Professor Michael Farber
PhDProfessor of Mathematics, Director of Institute for Applied Data Science
Research
topological robotics, applied and computational topology, applications of topology to statistics and computer science
Interests
Michael Farber is Professor of Mathematics at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London. Michael Farber is the director of Institute for Applied Data Science (IADS) and a Turing Fellow, he serves as the Turing University Lead for Queen Mary. Prior to Queen Mary, M. Farber held professorships at the Universities of Warwick, Durham and Tel Aviv. Michael Farber obtained his PhD and D.Sc. degrees in the USSR. His research interests focus on applied and computational topology, topological robotics, applications of topology to statistics and computer science. M.Farber is currently involved in several collaborations: using topological methods in distributed computing in computer science, machine learning techniques in genomics and cancer research and using methods of stochastic topology for modelling brain connectivity. Michael Farber is the author of several monographs. M. Farber was awarded many research grants, among them the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. His current research project "Probabilistic and Deterministic Topology" is supported by the Leverhulme Trust.Publications
Publications of specific relevance to Advanced Robotics2023
Farber M and Weinberger S (2023). Parametrized topological complexity of sphere bundles. Topological Methods of Nonlinear Analysis 10.12775/TMNA.2022.049Cohen DC, Farber M and Weinberger S (2023). Correction to: Parametrized topological complexity of collision-free motion planning in the plane (Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, (2022), 90, 10, (999-1015), 10.1007/s10472-022-09801-6). Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence vol. 91, (1) 105-106. 10.1007/s10472-022-09821-2Farber M and Weinberger S (2023). Parametrized Motion Planning and Topological Complexity. 10.1007/978-3-031-21090-7_12022
Farber M and Paul AK (2022). Sequential Parametrized Motion Planning and its complexity. Topology and its Applications 108256-108256. 10.1016/j.topol.2022.108256Cohen DC, Farber M and Weinberger S (2022). Parametrized topological complexity of collision-free motion planning in the plane. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence vol. 90, (10) 999-1015. 10.1007/s10472-022-09801-6Farber M, Even - Zohar C and Mead L (2022). Ample simplicial complexes. European Journal of Mathematics 10.1007/s40879-021-00521-52021
Cohen DC, Farber M and Weinberger S (2021). Topology of parametrized motion planning algorithms. SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry vol. 5, (2) 229-249. 10.1137/20M1358505Farber M, Mead L and Strauss L (2021). The Rado simplicial complex. Journal of Applied and Computational Topology vol. 5, (2) 339-356. 10.1007/s41468-021-00069-zFarber M and Even-Zohar C (2021). Random surfaces with boundary. Discrete and Computational Geometry: an international journal of mathematics and computer science 10.1007/s00454-021-00301-8Farber M and Nowik T (2021). TOPOLOGICAL EMBEDDINGS INTO RANDOM 2-COMPLEXES. Random Structures and Algorithms 10.1002/rsa.209872020
Farber M and Mescher S (2020). On the topological complexity of aspherical spaces. Journal of Topology and Analysis vol. 12, (2) 293-319. 10.1142/S1793525319500511Farber M, Kishimoto D and Stanley D (2020). Generating functions and topological complexity. Topology and its Applications vol. 278, 10.1016/j.topol.2020.107235Goubault E, Farber M and Sagnier A (2020). Directed topological complexity. Journal of Applied and Computational Topology vol. 4, (1) 11-27. 10.1007/s41468-019-00034-xFarber M and Mead L (2020). Random simplicial complexes in the medial regime. Topology and its Applications: a journal devoted to general, geometric, set-theoretic and algebraic topology 107065-107065. 10.1016/j.topol.2020.1070652019
Farber M, Mead L and Nowik T (2019). Random simplicial complexes, duality and the critical dimension. Journal of Topology and Analysis 1-31. 10.1142/s1793525320500387Farber M and Oprea J (2019). Higher topological complexity of aspherical spaces. Topology and its Applications vol. 258, 142-160. 10.1016/j.topol.2019.02.055Farber M, Grant M, Lupton G and Oprea J (2019). An upper bound for topological complexity. Topology and its Applications vol. 255, 109-125. 10.1016/j.topol.2019.01.007Farber M, Grant M, Lupton G and Oprea J (2019). Bredon cohomology and robot motion planning. Algebraic and Geometric Topology vol. 19, (4) 2023-2059. 10.2140/agt.2019.19.20232017
FARBER M (2017). Configuration Spaces and Motion Planning Algorithms. Combinatorial and Toric Topology , Editors: Grbic J, Darby A and Wu J. 10.1142/9789813226579_0005Costa A and Farber M (2017). Large random simplicial complexes, III the critical dimension. Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications vol. 26, (2) 10.1142/S0218216517400107Farber M (2017). Configuration spaces and robot motion planning algorithms. Combinatorial and Toric Homotopy: Introductory Lectures 10.1142/9789813226579_00052016
FARBER M and Costa A (2016). Large random simplicial complexes, II; the fundamental group. Journal of Topology and Analysis 10.1142/S1793525317500170Cohen D, Costa A, Farber M and Kappeler T (2016). Correction to Our Article “Topology of Random 2-Complexes” Published in DCG 47 (2012), pp. 117–149. Discrete and Computational Geometry vol. 56, (2) 502-503. 10.1007/s00454-016-9797-zCosta A and Farber M (2016). Random simplicial complexes. Springer INdAM Series vol. 14, 129-153. 10.1007/978-3-319-31580-5_62015
Costa AE and Farber M (2015). Geometry and topology of random 2-complexes. Israel Journal of Mathematics vol. 209, (2) 883-927. 10.1007/s11856-015-1240-2FARBER M and Costa A (2015). Large random simplicial complexes, I. Journal of Topology and Analysis vol. 8, (3) 399-429. 10.1142/S179352531650014XCosta A, Farber M and Horak D (2015). Fundamental groups of clique complexes of random graphs. Transactions of the London Mathematical Society vol. 2, (1) 1-32. 10.1112/tlms/tlv0012013
Costa AE and Farber M (2013). The asphericity of random 2‐dimensional complexes. Random Structures and Algorithms vol. 46, (2) 261-273. 10.1002/rsa.204992012
Farber M and Fromm V (2012). The topology of spaces of polygons. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society vol. 365, (6) 3097-3114. 10.1090/s0002-9947-2012-05722-9