Robert W. Ghrist (born 1969) is an American mathematician, known for his work on topological methods in applied mathematics.
Life and work
Ghrist received his bachelor's degree in
mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...
from the
University of Toledo
The University of Toledo (UToledo or UT) is a Public university, public research university in Toledo, Ohio, United States. It is the northernmost campus of the University System of Ohio. The university also operates a Health Science campus, ...
in 1991, and in 1994 his master's degree and in 1995 his PhD from
Cornell University
Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...
under
Philip Holmes with thesis ''The link of periodic orbits of a flow''. From 1996 to 1998, he was ''R. H. Bing Instructor'' at the
University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 2 ...
and from 1998 an assistant professor and then from 2002 an associate professor at the
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, GT, and simply Tech or the Institute) is a public university, public research university and Institute of technology (United States), institute of technology in Atlanta, ...
. In 2002 he became an associate professor and in 2004 a professor at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...
. From 2007, he was at the ''Information Trust Institute''. In 2008, he was appointed ''Andrea Mitchell Penn Integrating Knowledge University Professor'' in Mathematics and Electrical/Systems Engineering at the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...
.
Ghrist was a visiting scientist in 1995 at the
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Ein ...
and in 2000 at the
Isaac Newton Institute
The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is an international research institute for mathematics and its applications at the University of Cambridge. It is named after one of the university's most illustrious figures, the mathematician ...
in Cambridge. He works on the application of topological methods to
dynamical system
In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a Function (mathematics), function describes the time dependence of a Point (geometry), point in an ambient space, such as in a parametric curve. Examples include the mathematical models ...
s,
robot
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s,
hydrodynamic
In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids – liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including (the study of air and other gases in moti ...
s, and
information system
An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, Information Processing and Management, store, and information distribution, distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, info ...
s, such as
sensor network
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental ...
s.
Honors and awards
In 2002, Ghrist received a
Presidential Early Career Award. In 2013, he received the
Chauvenet Prize
The Chauvenet Prize is an annual award given by the Mathematical Association of America in recognition of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate.
The Chauvenet Prize was the ...
for ''Barcodes: The Persistent Topology of Data''
[Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. vol. 45, 2008, pp. 61–75]
Online
/ref> and in 2014 the Gauss Lectureship
The Gauss Lectureship (''Gauß-Vorlesung'') is an annually awarded mathematical distinction, named in honor of Carl Friedrich Gauss. It was established in 2001 by the German Mathematical Society with a series of lectures for a broad audience.
Eac ...
of the German Mathematical Society
The German Mathematical Society (, DMV) is the main professional society of German mathematicians and represents German mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU). It was founded in ...
.
Selected works
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See also
* Topological data analysis
In applied mathematics, topological data analysis (TDA) is an approach to the analysis of datasets using techniques from topology. Extraction of information from datasets that are high-dimensional, incomplete and noisy is generally challenging. TDA ...
References
External links
HomepageApplied topology and Dante: an interview with Robert Ghrist; The Endeavour, John D. Cook
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20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
University of Toledo alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of Illinois faculty
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Mathematicians at the University of Pennsylvania
1969 births
Living people
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Georgia Tech faculty
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers