The goal of the talk is to present the basics of persistent homology which is one of the primary tools in applied algebraic topology and topological data analysis.
We hope to explain the mathematical ideas behind it, some of its current challenges and relations to sheaf theory.
Links:
[1] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/de/node/3444
[3] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/de/node/158