• 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 […]

  • 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 be decomposed into geometric pieces. These pieces exhibit one of Thurston’s eight model geometries.  This gives rise to the natural question: Given a 3-manifold how (quickly) […]

  • 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 dynamic evolution of a pandemic but they are based on many assumptions and parameters that have to be adjusted over the time the pandemic lasts. […]

  • The mathematics of neural networks: recent advances, thoughts, and the path forward (Prof. Mikhail Belkin, UCSD)

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

    Title: The mathematics of neural networks: recent advances, thoughts, and the path forward Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Belkin, Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego Abstract: The recent remarkable practical achievements of neural networks have far outpaced our theoretical understanding of their properties. Yet, it is hard to imagine that progress can continue indefinitely, without […]

  • Quantum chromatic numbers of products of quantum graphs (Prof. Rolando De Santiago, Purdue University)

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

    Title: Quantum chromatic numbers of products of quantum graphs Speaker: Rolando De Santiago, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University Abstract: Quantum graphs are an operator space generalization of classical graphs that have emerged in different branches of mathematics including operator theory, non-commutative topology and quantum information theory. We provide a brief introduction to quantum graphs and […]

  • Mathematical model for HIV-1 infection with stem cell and immune-therapy (Prof. Noufe Aljahdaly, King Abdulaziz University / CGU)

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

    Title: Mathematical model for HIV-1 infection with stem cell and immune-therapy Speaker: Noufe Aljahdaly, Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaziz University / CGU Abstract: The AIDS is a chronic disease. Its most common treatment is the antiretroviral therapy (cART) and the virus can be more effected if the patients stop using cART. The other problem is […]

  • 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 […]