Matthew L. Wright
Topology for Data Analysis
MSCS Department
St. Olaf College
Northfield, Minnesota
Research
summary
papers
talks
software
Teaching
Spring 2023:
Math 242
Modern Computational Mathematics
Personal
a little about me
Contact Information
wright5@stolaf.edu
Curriculum Vitae
updated January 2023
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
Spring 2023
: I am teaching Math 242: Modern Computational Mathematics.
January 2023
: I am teaching 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 am teaching 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 am teaching
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
)
Fall Semester 2021
: I am on sabbatical. I'm working with Matt Richey on a computational mathematics textbook based on Math 242 at St. Olaf College.
December 2020
:
Topological Data Analysis on Simple English Wikipedia Articles
, with Xiaojun Zheng, was published in the PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research.
September 2019
: I gave a colloquium talk about persistent homology at Creighton University.
August 2019
: I gave four lectures on topological data analysis at the
Southeastern Undergraduate Mathematics Workshop
at Georgia Tech.