Institute for Mathematical Sciences Event Archive

Workshop on Geometry and Shape Analysis in Biological Sciences

(12 - 16 June 2017)

Venue: IMS Auditorium
Venue: Block S17, #04-06, Seminar Room 1, Department of Mathematics, NUS, 10 Lower Kent Ridge Road Singapore 119076 (14 Jun 2017, 4.30pm-5.30pm)
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Organizing Committee: Structural information on biological shapes can be obtained via a number of experimental techniques, including X-ray crystallography, NMR, and cryo-electron microscopy tomography for molecular systems, and multiple microscopy and scanning techniques for larger biological shapes, to name only a few. However, it is the geometric and topological modeling that interprets and translates the data generated by those techniques into a meaningful model of the structure-function relationship for those systems, allowing the geometric information to be integrated into physical models that shed new light on the mechanisms of life. The objective of this workshop is to stimulate interactions between the biologists that collect those data and the mathematicians that provide the geometric and topological modeling. Its program is designed to encourage biologists to outline problems and challenges in data collection and analysis, and mathematicians to describe new creative and efficient solutions to those challenges. The topics of the workshop are as follows:

Monday, 12 Jun 2017

09:00am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 09:45amOpening remarks: Patrice Koehl
09:45am - 10:45am

Shapes, radius functions, and persistent homology

(PDF, Video)



Herbert Edelsbrunner
IST Austria, Austria
10:45am - 11:15am--- Group Photo & Coffee Break ---
11:15am - 12:15pm

Persistent homology of asymmetric networks

(PDF Link)



Facundo Memoli
Ohio State University, USA
12:15pm - 02:00pm--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm

Viruses and geometry: new insights into virus structure, assembly and evolution



Reidun Twarock
University of York, UK
03:00pm - 04:00pm

Phage capsid structure: theory, phage lifestyle constraints, and environmental diagnostic

(PDF)



Antoni Luque
San Diego State University, USA
04:00pm - 04:30pm--- Coffee Break ---
04:30pm - 05:30pm

Minimum action principles and shape dynamics



Patrice Koehl
University of California, Davis, USA

Tuesday, 13 Jun 2017

09:00am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 10:30am

Normal modes and structural transitions in biological macromolecules

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Marc Delarue
Institut Pasteur, France
10:30am - 11:00am--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm

The search for transition paths: some applications to biological systems

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Henri Orland
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France
12:00pm - 02:00pm--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm

Spectral approaches to partial shape matching

(PDF)



Emanuele Rodolà
Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
03:00pm - 04:00pm

Orbifold-Tutte embedding and deep learning on surfaces



Yaron Lipman
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
04:00pm - 04:30pm--- Coffee Break ---
04:30pm - 05:30pm

On the applicability of convex relaxations for matching symmetric shapes

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Nadav Dym
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Wednesday, 14 Jun 2017

09:00am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 10:30am

Topology with biological applications

(PDF)



John M. Sullivan
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
10:30am - 11:00am--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm

Animal behavior and conformal geometry

(PDF)



Matt Stamps
Yale-NUS College, Singapore
12:00pm - 02:00pm--- Lunch Reception at IMS ---
02:00pm - 04:00pmOpen Problems in Biogeometry and Biotopology
Moderator: Joel Hass
04:00pm - 04:30pm--- Coffee Break ---
04:30pmVenue: Blk S17, Seminar Room #04-06, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, NUS
04:30pm - 05:30pm

Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series/Colloquium Lecture:

Mathematicians helping art historians and art conservators

(PDF, MP4, AVI, Video)



Ingrid Daubechies
Duke University, USA

Thursday, 15 Jun 2017

09:00am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 10:30am

The differential geometry of spaces of polygons and polymers

(PDF, Video)



Jason Canteralla
University of Georgia, USA
10:30am - 11:00am--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm

Description and comparison of protein 3d-Structures with emphasis on (Bio)-topology

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Peter Roegen
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
12:00pm - 02:00pm--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm

Laplace-Beltrami operator - the Swiss army knife of shape analysis problems



Alex Bronstein
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
03:00pm - 04:00pm

Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series:

Biologically relevant distances between morphological surfaces representing teeth and bones

(PDF, Video)



Ingrid Daubechies
Duke University, USA
04:00pm - 04:30pm--- Coffee Break ---
04:30pm - 05:30pm

Geometric optimization for surface parameterization

(PDF)



Shahar Kovalsky
Duke University, USA

Friday, 16 Jun 2017

09:00am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 10:30am

A discrete uniformization theorem and its applications

(PDF, Video)



Feng Luo
Rutgers University, USA
10:30am - 11:00am--- Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 12:00pm

A metric on the space of genus zero shapes

(PDF)



Joel Hass
University of California, Davis, USA
12:00pm - 01:30pm--- Lunch Break ---
01:30pm - 02:30pm

Applications of conformal geometry in brain mapping and computational anatomy

(PDF)



Monica Hurdal
Florida State University , USA
02:30pm - 03:30pm

Topological approach to modeling spatial cognition

(PDF)



Yuri Dabaghian
Rice University, USA
03:30pm - 04:00pm--- Coffee Break ---
04:00pm - 05:00pm

Translating changing shapes into therapies



Chandra Verma
Biomedical Sciences Institutes, Singapore