, 1999 - 2003  
IGSP Leadership Committee, July 01, 1999 - July 01, 2003  
Search Committee for Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, 2000 - 2001  
Chair, CBCB Director Search Committee, 2000 - 2001  
Strategic Planning Oversight Committee, 1999 - 2001  
Chair, Science and Engineering Working Group, 1999 - 2001  
Dept Committee
Appointments Committee, 1993 - present  
Mathematical Biology Search Commitee, 2004 - 2005  
Papers Refereed
Refereed numerous papers, 1993 - present  
NSF Reviews And Panels
Participant, NSF Workshop in Mathematics and Robotics, 2000  
Univ Services
SAMSI Scienctific Advisory Committee, 2004 - present  
Director, Center for Computational Science, Engineering and Medicine, 2001 - 2007  
Search Committee for A&S IT director, December 2005  
Board Member, NISS Board of Trustees, 2002 - 2005  
Reviewer for Research Day, March 30, 2005  
Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs, Provost's Office:, July 01, 1999 - February 28, 2005  
TUCASI, July 1, 1999 - January 01, 2005  
Member, SAMSII Board of Govenors, 2003 - December 31, 2004  
Chief Staff, Academic Affairs Committee - Duke Board of Trustees, July 01, 1999 - December 31, 2004  
Chair, DFELL Advisory Committee, 1999 - 2004  
Reviewer for Research Day, March, 2004  
Search Committee for Neural Analysis Faculty - BME, 2002  
Search Committee for Vice-Provost for Research, 2001  
Chair, Committee on Academic Practices and Policies, North Carolina School of Science and Math Board of Trustees, 1999 - 2001  
Strategic Planning Process Coordinator, 1999 - 2001  
Selected Recent Invited Talks

Persistent Homology for root shape description, DARPA TDA meeting - San Diego, December, 2007  
Topology and Biology, DARPA FunBio meeting - San Diego, December, 2007  
Topological Persistence, Rutgers University, November, 2006  
Persistence for Image Analysis, MSRI, October, 2006  
Extended Persistence with Applications, MSRI, September, 2006  
Discovering Stratified Structures in Datasets, DARPA meeting - Santa Barbara, May, 2006  
Discovering stratified structure using local homology, DARPA meeting, Duke University, December 15, 2005  
Using flattening for surface comparison, NIST site review, Geomagic, RTP, November 29, 2005  
Extended Persistence and Intersection Homology, DARPA meeting, San Raphael, California, October 30, 2005  
2004 IMA New Directions Short Course in Computational Topology, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, July 6-16, 2004 [available here]  
Extreme elevation on a 2-manifold, ACM Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, SCG 2004, 15 December 2004 [htm]  
Time-varying Contour Trees for Continuous Space-Time Data, ACM Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, SCG 2004, 15 December 2004 [htm]  
HPRM: A Hierarchical PRM, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003 [available here]  
Loops in Reeb Graphs of 2-Manifolds, 19th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2003 [html]  
Morse Complexes for Piecewise Linear 3-Manifolds, 19th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2003  
Workshop on Computaional Topology, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Oct 21-25, 2002 [available here]  
Combinatorial Morse Theory and Persistence, with Applications to Distinguishing Noise from Feature, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Feb, 2001 [html]  
Conference on Algebraic Topological Methods in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2001 [html]  
Minimal Trap Design, ICRA 2001 , Seoul, 2001  
Doctoral Theses Directed

Anne Collins, Configuration Spaces in Robotic Manipulation and Motion Planning, (2002)  
Chris Odden, (1997)  
Joel Foisy, (1996)  
Publications (listed separately)
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