John Harer

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Professor (primary appt: Mathematics)

Contact Information:
Education:

PhDUniversity of California, Berkeley1979
BSHaverford College1974

Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests:

Professor Harer's primary research is in the use of geometric, combinatorial and computational techniques to study a variety of problems in data analysis, shape recognition, image segmentation, plant root architecture, biological networks and gene expression.

Specialties:

Topology
Geometry
Applied Math

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions:

  • Henry Russell Award, University of Michigan
  • Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan
  • Fellowship, Sloane Foundation
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, NSF

Courses Taught:
  • MATH 412.01 - TOPOLOGY WITH APPLICATIONS

Representative Publications: (More Publications)
    • Katherine Turner, Yuriy Mileyko, Sayan Mukherjee and John Hare, Fréchet Means for Distributions of Persistence diagrams, arXiv:1206.2790 [math.ST] (Preprint, 2012) [abs].
    • T. Galkovskyi, Y. Mileyko, A. Bucksch, B. Moore, O. Symonova, C. Price, C. Topp, A. Iyer-Pascuzzi, P. Zurek, S. Fang, J. Harer, P. Benfey and J. Weitz, GiA Roots: software for the high throughput analysis of plant root system architecture, BMC Plant Biology, vol 12 no. 116 (2012) [abs].
    • Christopher N Topp, Anjali S Iyer-Pascuzzi, Jill T Anderson, Cheng-Ruei Lee, Paul R Zurek, Olga Symonova, Ying Zheng, Alexander Bucksch, Yuriy Milyeko, Taras Galkovskyi, Brad Moore, John Harer, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Thomas Mitchell Olds, Joshua S Weitz, Philip N Benfey, 3-dimensional phenotyping of growing root systems combined with QTL mapping identifies core regions of the rice genome controlling root architecture, Nature Biotechnology (Submitted, 2012).
    • Anastasia Deckard, Ron C. Anafi, John B. Hogenesch, Steven B. Haase, John Harer, Design and Analysis of Large-Scale Biological Rhythm Studies: A Comparison of Algorithms for Detecting Periodic Signals in Biological Data, PLOS Computational Biology (Submitted, 2012) [abs].
    • Anastasia Deckard, Jurgen Sladeczek, David A. Orlando, Steven B. Haase and John Harer, Biochronicity Website: Sharing the results of running periodicity detection algorithms on biological data (Submitted, 2012) [abs].