We welcome all undergraduate/graduate students and faculty to attend the Topology Seminar! Speaker: Claudio Gomez-Gonzales (Carleton College - UC Irvine) Title: How hard could it be? A tour of resolvent degree Abstract: Solving algebraic equations are among the oldest problems in mathematics. In this talk, we offer a concrete, visual, and historical introduction to resolvent […]
Speaker: Dorothy Buck, Professor of Mathematics, Duke University Title: Molecular Pasta: Complex Entanglement in Biopolymers Abstract: If you’ve cooked spaghetti, you’ve probably noticed how the pasta becomes entangled in the pot (especially in a small volume of water) or in your bowl afterwards. This is a macro example of what I like to think about: […]
Speaker: Iris Clever, University of Chicago Title: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity: From Skull Science to Biometrics Abstract: In this presentation, I uncover an overlooked genealogy of biometrics, tracing it back to early 20th-century race science and the rise of statistical thinking about human identity. Before biometrics became a technology of controlling human identity, […]
Title: Designing Robust Networks of Coupled Phase Oscillators with Applications to the High-Voltage Electric Grid Abstract: A network is any collection of objects, called nodes, in which some pairs of […]
We welcome all undergraduate/graduate students and faculty to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Heather Lee Title: Some examples of homological mirror symmetry Abstract: Mirror symmetry is a duality phenomenon between symplectic geometry and complex geometry. The homological mirror symmetry (HMS) conjecture was originally formulated by M. Kontsevich in 1994 to fully capture this phenomenon for mirror […]
Speaker: Kobi Abayomi, Head of Science, Gumbel Demand Acceleration Title: Sound Information is All You Need Abstract: It turns out that affinity for a song is predictable from its sound. We explore the statistical predictability of aggregate song demand from an informational representation. ___________________________ Bio: Dr. Abayomi is the Head of Science for Gumbel Demand […]
The classical oddtown and eventown problems involve a collection of subsets of a finite set with an odd (resp. even) number of elements such that all pairwise intersections contain an […]
We welcome all undergraduate/graduate students and faculty to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Rhea Palak Bakshi (University of California Santa Barbara) Title: The skein module of the connected sum of two copies of L(0,1) Abstract: Abstract: Skein modules were introduced by Jozef H. Przytycki, and independently by Vladmimor Turaev, as generalisations of the Jones, Kauffman bracket, […]
We will conclude the CCMS Fall Colloquium Series with a Pre-Colloquium Reception followed by a talk (details below). Pre-Colloquium Reception will begin at 3:30pm with foods and drink in the Estella Atrium. Following the reception, the colloquium talk will start at 4:30pm (Notice the change in time.) _____________________ Speaker: Shahriar Shahriari, Professor of Mathematics and […]
This GEMS session will be facilitated by Professor Lenny Fukshansky from Claremont McKenna College. Title: From Knapsacks and Changing Coins to Geometry Abstract: Suppose you have a bag that can hold a fixed amount of weight, and you are trying to fill it with several types of objects of different weights and prices. The goal is to […]
Speaker: Daniel Zaharopol, Founder of Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM), (AoPSI) The Art of Problem Solving Initiative, Inc. Title: Math as the Gateway for STEM Achievement and Access: The […]
