John Harer

John Harer
  • Professor of Mathematics
External address: 109 Physic Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Internal office address: Box 90320, Durham, NC 27708-0034
Phone: (919) 660-2845
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Research Areas and Keywords

Biological Modeling
Gene Regulatory Networks, Network Inference
Computational Mathematics
Topological Data Analysis, Geometric Data Analysis, Network Dynamics, Network Inference
Signals, Images & Data
Topological Data Analysis, Geometric Data Analysis
Topology
Topological Data 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, tracking, brain imaging, biological networks and gene expression.

Education & Training

  • Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley 1979

  • B.A., Haverford College 1974

Casson, A, and Harer, J. "Some homology lens spaces which bound rational homology balls." Pacific Journal of Mathematics 96.1 (September 1, 1981): 23-36. Full Text

Harer, J. "On handlebody structures for hypersurfaces in ℂ3 and ℂP3." Mathematische Annalen 238.1 (1978): 51-58. Full Text

Turner, K, Mileyko, Y, Mukherjee, S, and Harer, J. "Fréchet Means for Distributions of Persistence diagrams." Open Access Copy

Perea, J, and Harer, J. "Sliding Windows and Persistence: An Application of Topological Methods to Signal Analysis."

Bern, M, Eppstein, D, Agarwal, PK, Amenta, N, Chew, P, Dey, T, Dobkin, DP, Edelsbrunner, H, Grimm, C, Guibas, LJ, Harer, J, Hass, J, Hicks, A, Johnson, CK, Lerman, G, Letscher, D, Plassmann, P, Sedgwick, E, Snoeyink, J, Weeks, J, Yap, C, and Zorin, D. "Emerging Challenges in Computational Topology."

Munch, E, Shapiro, M, and Harer, J. "Failure Filtrations for Fenced Sensor Networks." Full Text

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Former Graduate Students

  • Anne Collins (01/2002 - 01/2006): Configuration Spaces in Robotic Manipulation and Motion Planning
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