The Algebra/Number Theory/Combinatorics Seminar of the Claremont Colleges meets on Tuesdays, 12:15 – 1:10 PM. For the AY 2026-2027 we will be meeting in person in Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room) at Pomona College.
For more information about the seminar, or to suggest speakers, contact Lenny Fukshansky (email: lenny at cmc dot edu) or Gizem Karaali (email: Gizem dot Karaali at pomona dot edu).
Kloosterman sums are explicit exponential sums which occur in several contexts in number theory and arithmetic geometry. Bessel functions encode a great deal of representation-theoretic information about finite groups of […]
The Jones Polynomial is an important invariant of knots with applications in physics, quantum computation and more. In this talk I will introduce a family of generalizations of the Jones […]
