John Harer, Professor

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

Teaching (Fall 2008):

Education:

PhDUniversity of California, Berkeley1979
BSHaverford College1974
Specialties:

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  

Postdocs Mentored

Recent Publications

  1. P. Bendich, D. Cohen-Steiner, H. Edelsbrunner, J. Harer and D. Morozov, Inferring Local Homology from Sampled Stratified Spaces, Foundations of Computational Science (Accepted, 2007)
  2. D. Cohen-Steiner, H. Edelsbrunner, J . Harer, and Yuriy Mileyko, Lipschitz functions have Lp-stable persistence, Foundations of Computational Mathematics (Submitted, 2007)  [abs]
  3. D. Cohen-Steiner, H. Edelsbrunner, J. Harer and D. Morozov, Persistent Homology for Kernels and Images, Society of Computational Geometry (Submitted, 2007)  [abs]
  4. P. Bendich and J. Harer, Elevation for singular spaces using persistent intersection homology (Preprint, 2007)
  5. D. Cohen-Steiner, H. Edelsbrunner and J. Harer., Stability of persistence diagrams., Discrete Comput. Geom., vol. 37 (2007), pp. 103-120  [abs] [author's comments]
Recent Grant Support