Week of Events
Job Talk – Nicole Fider, UC Irvine
Job Talk – Nicole Fider, UC Irvine
Candidate for Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Scripps College A surprising application of mathematics: How to name a color Your brain likes patterns and categories; by grouping related ideas together, it can store and recall information quickly. Real-life continuous domains (like time and taste) are inherently composed of infinitely many points of information, which your brain […]
Knowledge, strategies, and know-how (Pavel Naumov, CMC)
Knowledge, strategies, and know-how (Pavel Naumov, CMC)
An agent comes to a fork in a road. There is a sign that says that one of the two roads leads to prosperity and another to death. The agent must take the fork, but she does not know which road leads where. Does the agent have a strategy to get to prosperity? On one […]
Personal Perspectives on m-ary Partitions (James Sellers, Penn State)
Personal Perspectives on m-ary Partitions (James Sellers, Penn State)
Abstract: A great deal of my research journey has involved the study of m-ary partitions. These are integer partitions wherein each part must be a power of a fixed integer m > 1. Beginning in the late 1960s, numerous mathematicians (including Churchhouse, Andrews, Gupta, and Rodseth) studied divisibility properties of m-ary partitions. In this talk, I will discuss work I completed […]
A nonorientable version of the Milnor Conjecture (Cornelia A. Van Cott, USF)
A nonorientable version of the Milnor Conjecture (Cornelia A. Van Cott, USF)
In 1968, Milnor famously conjectured that the smooth 4-genus of the torus knot T(p,q) is given by (p-1)(q-1)/2. This conjecture was first verified by Kronheimer and Mrowka in 1993 and has received several other proofs since then. In this talk, we discuss a nonorientable analogue of this conjecture, first formulated by Josh Batson. We prove […]
Uniform Convergence: A One-Woman Play
Uniform Convergence: A One-Woman Play
Uniform Convergence is a one-woman play, written and performed by mathematics graduate student Corrine Yap. It juxtaposes the stories of two women trying to find their place in a white male-dominated academic world. The first is of historical Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, who was lauded as a pioneer for women in science but only after […]