South African - Japanese Discrete Homotopy Meeting 2025  - Satellite Event

12th of September 2025  - 10.50/11.30  

Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics - University of the Western Cape - Bellville - South Africa

Speaker:   Manjunath Gandhi (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)

Title:          Stable Topological Embedding of Temporal Data

Abstract: The talk concerns how the entire previous history of temporal data that is evolving deterministically can be topologically embedded in another space that is amenable for forecasting. The forecasted values are realised as a value of a designed observable (called ``the readout'' in the machine learning language) of a dynamical system on the embedded object. In fact, the embedded object can be realised as an attractor of such a dynamical system thereby producing robust data-driven models. 

This is a joint work with Juan-Pablo Ortega of the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.