CCMS Colloquium: Shahriar Shahriari’s Talk (William Polk Russell Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Pomona College)
December 4 @ 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Speaker: Shahriar Shahriari, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Title: Shahriar Shahriari’s Talk
Abstract: TBA
Bio: In 1998, Shahriari shared the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award with Dan Kalman and Robert Mena for their paper “Variations on an Irrational Theme—Geometry, dynamics, algebra”
In 2015, Shahriar Shahriari received a Mathematical Association of America Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching in Mathematics for his commitment to bringing more students from underrepresented groups into the field of mathematics — widely considered the nation’s top prize for teaching mathematics.
Known for classes that encourage student-driven discovery, he published the materials for his honors Calculus class as a textbook, titled Approximately Calculus, which won the American Library Association’s Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2007.
Shahriari’s research focuses principally on chain partitions and cut-sets of Boolean Lattices and other partially ordered sets