Research Interests for John Harer

Research Interests: Computational Topology, Computational Biology, Algorithms

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.

Current projects:
Systems Biology
Computational Topology
Geometric Image Analysis
Areas of Interest:

Computational Biology
Computational Topology
Algorithms

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]