• Prof. Josiah Park

    Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College, and Zoom Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Packing lines, minimizing energy, and applications to communications Speaker: Josiah Park, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University Abstract: Structured geometric point sets play important roles in coding theory, mathematical biology, computational chemistry, wireless communications, compressed sensing, and 'big data' applications due to their often desirable statistical properties for measurement and transmission. Best packings of […]

  • Prof. Edouard Oudet

    Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College, and Zoom Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Shape Optimization: Old and New Speaker: Edouard Oudet,  LJK, Université Grenoble Alpes Abstract: We first introduce what is shape Optimization and the most classical problems of the field like the […]

  • Prof. Kate Petersen

    Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College, and Zoom Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Decision Problems in Low-Dimensional Topology Speaker: Kate Petersen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, CSU, University of Minnesota Duluth Abstract: Due to Perelman’s proof of the Geometrization conjecture every closed 3-manifold can […]

  • Prof. Jack Wesley

    Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College, and Zoom Claremont, CA, United States

    Speaker: Jack Wesley, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis

  • No-arbitrage Pricing in a Market for Position on a Multilane Freeway (Prof. Henry Schellhorn, CGU)

    Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: No-arbitrage Pricing in a Market for Position on a Multilane Freeway Speaker: Henry Schellhorn, Department of Mathematics, Claremont Graduate University Abstract:  We introduce a trading mechanism allowing cars to change position in a multilane congested freeway by doing peer-to-peer transactions. For the car initiating the operation, or incoming car, the goal can be to […]

  • Building trustworthy data-driven epidemiological models: Application to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City (Prof. Joan Ponce, Arizona State University)

    Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Building trustworthy data-driven epidemiological models: Application to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City Speaker: Joan Ponce, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University Abstract: Epidemiological models can provide the […]

  • Watch your step: Modeling on Time Scales (Prof. Raegan Higgins, Texas Tech University)

    Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Watch your step: Modeling on Time Scales Speaker: Raegan Higgins, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas Tech University Abstract: Generally, differential and difference equations are used in the mathematical modeling of physical systems. Our modeling approach uses dynamic equations on time scales. A time scale T is an arbitrary, nonempty, closed subset of the […]

  • Sometimes Pi Equals 4 (Prof. Cornelia van Cott, University of San Francisco)

    Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Sometimes Pi Equals 4 Speaker: Cornelia van Cott, Department of Mathematics, University of San Francisco Abstract: Most of your mathematical life, you've known that pi is a number somewhere between 3.1 and 3.2. But if we exchange the usual notion of distance in two-dimensional space for others, pi can be any of an infinite number […]

  • How Many Cards Can Avoid a SET? (Prof. Mohamed Omar, Harvey Mudd College)

    Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: How Many Cards Can Avoid a SET? Speaker: Mohamed Omar, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College Abstract: SET is a popular real-time card game where players search for special triples of cards among a table of cards that are face-up. A common issue when playing the game is not having a SET among theface-up cards. What is […]