Week of Events
Applied Math Talk: Solving Complex Public Health Problems—Cancer, Obesity and Aging (Jessica Dehart, CGU)
Applied Math Talk: Solving Complex Public Health Problems—Cancer, Obesity and Aging (Jessica Dehart, CGU)
Abstract: Remember smoking? What’s the new public health problem? In the US, we are currently entangled within three converging and intertwined complex problems: Cancer, Obesity, Aging. There are over 16 million cancer survivors living in the US as we speak. Over 50% of our society is overweight and/obese. Our society is aging and the age […]
Chow rings of heavy/light Hassett spaces via tropical geometry (Dagan Karp, HMC)
Chow rings of heavy/light Hassett spaces via tropical geometry (Dagan Karp, HMC)
In this talk, I will try to give a fun introduction to tropical geometry and Hassett spaces, and show how tropical geometry can be used to compute the Chow rings of Hassett spaces combinatorially. This is joint work with Siddarth Kannan and Shiyue Li.
Unravelling Biochemistry Mysteries: Knot Theory Applied to Biochemistry (Price, University of San Diego)
Unravelling Biochemistry Mysteries: Knot Theory Applied to Biochemistry (Price, University of San Diego)
Abstract: Mathematical modeling is an effective resource for biologists since it provides ways to simplify, study and understand the complex systems common in biology and biochemistry. Many mathematical tools can be applied to biological problems, some traditional and some more novel, all innovative. This presentation will review the mathematical tools that are used to model […]
Enhancements of the quandle coloring invariant for knots (Karina Cho, Harvey Mudd College)
Enhancements of the quandle coloring invariant for knots (Karina Cho, Harvey Mudd College)
Quandles are algebraic structures that play nicely with knots. The multiplicative structure of finite quandles gives us a way to "color" knot diagrams, and the number of such colorings for a given knot and quandle is called the quandle coloring invariant. We strengthen this invariant by examining the relationships between the colorings, which are given […]