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SUMMARY:Prof. Satyan Devadoss
DESCRIPTION:Title: Unsolved Mathematics at Burning Man \nAbstract: Rising 12 feet tall with an 18-foot wingspan\, a 2-ton unfolding dodecahedron comes to life at Burning Man\, the world’s most influential large-scale sculpture showcase.  The artwork is illuminated by 16\,000 LEDs\, requiring 6500 build-hours and $50\,000 in donated funds\, with an interior large enough to hold 15 people and fully-lined with massive mirrors. \nThis sculpture alludes to a tantalizing open problem in mathematics on unfolding polyhedra\, tracing its origins back 500 years to the Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer.  We discuss the state-of-the-art for this geometric puzzle\, consider solutions to some higher-dimensional unfolding analogs\, and place this example in a larger quest to bring the edge of mathematical knowledge to the general public. \nProf. Devadoss is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science at University of San Diego.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/prof-satyan-devadoss/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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SUMMARY:Prof. Grigoriy Blekherman
DESCRIPTION:Title: Nonnegative Polynomials and Sums of Squares \nAbstract: Is x4-2x3+7x2-2x+1 nonnegative for any value of x? One way of showing that this holds is by writing x4-2x3+7x2-2x+1=1/2(x2-3x+1)2+1/2(x2+x+1)2. Studying the relationship between non-negativity and sums of squares has a distinguished history in mathematics starting with work of David Hilbert and Hilbert’s 17th problem. I will discuss the history and some modern applications of sums of squares in optimization and combinatorics. \nProf. Blekherman is on the Mathematics faculty at Georgia Tech; he also is an advocate for Georgia Tech’s internationally renown Algorithms\, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO) graduate program.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/prof-grigoriy-blekherman/
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SUMMARY:Moody Lecture: Prof. Nadia Abuelezam
DESCRIPTION:Title: Injustice\, Inequity\, and Inequality: Lessons at the Intersection of Mathematics\, Epidemiology\, and Racism \nRegistration information for this talk at: https://www.hmc.edu/mathematics/moody-lecture-series/ \nAbstract:The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed existing health inequities for communities of color in the United States. Racism is a known structural cause of these health inequities. Counterfactuals are essential to our understanding of causal relationships in epidemiology\, but how do you formulate a counterfactual for racism? This talk will explore the basis for counterfactual thinking in epidemiology and the ways in which we need to “re-imagine” counterfactuals to address one of society’s longest standing issues: racism. \nNadia N. Abuelezam\, Sc.D. is an epidemiologist and assistant professor at the Connell School of Nursing. Dr. Abuelezam was trained in infectious disease epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 2009 with a B.S. in Mathematical Biology. \nThe Harvey Mudd College Department of Mathematics established the Moody Lecture Series in honor and memory of Michael Moody\, who chaired the department from 1996-2002.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/moody-lecture-prof-nadia-abuelezam/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Andrew Bernoff":MAILTO:ajb@hmc.edu
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SUMMARY:Prof. Stephan Ramon Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Title: Combinatorics and the Kitchen Sink \nAbstract:  Numerical semigroups are simple combinatorial objects that lead to deep and subtle questions.  We answer in one fell swoop virtually all asymptotic questions about factorization lengths in numerical semigroups.  Surprisingly\, this uses tools from complex\, harmonic\, and functional analysis\, probability theory\, algebraic combinatorics\, and computer-aided design!  Our results yield uncannily accurate predictions that agree with numerical computations\, along with some totally unexpected byproducts. \nThis work was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-1800123.  Joint work with A. Böttcher\, M. Omar\, C.O’Neill\, and Pomona undergraduate students T. Wesley (’21) and S.Yih (’18). \nProf. Garcia is the W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/prof-stephan-ramon-garcia/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Andrew Bernoff":MAILTO:ajb@hmc.edu
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