• Frequentist Model Averaging in the Generalized Multinomial Logit Model (Prof. Tonia Zeng)

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

    Title: Frequentist Model Averaging in the Generalized Multinomial Logit Model Speaker: Tonia Zeng, Applied Business Sciences and Economics, University of La Verne Abstract: The generalized multinomial logit (GMNL) model accommodates scale heterogeneity to the random parameters logit (RPL) model. It has been often used to study people's preferences and predict people's decisions in many areas, […]

  • 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 […]

  • Prof. Jack Wesley

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

    Speaker: Jack Wesley, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]