| edels at cs.duke.edu | |
| Office | D203 LSRC |
| Phone | (919) 660-6545 |
| Fax | (919) 660-6519 |
| Web page | http://www.cs.duke.edu/~edels |
Education
Ph.D., Graz University of Technology, Austria, 1982M.S., Graz University of Technology, Austria, 1980
Honors & Awards
2008: Elected member of the German Academy of Science (Leopoldina)2006: Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.) from the Graz University of Technology.
2005: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1991: Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation.
Research
Algorithms, discrete and computational geometry, computational topology, applications to biology.
Current Projects:
Genome-wide analysis
of root traits - a collaboration between biology.
mathematics and computer science
Algebraic topological tools for high-dimensional data analysis (Darpa).
Microstates to macrodynamics: a new mathematics of biology (Darpa).
Selected Publications
- H. Edelsbrunner and J. Harer. "Persistent homology --- a survey." In "Surveys on Discrete and Computational Geometry. Twenty Years Later", eds. J. E. Goodman, J. Pach and R. Pollack, Contemporary Mathematics 453, 257-282, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, Rhode Island, 2008.
- D. Cohen-Steiner, H. Edelsbrunner and J. Harer. "Stability of persistence diagrams." Discrete Comput. Geom. 37 (2007), 103-120.
- H. Edelsbrunner. "Surface reconstruction by wrapping finite sets in space." In "Discrete and Computational Geometry --- The Goodman-Pollack Festschrift", eds. B. Aronov, S. Basu, J. Pach and M. Sharir, 379-404, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003.
- Y.-H. A. Ban, H. Edelsbrunner and J. Rudolph. "Interface surfaces for protein-protein complexes." J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. 53 (2006), 361-378.