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Author: Pseudomanifold

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   [BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/emsimons.bsky.social/post/3ldnzqoefrc2x)
   for more details.
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+2025-01-08 = """
+  Bastian will give three talks at
+  [JMM](https://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/jmm), the Joint Mathematics
+  Meetings: 
+
+  1. Diss-lECT: Dissecting Data with local Euler Characteristic
+     Transforms (related to a [recent preprint of
+     ours](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02622))
+  2. Two Households, Both Alike In Dignity: Geometry and Topology in Machine Learning
+  3. Good Gradients and How To Find Them: Towards Multi-Scale Representation Learning
+
+  Find these (and more!) talks at [Bastian's website](https://bastian.rieck.me/talks/).
+"""