Week of Events
Minimal Gaussian Partitions, Clustering Hardness and Voting (Steven Heilman, USC)
Minimal Gaussian Partitions, Clustering Hardness and Voting (Steven Heilman, USC)
A single soap bubble has a spherical shape since it minimizes its surface area subject to a fixed enclosed volume of air. When two soap bubbles collide, they form a "double-bubble" composed of three spherical caps. The double-bubble minimizes total surface area among all sets enclosing two fixed volumes. This was proven mathematically in a […]
Uniform asymptotic growth of symbolic powers (Robert Walker, University of Michigan)
Uniform asymptotic growth of symbolic powers (Robert Walker, University of Michigan)
Algebraic geometry (AG) is a major generalization of linear algebra which is fairly influential in mathematics. Since the 1980's with the development of computer algebra systems like Mathematica, AG has been leveraged in areas of STEM as diverse as statistics, robotic kinematics, computer science/geometric modeling, and mirror symmetry. Part one of my talk will be a […]
Saving Bats from Fungal Diseases with Linear Algebra (Nina Fefferman, U of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Saving Bats from Fungal Diseases with Linear Algebra (Nina Fefferman, U of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Abstract: Bats in North America have been dying off due to the invasion of a fungal disease (White Nose Syndrome). In this talk, I'll present a very simple linear algebraic model to predict the magnitude of the die-offs. By comparing these models to some data about actual bat survival, my collaborator and I also hypothesized […]
GEMS Workshop: Exploring the fascinating world of prime numbers, Part I with Professor Adolfo Rumbos, from Pomona College.
GEMS Workshop: Exploring the fascinating world of prime numbers, Part I with Professor Adolfo Rumbos, from Pomona College.
TOPIC: Exploring the fascinating world of prime numbers, Part I The study of patterns in the sequence of prime numbers has fascinated mathematicians for centuries. Are there formulas that generate prime numbers? Are there patterns in the distribution of prime numbers and the distribution of gaps between consecutive primes? In this series of two workshops, beginning […]