• Brain Imaging and Mathematical Modeling of Alzheimer’s Disease (Peter Hinow, U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

    Emmy Noether Room, Estella 1021, Pomona College, 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    A wide variety of medical imaging methods exist for research and diagnostic procedures on the Central Nervous System (CNS), among them Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Optical Imaging. Mathematical modeling and simulation contribute significantly to an improved understanding of image data and the intricate transport, diffusion, and metabolic processes in the brain. This is of […]

  • From the basics of extremal graph theory to bipartite Turan numbers of trees and star forests (Omid Khormali, HMC)

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    Extremal graph theory asks how many edges a graph can have while avoiding a given substructure. We will begin with a brief, accessible introduction to this area, before turning to a natural variant, the bipartite Turan number $(m,n;H)$, which restricts the host graph to be bipartite. This setting is especially natural when $H$ itself is […]

  • CCMS Colloquium: Stable Khovanov Homology for Torus Links — Christine Lee (Texas State University)

    Burkle 16, Claremont Graduate University 1021 N. Dartmouth Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Abstract: Stable Khovanov homology Kh(T(n, \infty)) is an algebraic limit of the Khovanov homology groups of torus links T(n, k) on a fixed number of strands n, when more and more full twists are added as k \to \infty. Stable Khovanov homology is intimately related to the Jones polynomial because it categorifies the Jones-Wenzl projector, […]

  • NT Learning Seminar — Functions Representing Primes (Joy Shin)

    NT Learning Seminar
    Burkle 12, Claremont Graduate University 1021 N. Dartmouth Ave., Claremont, United States

    We showcase Functions Which Represent Prime Numbers. Presented by Joy Shin. Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2032078 For questions about the event, please contact your NTLS Organizers: Maxwell Kooiker (Maxwell.Kooiker@cgu.edu) or Prof. Edray Goins (Edray.Goins@pomona.edu)

  • GEMS October 3rd Session

    Shanahan 3481, Harvey Mudd College 320 E. Foothill Blvd., Claremont, CA, United States

    This GEMS session will be facilitated by Professor Chiu-Yen Kao from Claremont McKenna College. Title: The Magic of 0s and 1s Abstract: Have you ever wondered how data in a computer is stored? In this talk, we'll crack open the binary numeral system, the simple code of 0s and 1s that represents everything on your […]

  • If a Statistical Model Predicts That Common Events Should Occur Only Once in 10,000 Elections, Maybe it’s the Wrong Model (Danny Ebanks, Cal Tech)

    Emmy Noether Room, Estella 1021, Pomona College, 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Political scientists forecast elections, not primarily to satisfy public interest, but to validate statistical models used for estimating quantities of scholarly interest. Although scholars have learned a great deal from […]

  • Permutation Jones Polynomials (Sam Nelson, CMC)

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    The Jones Polynomial is an important invariant of knots with applications in physics, quantum computation and more. In this talk I will introduce a family of generalizations of the Jones […]

  • NT Learning Seminar — Binary Quadratic Forms (Ethan Schlegel)

    NT Learning Seminar
    Burkle 12, Claremont Graduate University 1021 N. Dartmouth Ave., Claremont, United States

    We showcase Binary Quadratic Forms. Presented by Ethan Schlegel. Link: https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~apollack/9_305S_course_notes_binary_quadratic_forms.pdf For questions about the event, please contact your NTLS Organizers: Maxwell Kooiker (Maxwell.Kooiker@cgu.edu) or Prof. Edray Goins (Edray.Goins@pomona.edu)