Research Interests for John Harer

Research Interests: Computational Topology, Computational Geometry, 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. 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]