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IMath Seminar: Dr. Ricardo del Rosario,Dr. Victoria May Mendoza,Dr. Maria Vivien Visaya

You are all invited to a seminar featuring:

Dr. Ricardo del Rosario (Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
Dr. Victoria May Mendoza (Modelling and Applications Group)
Dr. Maria Vivien Visaya (Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Johannesburg)

Talk: Persistent homology analysis of human populations reveals topological signatures of admixture

Abstract:  We used persistent homology to detect topological signatures of admixture in 26 human populations consisting of 3,202 individuals from whole genome sequencing of the 1000 Genomes Project. We found that the topological structures, visualized as barcodes, can differentiate admixed populations from non-admixed populations.  We also found that clustering using Wasserstein distance groups admixed populations together.   
This is an in-person event, and it will be held on Monday, February 3, 2025, 4:00 PM at the Conference room.