Shmuel Weinberger, PhD, will deliver the talk titled "Some Topological Aspects of Time Series" as part of the Program for Mathematical Genomics Seminar series. Dr. Weinberger is the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago.

About the lecture:

So much of our modern technology depends on the analysis of time series, and signal processing/harmonic analysis provide an advanced methodology for dealing with precisely timed numerical series. However, cycles that arise in biology and economics, do not seem to be so well clocked, and the combination of this with noise presents new challenges. I will try to explain some simple topological ideas motivated by these questions, and that are hopefully not completely useless.