Fibers of point cloud persistence
Beers, D Harrington, H Leygonie, J Lim, U Theran, L (12 Nov 2024)
Cover Learning for Large-Scale Topology Representation
Scoccola, L Lim, U Harrington, H (22 Sep 2025)

Understanding and managing burnout within the University context - Dr Ruth Collins, Chartered Psychologist & Staff Mental Health Training Lead for Oxford University.

Monday 23 February, 10.30-11.30 am, St Luke’s Chapel

Topological model selection: a case-study in tumour-induced angiogenesis
Harrington, H McDonald, R Byrne, H Stolz-Pretzer, B Thorne, T Bioinformatics
Topological model selection: a case-study in tumour-induced angiogenesis
HARRINGTON, H Stolz-Pretzer, B Mcdonald, R BYRNE, H Thorne, T Bioinformatics
Numerical Conformal Mapping
Trefethen, L Notices of the American Mathematical Society volume 72 issue 11 1300 (01 Dec 2025)
Fri, 06 Feb 2026
13:00
L6

Computing Diffusion Geometry

Iolo Jones
(Oxford University)
Abstract

Calculus and geometry are ubiquitous in the theoretical modelling of scientific phenomena, but have historically been very challenging to apply directly to real data as statistics. Diffusion geometry is a new theory that reformulates classical calculus and geometry in terms of a diffusion process, allowing these theories to generalise beyond manifolds and be computed from data. In this talk, I will describe a new, simple computational framework for diffusion geometry that substantially broadens its practical scope and improves its precision, robustness to noise, and computational complexity. We present a range of new computational methods, including all the standard objects from vector calculus and Riemannian geometry, and apply them to solve spatial PDEs and vector field flows, find geodesic (intrinsic) distances, curvature, and several new topological tools like de Rham cohomology, circular coordinates, and Morse theory. These methods are data-driven, scalable, and can exploit highly optimised numerical tools for linear algebra.

Join Oxford University Lifesaving Club at the Rosenblatt Pool, Iffley Road Sports Centre, for LIFESAVING CUPPERS on Sunday 8th February, 4-6 pm. Compete for your college or for the department.

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