John Harer, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

John Harer
Office Location:  207 Physics
Office Phone:  (919) 660-2845
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://cms.math.duke.edu/harer/?q=home

Teaching (Fall 2012):

Office Hours:

Tuesday, Thursday, 9:45-10:45
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, Statistical Topology, Self-Healing Networks, Network Inference, 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 data analysis, shape recognition, image segmentation, plant root architecture, biological networks and gene expression.

Areas of Interest:

Computational Biology
Computational Topology
Dynamics on Networks
Algorithms

Current Ph.D. Students  

Postdocs Mentored

Recent Publications

  1. 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]
  2. 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]
  3. with Paul Bendich, Taras Galkovskyi, Improving Homology Estimates with Random Walks, Journal of Inverse Problems, vol. 27 no. 12 (2011), pp. 16  [abs]
  4. with Elizabeth Munch, Michael Shapiro, Failure Filtrations for Fenced Sensor Networks, The International Journal of Robotics Research (Submitted, 2011), pp. 14  [abs]
  5. 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)
Recent Grant Support