Neuro-Topology is a new and exciting branch of applied algebraic topology which aims to investigate questions and data arising in neuroscience by topological means.
The Aberdeen Neuro-Topology Research Group is a part of the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Aberdeen. The group was established by Ran Levi in 2017 and is funded by an EPSRC grant – Topological Analysis of Neural Systems, and a collaboration agreement with the Blue Brain Project in EPFL, Switzerland.
In our research we aim to use any applicable tool in the arsenal of algebraic topology, geometry, algebra and combinatorics to gain information about natural and artificial neural networks, as well as analyse data that arises in neuroscience by topological means.
- People
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Ran Levi
Head of group Interests and specialisation: Algebraic Topology, Homotopy Theory of classifying spaces of finite groups, Applications of topology and geometry to neuroscience and other networks, Classical Homotopy Theory, Representation Theory of finite groups and interactions with homotopy theory.
Research Associates
Honorary Research Associates
Postgraduate Students
- Papers and Talks
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Theoretical papers and preprints
Applied papers and preprints
Selected Talks and Presentations
- Software
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Software created in the group
flagser: Computing the homology of directed flag complexes.
- Created by: Daniel Lütgehetmann, Jason P Smith
- github repository and technical description
- Flagser Live: An online implementation of Flagser (by Jason Smith)
flagser count: A program for counting directed cliques in directed graphs, adapted from Flagser
- Created by: Jason P Smith
- github repository
tournser: Computing the persistent homology of tournaplexes
- Created by: Jason P Smith
- github repository
deltser: Computing the homology of delta complexes (semi-simplicial sets)
- Created by: Jason P Smith
- gihub repository
easy-mapper: A user-focused Python implementation of the mapper algorithm.
- Created by: Jānis Lazovskis
- github repository
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