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SUMMARY:DKO 2025 Lecture: Seeing Shapes in Data: How Topology Helps Us Un
 derstand Biology and Medicine by Professor Heather Harrington
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DESCRIPTION:Please see the link below to register for this year’s Dame Ka
 thleen Ollerenshaw lecture on Wednesday 22nd October 2025\, 5-8pm - \n\n
 https://forms.office.com/e/9HAmVa619g\n\nThe event will take place in Le
 cture Theatre A in the Roscoe Building\, The University of Manchester. R
 egistration begins at 5pm in the foyer of the building. \n\n(Directions 
 to Roscoe Building: https://maps.app.goo.gl/UiAVSgttqx6xepWC7)\n\nFor th
 ose who attend\, there will be free food and drinks.\n\n \nAbout the Spe
 aker\n\nThis year’s speaker is Professor Heather Harrington\, who is the
  Scientific Director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biolo
 gy and Genetics (MPI-CBG) at the Center for Systems Biology in Dresden (
 Germany) and also Professor of Mathematics at Oxford.\nProf. Heather Har
 rington leads the Algebraic Systems Biology group\, which combines algeb
 ra\, geometry\, topology\, combinatorics with dynamical systems and biol
 ogical data. Her research is devoted to developing new mathematical theo
 ry and methodologies to solve real-world problems arising in the biologi
 cal\, life and medical sciences. She has received several prestigious aw
 ards\, such as the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society in
  2018 or the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2020 and is a co-winner of the 2
 019 Adams Prize from the University of Cambridge. See more at: www.mpi-c
 bg.de [mpi-cbg.de]\n\nEvent Lecture Title: \n\nSeeing Shapes in Data: Ho
 w Topology Helps Us Understand Biology and Medicine\nAbstract: \nTopolog
 y is a branch of mathematics that studies shapes up to certain kinds of 
 equivalence—for example\, treating a coffee cup and a donut as the same 
 because they both have one hole. Instead of measuring precise distances 
 or angles\, topology focuses on the essential features of a shape that d
 on’t change when you stretch or bend it.\n\nIn recent years\, topologica
 l ideas have been used in new ways to study higher order structure in co
 mplex data. This field\, called topological data analysis (TDA)\, helps 
 uncover the hidden "shape" of data. In this talk\, I’ll introduce a key 
 tool and show how it can be applied to problems in biology and medicine.
  For instance\, we’ll see how topological data analysis can help quantif
 y features in 3D protein data\, identify different cell types\, and clas
 sify diseased tissues by the patterns within. Along the way\, we’ll expl
 ore how abstract math can reveal new insights into the living world.\n\n
 Please contact Maths-Ops@manchester.ac.uk if you have any queries about 
 the event.\n
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LOCATION:Lecture Theatre A\, Roscoe Building\, Manchester
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