Heather Harrington
Mathematician interested in data & biology. Max Planck Institute & TU Dresden. Oxford Maths Institute & St John’s College, Oxford. Previously Imperial College London & Umass Amherst.
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonThe spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellow Program is now open. We look forward to receiving your applications by March 13, 2026! Further information can be found here: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/jobs...
- The spring call for the ELBE Postdoctoral Fellows Program is open now: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a.... Join the @csbdresden.bsky.social for a fully funded fellowship. @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social
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- Looking forward @mmbronstein.bsky.social
- As part of the @oeaw.bsky.social General Assembly on Dec 5, Michael Bronstein & Georg Winter, directors of @aithyra.bsky.social, & @haharrington.bsky.social, director @mpi-cbg.de, will discuss “Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine.” www.oeaw.ac.at/en/detail/ev...
- Deadline for applied topology postdoc in Dresden closes in a week. Please share with early career researchers!
- The new @mpi-cbg.de research group leader Daniela Egas Santander is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in Applied Topology for Biology. Apply until November 16th here: careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/6002777...
- Greeted this morning with the blackboard of math discussion— looks like algebra, topology and data— during tea yesterday @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonThe new @mpi-cbg.de research group leader Daniela Egas Santander is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in Applied Topology for Biology. Apply until November 16th here: careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/6002777...
- Our call for ELBE Visiting Faculty at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden is live with deadline 30 November: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a... Please visit us during your sabbatical! @mpi-cbg.de @math-mpicbg.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social
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[Not loaded yet] - Cool paper out by mathematicians studying population dynamics with algebraic geometry @georgysch.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social
- New preprint: We study Lotka-Volterra ecological dynamics through computational algebraic geometry. By encoding feasibility & stability on the real Grassmannian, we prove certain ecological networks are mathematically impossible 🧮🌿 arxiv.org/abs/2509.00165
- Enjoying learning about membrane transport, structural biology and lipids from our Thursday seminar speaker Rich Hite @hitelabmskcc.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonSilviana Amethyst from our ASB group is teaching the Computational Algebraic Geometry course at the Gene Golub #SIAM summer school in Montréal (August 4-15th: www.siam.org/programs-ini...). Topics: foundations of, software of, & advances & open problems in computational algebraic geometry 😊. Enjoy!
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonNew pre-print: Probabilistic algorithm for computing all local minimizers of Morse functions on a compact domain - Archive ouverte HAL 📄 Preprint: hal.science/hal-05160251v1 💻 Julia: github.com/gescholt/Glo... #Optimization #JuliaLang #ScientificComputing #ComputerAlgebra
- We’re looking for a mathematical research and collaboration manager to join our new initiative of mathematics in a biology institute in Dresden, Germany! @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @math-mpicbg.bsky.social Please share widely: careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/5734151...
- We are searching for an AI researcher in lab automation, statistical ML and (theoretical) physics AI for bio/med. Expression of interest and nominations welcome!!!
- Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence: Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. More information: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonThanks to @aidadoesmath.bsky.social and Max Wiesmann for organising this Dresden-Leipzig meetup! And for the MTO at @mpi-cbg.de for this beautiful picture of all the attendees.
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonNew interdisciplinary math+bio paper! Mouse liver assembloids model periportal architecture and biliary fibrosis. In vitro assembloids modelling the mouse liver periportal region were built to study processes causing scarring (cholestatic injury/biliary fibrosis) and the shape change this causes.
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonAwesome new paper in @nature.com from PhD student Benjamin Yang @benjaminojr.bsky.social from the Algebraic Systems Biology Group!
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonThe group of Meritxell Huch @merihuchlab.bsky.social together with the Heather Harrington group @math-mpicbg.bsky.social & @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social develop next-generation organoid model that reconstructs liver architecture to better understand liver disease. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonI posted about this paper this a while ago on another website, but figured I'd post it here now that I have a few followers. (Joint with @haharrington.bsky.social, Jacob Leygonie, @uzulim.bsky.social, and Louis Theran). arxiv.org/abs/2411.08201 1/10
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonNew paper on arXiv! 'Topology across scales on heterogeneous cell data', From Maria Torras Perez, @torrasperez.bsky.social, Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social, et al: arxiv.org/abs/2505.02717
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonOutstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
- Great to meet so many new members of the maths for AI hub. @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social Looking forward to the next conference in June!!!
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- First math data project for Vincenzo @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
- Very excited that our Oxford members and postdocs on the collaboration grant @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social joined our research retreat!
- Highlights to come from Brunów, Poland, but here we all are! All current and upcoming members. A wonderful couple of days getting to know more about each others’ work. All three groups together: @haharrington.bsky.social, Türkü Özlüm Çelik, and @aidadoesmath.bsky.social 🩵🩵🩵
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- First Maths retreat @mpi-cbg.de @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social of course we brought a chalk board! ❤️ The title of applied projects is “Wonderland” in rainbow colors. And mandatory afternoon walk /discussion around math talks :)
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonFulvio Gesmundo @fulges.bsky.social from the Université de Toulouse visited Vincenzo @vincgalg.bsky.social this week to work on tensor geometry. Fulvio works on tensor decomposition, ie rewriting tensors to make them usable for computations. Happy to have you with us Fulvio!
- So excited that Vukasin is visiting @csbdresden.bsky.social and will join Oxford @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social with our oxford MPI collaboration grant @mpi-cbg.de
- Vukašin Stojisavljević - a postdoc at the Université de Montréal who will soon be joining us as a postdoc - is visiting us this week! He'll be giving a talk tomorrow at TUDresden @tudresden.bsky.social on nodal topology and TDA (2.30pm, room WIL C/104). Please do join! Welcome Vukašin :)
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonVukašin Stojisavljević - a postdoc at the Université de Montréal who will soon be joining us as a postdoc - is visiting us this week! He'll be giving a talk tomorrow at TUDresden @tudresden.bsky.social on nodal topology and TDA (2.30pm, room WIL C/104). Please do join! Welcome Vukašin :)
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- Reposted by Heather HarringtonMy paper with Luis Scoccola and @haharrington.bsky.social were accepted to present in ICML 2025 🥳🥳 We use gradient descent to solve a fundamental problem in computational topology: Compute a topologically good cover of a dataset. It improves Mapper and persistent homology! arxiv.org/abs/2503.09767
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- Reposted by Heather HarringtonFaculty hire alert! We are so excited to announce the wonderful Jane Coons - a postdoc in the Algebraic Systems Biology group - will be an Assistant Professor in the Mathematical Sciences dept at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts in the US, starting August. Huge congrats Jane! 🩵😎
- Well done Ben! Our first collaboration with experimental biologists @mpi-cbg.de Here’s to many more results combining new math + experimental bio!!!
- Massive congrats to PhD student @benjaminojr.bsky.social who had his first paper accepted last night! Awesome news 🙌🏼
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonAfter Munich, longstanding collaborator Elizabeth Gross visited us from the University of Hawaii. She gave a wonderful talk about dynamic Markov bases, and had some great conversations with Jiayi, Jane, @georgysch.bsky.social, Türkü, and many others. Here she is with @haharrington.bsky.social
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- Oxford ❤️ Afternoon tea with @alaingoriely.bsky.social College meals @stjohnsox.bsky.social with @mmbronstein.bsky.social Philip Maini & Maria Bruna. Finishing manuscripts with students 🥰 Organising AI hub and centre to center activities @jeffgian.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
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- Congratulations to colleague ans collaborator Meri Huch @mpicbg.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social !!! Her reaearch creates organoid models of tissue /stem cells, impacts for cancer/disease AND inspires us to create new mathematics @math-mpicbg.bsky.social
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonHello! The CSBD is now sharing news on @bsky.app 🦋
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- ELBE Visiting faculty program deadline for applications is Friday 14 Feb. Visit us for 2-3 months!!! converia.pks.mpg.de/frontend/ind...
- ELBE Postdoc fellowship application deadline Friday 14 Feb —tomorrow! Join us in Dresden!!!
- The ELBE Postdoc Program is closing for applications tomorrow (Feb 14th). We're looking for strong backgrounds in applied math, compbio/compsci/bioinformatics, theoretical physics/biophysics, and/or cell/dev bio, and a big interest in interdisciplinary research: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a...
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- A computation that took us over 8 hours now only takes 15 seconds with tropical geometry! Very excited that Oskar Henriksson will join the algebra in data analysis (AIDA) group @mpicbg.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social
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- First lecture introducing numerical algebraic geometry! @mpicbg.bsky.social
- Positive geometry and canonical forms via mixed hodge theory warm up for workshop numerical nonlinear algebra in the real world @mpicbg.bsky.social
- Rainbows on the way to Bonn @tudresden.bsky.social @poldresden.bsky.social
- Today KellyMaggs @k311ym4gg5.bsky.social @math-mpicbg.bsky.social @mpicbg.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social will give talk on mathML research! @krishnaswamylab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonOn Feb 3-6 2025, we are hosting Numerical (Nonlinear) Algebra in the Real World @mpicbg.bsky.social - a 3 day event to discuss nonlinear modeling problems and techniques, so we can better model those many nonlinear scientific phenomena: plan.events.mpg.de/event/355/ov...
- Reposted by Heather HarringtonPhD Students: we're now taking applications for internships in our lab. If your'e working on ML, CS, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Audio and Video processing and related disciplines, throw your hat in the ring! jobs.lever.co/spotify/0b16...
- Another great lineup of speakers at GeoTop seminar series this spring @agnesebarbensi.bsky.social @stolzbernadette.bsky.social seminargeotop-a.com
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- Dresden Christmas market and signing for a BioAI director!!!! @mpicbg.bsky.social
