Colloquium

Title: Experimental Knot Music Abstract: In knot theory, there are algebraic structures we can use to distinguish different types of knots and links. In this talk we will ask an […]

Title: Space vectors forming rational angles Abstract: We classify all possible configurations of vectors in three-dimensional space with the property that any two of the vectors form an angle whose […]

4:20 pm Title: Methodology of Global Sensitivity Analysis for Determination of Important Parameters in a Mathematical Model Presenter: An Do (CGU) 4:30 pm Title: Using Data Science to gain insights […]

4:20 Title: Nested Links, Linking Matrices, and Crushtaceans Presenter: Madeline Brown (Scripps) 4:30 Title: Computing Cube Decisions for Backgammon Endgame Positions Presenter: Mathus Leungpathomaram (HMC) 4:40 Title: The Limiting Spectral […]

4:20pm Title: Measuring Publication Bias in Foreign Language Editions of Russian State-Owned Media Company RT Presenter: Benjamin Figueroa (CMC) 4:30pm Title:Multilingual Emoticon Prediction of Tweets about COVID-19 Presenter: Stefanos Stoikos […]

Title: A competent translation/a pitiful bungle: The Foundations of Geometry Abstract: David Hilbert’s Grundlagen der Geometrie is a rare example of a historical mathematics text that is still profitably read […]

Title: Unsolved Mathematics at Burning Man Abstract: 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 […]

Title: Nonnegative Polynomials and Sums of Squares Abstract: 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 […]

Title: Injustice, Inequity, and Inequality: Lessons at the Intersection of Mathematics, Epidemiology, and Racism Registration information for this talk at: https://www.hmc.edu/mathematics/moody-lecture-series/ Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed existing health inequities for […]

Title: Combinatorics and the Kitchen Sink Abstract: Numerical semigroups are simple combinatorial objects that lead to deep and subtle questions. We answer in one fell swoop virtually all asymptotic questions […]

Title: Training dynamical systems to predict their input Abstract: Evolved systems seem to predict their environment. Even bacteria can implicitly predict future concentrations of scarce sugar or antibiotics, and emerging […]

Title: Sea star locomotion Abstract: The oral surface of sea stars (starfish) is lined with arrays of tube feet that enable them to achieve highly controlled locomotion on various terrains […]