Matthew L. Wright
Topology for Data Analysis
MSCS Department
St. Olaf College
Northfield, Minnesota
Research
summary
papers
talks
software
Teaching
Fall 2024:
Math 242
Modern Computational Math
Math 348
Topology
Personal
a little about me
Contact Information
wright5@stolaf.edu
Curriculum Vitae
updated September 2024
Map
Where have I traveled to do math?
External Links
Videos
my YouTube channel
Code
my GitHub page
Google Scholar
my profile and citations
Open Articles
my articles at arXiv
What's New
Fall 2024
: I am teaching Math 242: Modern Computational Mathematics and Math 348: Topology.
May 2024
: My paper
Bacterial Growth: Not So Simple
, written with John Chase, won the
Carl B. Allendoerfer Award
for expository excellence in
Mathematics Magazine
.
April 2024
:
Piercing Numbers in Circular Societies
, written with Kristen Mazur, Mutiara Sondjaja, and Carolyn Yarnall, appeared in
Mathematical Analyses of Decisions, Voting, and Games
in the AMS series
Contemporary Mathematics
.
Spring 2024
: I taught Math 242: Modern Computational Mathematics and Math 384: Advanced Computational Mathematics.
November 2023
:
Three's A Crowd: An Exploration of Subprime Tribonacci Sequences
, written with Sara Barrows, Emily Noye, and Sarah Uttormark, appeared in
The College Mathematics Journal
.
October 2023
:
Bacterial Growth: Not So Simple
, written with John Chase, appeared in
Mathematics Magazine
.
Fall 2023
: I taught Math 262: Probability Theory and Math 330: Differential Equations II.
Spring 2023
: I taught Math 242: Modern Computational Mathematics.
January 2023
: I taught Math 282: Computational Geometry.
September 2022
:
Value-Offset Bifiltrations for Digital Images
, with Anway De and Thong Vo, was published in
Computational Geometry
.
Fall Semester 2022
: I taught Math 234: Discrete Math and Math 262: Probability Theory.
May 2022
:
Computing Minimal Presentations and Bigraded Betti Numbers of 2-Parameter Persistent Homology
, with Michael Lesnick, was published in the
SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry
.
April 2022
: Preprint of
Piercing Numbers in Circular Societies
, with Kristen Mazur, Mutiara Sondjaja, and Carolyn Yarnall, is available on arXiv.org.
Spring Semester 2022
: I taught
Math 242: Modern Computational Math
and
Math 262: Probability Theory
.
Fall 2021
: "Magic Triangles", written with Gabriel Hale and Bjorn Vogen, appeared in
The Pi Mu Epsilon Journal
. (
preprint copy
)