• Arithmetical structures (Luis Garcia Puente, Colorado College)

    Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States

    An arithmetical structure on a finite, connected graph G without loops is given by an assignment of positive integers to the vertices such that, at each vertex, the integer there […]

  • Spinning switches on a wreath product (Peter Kagey, HMC)

    Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States

    This talk discusses a puzzle called “Spinning Switches,” based on a problem popularized by Martin Gardner in his February 1979 column of “Mathematical Games". This puzzle can be generalized to […]

  • On the geometry of lattice extensions (Max Forst, CGU)

    Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States

    Given a lattice L, an extension of L is a lattice M of strictly greater rank so that L is equal to the intersection of the subspace spanned by L […]

  • Properties of redistricting Markov chains (Sarah Cannon, CMC)

    Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States

    Markov chains have become widely-used to generate random political districting plans. These random districting plans can be used to form a baseline for comparison, and any proposed districting plans that differ significantly from this baseline can be flagged as potentially gerrymandered. However, very little is rigorously known about these Markov chains - Are they irreducible? […]

  • A tale of two worlds: parking functions & reduction algebras (Dwight Anderson Williams II, Pomona)

    Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States

    "A Tale of Two Cities" is a novel told in three books/parts. Here we describe three projects related both to published work and ongoing pieces: PROJECT 1: In the world of combinatorics, parking functions are combinatorial objects arising from the situation of parking cars under a parking strategy. In this part of the talk, we […]