Vanessa Robins

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Vanessa Robins is an Australian applied mathematician whose research interests include computational topology, image processing, and the structure of granular materials. She is a fellow in the departments of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Australian National University, where she was ARC Future Fellow from 2014 to 2019. [1]

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Education

Robins earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at Australian National University in 1994. [1] She completed a PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2000. Her dissertation, Computational Topology at Multiple Resolutions: Foundations and Applications to Fractals and Dynamics, was jointly supervised by James D. Meiss and Elizabeth Bradley. [2]

Contributions

One of Robins's publications, from 1999, is one of the three works that independently introduced persistent homology in topological data analysis. [3] As well as working on mathematical research, she has collaborated with artist Julie Brooke, of the Australian National University School of Art & Design, on the mathematical visualization of topological surfaces. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Dr Vanessa Robins", People, Australian National University Research School of Physics, retrieved 2020-05-04
  2. Vanessa Robins at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Edelsbrunner, Herbert; Morozov, Dmitriy (2013), "Persistent homology: theory and practice" (PDF), European Congress of Mathematics, Eur. Math. Soc., Zürich, pp. 31–50, MR   3469114
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