Stochastics meets Geometry

Dec 11, 2017, 7:40 AM → Dec 12, 2017, 6:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Venue: Seminar Room SR 3.69, Department of Mathematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

The workshop is conducted within the scope of the research group "VIII. Mathematics at the Interface of Science and Technology towards Innovation - Seeds in Mathematics versus Needs outside Mathematics" of the HeKKSaGOn network.

We plan to explore in detail results and questions concerning two topics at the intersection of stochastics and geometry: The talks and discussions on Tuesday afternoon will be devoted to smeariness phenomena on closed Riemannian manifolds, and the ones on Wednesday to distances and distortions in pattern recognition.

Scientific Committee

• Prof. Dr. Stephan Huckemann
• Prof. Dr. Wilderich Tuschmann

Local Organizing Team

• Diego Corro
• Fernando Galaz-García
• Ana Karla Garcia Pérez
• Martin Günther
• Jan-Bernhard Kordaß
• Ute Peters
• Wilderich Tuschmann

Background image courtesy of H.-J. Sommerfeld

Monday, December 11

1 Introduction to Statistics: Fundamental Concepts and selected Methods

Speaker: Mr Kilian Stampfer

3:00 PM Discussion and Break

2 A Non-Euclidean Statistics Primer

Speaker: Mr Johannes Wieditz

4:15 PM Discussion and Break

3 Geometry, Topology and Asymptotic Statistics

Speaker: Mr Benjamin Eltzner

5:45 PM Discussion and Break

4 Gromov-Hausdorff and Wasserstein Distances

Speaker: Mr Fernando Galaz-Garcia

7:00 PM General Discussion

8:30 PM Joint Dinner

Tuesday, December 12

5 Geometric Challenges in Non-Euclidean Statistics

Speaker: Prof. Stephan Huckemann

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM General Discussion and Outlook

1:00 PM Joint Lunch