Geometry and Shape Analysis in Biological Sciences (8-9 June 2017)

Venue: IMS, National University of Singapore

Organizers

• Joel Hass (University of California at Davis)
• Patrice Koehl (University of California at Davis)

Objectives

Topics covered include geometry and topology of biological shapes, the uniformization theorem, building optimal mapping between shapes and distances in shape spaces.

• Understand where geometry and topology play roles in biology
• Define and vizualize biological shapes
• Describe mathematically shapes, and introduce the concept of shape descriptors
• Define how to measure the distance between two shapes
• Learn about the different types of mapping between shapes, and how to compute them

All those topics will be illustrated with many examples.

Program