David Hartman Charles University
Prague



 David Hartman

   Everything is both simpler
than we can imagine,
and more complicated
that we can conceive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Teaching

Actual teaching

Following subjects are organized Summer term 2025.

Past teaching

Following subjects are organized Winter term 2024.

  • NDMI116 - Seminar on the application of complex networks (organized in czech)
  • NOPT053 - Optimization seminar (program at Milan's page)
  • Invited lecture(s) BAM31MOA Modeling and analysis of brain activity (CTU)

Following subjects are organized Summer term 2024.

  • NDMI110 - Graphs and networks
  • NDMI096 - Complex network analysis
  • NDMI056 - Selected Chapters on Combinatorics II

Following subjects are organized Winter term 2023.

  • NDMI116 - Seminar on the application of complex networks
  • Invited lecture(s) BAM31MOA - Modeling and analysis of brain activity (CTU)

Following subjects are organized Summer term 2023.

  • NDMI110 - Graphs and networks
  • NOPT008 - Algorithms of nonlinear optimization
  • NOPT053 - Optimization seminar (program at Milan's page)
  • NDMI056 - Selected Chapters on Combinatorics II

Following subjects are organized Winter term 2022.

  • NDMI116 - Seminar on the application of complex networks (organized in czech)
  • NOPT053 - Optimization seminar (program at Milan's page)
  • Invited lecture(s) BAM31MOA Modeling and analysis of brain activity (CTU)

Following subjects are organized Summer term 2022.

  • NDMI110 - Graphs and networks
  • NDMI096 - Complex network analysis
  • NOPT053 - Optimization seminar (program at Milan's page)
  • NDMI056 - Selected Chapters on Combinatorics II

Following subjects are organized Winter term 2021.

  • NDMI116 - Seminar on the application of complex networks (organized in czech)
  • NOPT053 - Optimization seminar (program at Milan's page)
  • Invited lecture(s) BAM31MOA - Modeling and analysis of brain activity (CTU)

Following subjects are organized Summer term 2021.

  • NOPT008 - Algorithms of nonlinear optimization (organized in czech)
  • NDMI110 - Graphs and networks (organized in czech)
  • NOPT053 - Optimization seminar (program at Milan's page)

Following subjects are organized winter term 2020.

  • NDMI055 - Selected Chapters on Combinatorics I
  • NOPT053 - Optimization seminar (program at Milan's page)
  • Invited lecture(s) BAM31MOA - Modeling and analysis of brain activity (CTU)

Following subjects are organized summer term 2020.

  • NDMI096 - Complex network analysis (organized in czech)
  • NOPT053 - Optimization seminar (program at Milan's page)

Following subjects were organized winter term 2019.

  • NDMI055 - Selected Chapters on Combinatorics I
  • NOPT053 - Optimization seminar (program at Milan's page)
  • Invited lecture(s) BAM31MOA - Modeling and analysis of brain activity (CTU)

Following subjects were organized summer term 2019.

  • NOPT008 - Algorithms of nonlinear optimization (organized in czech)
  • NOPT053 - Optimization seminar (program at Milan's page)

Older

  • NDMI096 - Complex network analysis
  • NOPT008 - Algorithms of nonlinear optimization
  • NOPT051 - Interval optimization
  • NDMI002 - Discrete Math

Theses

Topics for theses

There are several meta-topics, which means that we can meet and discuss in order to derive an actual topics. This part is quite dynamical, so I do not guarantee that all topics are still free. The best way is to contact me directly.
  • Complex networks
    (meta-topic - can generate more topics)

    Complex networks represents well-known still quite new field of analysis of real world systems with network character like social, biological or climate networks; there are several problems how to model them, compute their characterstics or define processes over them. Topics may include from theoretical exploration of various characteristics such as

    • extremal properties of complex network characteristics, or
    • novel approaches in graph clustering and community detection, or
    • application of random graph theory to complex network
    to actual processing of different data including
    • neurological data from studies using fMRI, EEG, iEEG etc., or
    • financial data including stock markets, or
    • Earth's climate data.

    References:
  • Symmetric graphs

    This topic stay on the boundary of graph theory and algebra representing by so called algebraic graph theory. The interest of this topic is to explore graphs with various sources of symmetry. Immediate example are regular graphs having all degrees the same or more complicated vertex transitive graphs for which any pair of vertices can be mapped one into the other by an automorphism. The interest of this meta-topic is to explore various forms of highly symmetric graphs (or even more general structures) where any local morphism (e.g. isomorphism of homomorphism) can be extended to the global one (over the whole structure, e.g. automorphism or endomorphism). For example of such structure, please, refer yourself to the following review.

    References:
  • Using hypergraphs in brain networks

    The goal of this topic is to explore potential strengths of hypergraphs when used to analyze functional connectivity in Human brain. This work has graph theoretical as well as pure practical and applied part. In applied part students should be ready to get familiar to working with brain data and create tools runing particular data analysis on respective samples. For basic idea see the following paper:

    References:

Selected defended theses

Defended master theses Defended Bachelor theses

Additional teaching activities

Ročníkové projekty (in czech)

Nabízené projekty jsou různého druhu - buďto více programovací či teoretické. Ideálním postupem řešení je následné rozšíření témat na bakalářské prace a ideální způsobem domluvy je kontakt přes email a domluva konkrétního zadání.
  1. Komparativní studie komutních algoritmů

    V tomto zadání je cílem vytvořit komparativní studii chování různých algoritmů detekce komunit. Cílem bude porovnání různých přístupů a selekce nejlepších algoritmů dle různých kritérií. Požadovaný jazyk implementace je Python.

    Reference:
  2. Centrality v hyper-grafech a multigrafech

    V tomto zadání je cílem vytvořit přehled o centralitách v rozšířených strukturách grafů a hypergrafů.

    Reference:
    • Boccaletti, S., Bianconi, G., Criado, R., Del Genio, C. I., Gómez-Gardenes, J., Romance, M., ... & Zanin, M. (2014). The structure and dynamics of multilayer networks. Physics reports, 544(1), 1-122.
    • Estrada, E., and Rodriguez-Velazquez, J. A. (2005). Complex networks as hypergraphs. arXiv preprint physics/0505137.

  3. Porovnání estimátorů vzájemných informací

    V tomto zadání je vytvořit či převzít srovnatelné estimátory vzájemných informací a vytvořit testující prostředí pro jejich efektivní porovnání.

    Reference:
    • Kraskov, A., Stögbauer, H., and Grassberger, P. (2004). Estimating mutual information. Physical review E, 69(6), 066138.
    • Walters-Williams, J., and Li, Y. (2009, July). Estimation of mutual information: A survey. In International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (pp. 389-396). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.