Vanessa Robins

{{short description|Australian mathematician}}

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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.{{r|anu}}

Education

Robins earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at Australian National University in 1994.{{r|anu}} 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.{{r|mg}}

Contributions

One of Robins's publications, from 1999, is one of the three works that independently introduced persistent homology in topological data analysis.{{r|perhom}}

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.{{r|brooke}}

References

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{{citation|url=https://physics.anu.edu.au/contact/people/profile.php?ID=75|title=Dr Vanessa Robins|publisher=Australian National University Research School of Physics|work=People|accessdate=2020-05-04}}

{{citation|url=https://www.scienceinpublic.com.au/media-releases/the-art-of-physics|work=Science in Public|title=The art of science in jewellery, metal, tape and music|date=9 December 2014|accessdate=2020-05-04}}; {{citation|url=https://www.art-almanac.com.au/julie-brooke-minimal-surfaces/|work=Art Almanac|title=Julie Brooke: Minimal Surfaces|date=30 March 2015|accessdate=2020-05-04}}

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| last1 = Edelsbrunner | first1 = Herbert | author1-link = Herbert Edelsbrunner

| last2 = Morozov | first2 = Dmitriy

| contribution = Persistent homology: theory and practice

| contribution-url = https://escholarship.org/content/qt2h33d90r/qt2h33d90r.pdf

| mr = 3469114

| pages = 31–50

| publisher = Eur. Math. Soc., Zürich

| title = European Congress of Mathematics

| year = 2013}}

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