Andres Angel

Assistant Professor

 

Universidad de los Andes

Departamento de Matematicas

Carrera 1 No 18A-12

Bogota, Colombia

 

E-mail: ja.angel908 [at] uniandes [dot] edu [dot] co

Office: H -309

Telephone: +5713394949 5217

 

 

 

Research interests

 

Algebraic and geometric topology: cobordism, orbifolds, string topology and the topology of moduli spaces.

 

Applied algebraic topology: topological data analysis, persistent homology, topological robotics and topological combinatorics.

 

 

Positions

 

[2012-] Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.

Assistant professor.

 

 

[2011-2012] Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.

Visiting professor.

 

 

2008-2010 Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany.

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter.

 

 

Education

 

 

[2003-2008 ] Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Ph.D. in Mathematics.

Dissertation Adviser: Ralph Cohen

Dissertation Title : Cobordisms of Orbifolds.

 

 

[1997-2002] Universidad de los Andes. Bogota, Colombia.

B.S Magna Cum Laude in Mathematics with Minor in Electrical Engineering .

Thesis Adviser: Xavier Caicedo

Thesis Title: Topological Methods in the study of Vaught`s Conjecture

 

 

Grants

 

Assistant professor Grant. Science Faculty. December 6/2012.

 

Grant for innovation in education. Science Faculty. May 10/2013.

 

 

 

Publications

 

Equivariant topological complexities. (Joint work with H.Colman). Accepted for publication Contemporary Mathematics. Volume: Topological Complexity and Related Topics. pdf

 

Survey of equivariant notions of topological complexity. (Joint work with H.Colman). Oberwolfach Reports No 15/2016. pdf

 

Simplical complexes and the evasiveness conjecture (Joint work with J.Borja).GSM 2016 volume 1 issue 1. pdf

The BV-Algebra Structure of the Hochschild Cohomology of the Group Ring of Cyclic Groups of Prime Order (Joint work with D.Duarte). Proceedings of Geometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory 2013. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd 2016 pdf

 

A survey on orbifold string topology. Proceedings of Geometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory 2011. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd 2014. pdf

 

Hochschild and String Topology of Orbifolds.(Joint work with E. Backelin and B. Uribe). Journal of Topology 2012. Volume 5 Issue 3. pdf.

 

Totaro's spectral sequence. Oberwolfach Arbeitsgemainschaft 2010 Report 47/2010. pdf.

 

When is a manifold the boundary of an Orbifold?. Proceedings of Geometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory 2007. Cambridge University Press. 2009. pdf.

 

A spectral sequence for orbifold cobordism. Proceedings of Algebraic Topology: Old and New; M. M. Postnikov Memorial Conference 2007. Banach Center Publ. 85 (2009), 141-154. pdf.

 

 

 

Preprints

 

 

Equilateral $p$-gons in $\mathbb R^d$ and deformed spheres and mod $p$ Fadell-Husseini index (Joint work with J.Borja) Submitted Arxiv

 

A BV-algebra Structure on Hochschild Cohomology of the Group Ring of Finitely Generated Abelian Groups. (Joint work with D.Duarte). Submitted. Arxiv

 

The Evasiveness Conjecture and Graphs on 2p Vertices (Joint work with J.Borja). Arxiv

 

Free and based path groupoids (Joint work with H. Colman) Arxiv

 

Orbifold Cobordism. pdf.

 

 

 

Students

 

 

Sergio Chaves. Master Thesis 2012. Cobordism and homotopy spheres. pdf.

David Perdomo. Undergraduate Thesis 2013. Witten's proof of Morse Inequalities. pdf.

Rodolfo Quintero. Undergraduate Thesis 2013. Aplicaciones de topologia algebraica a combinatoria. La conjetura de Kneser. pdf.

Luis Polanco. Undergraduate Thesis 2013. Hilbert 5th's problem. pdf.

David Perdomo. Master Thesis 2015. Topological Data Analysis with Metric Learning and an Application to High-Dimensional Football Data. pdf.

Jose Quintero. Undergraduate Thesis 2015. Application of sliding windows to periodicity of functions. pdf.

Nicolas Escobar. Undergraduate thesis 2015. The notion of orientation in K-theory. pdf.

Luis Polanco. Master Thesis 2015. Estimations on persistent homology. pdf.

Rodolfo Quintero. Master Thesis 2016. Intrinsic volumes and phase transition on optimization problems. pdf.

Gustavo Chaparro. Master Thesis 2016. Vietoris-Rips complex of the circle and torus. pdf.

Jerson Borja. Phd Thesis 2016. Equivariant algebraic topology applied to some problems in topological combinatorics. pdf.

Diego Duarte. Phd Thesis 2017. Calculations of BV algebra on the Hochschild (co)homology and string topology of classifying spaces. pdf.

 

 

Felipe Gonzalez. Current Master Student. Applied Algebraic Topology

Fernando Torres. Current Phd Candidate. Stratifolds and the Atiyah-Hirzebruch Spectral Sequence.

Cesar Reyes. Current Phd Candidate.