Refinements of metrics (Wai Yan Pong, CSUDH)
I will talk about a few graph-theoretic metrics then introduce the concept of refinements on a class of functions that include all metrics. As a case study, we will construct various […]
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Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States
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Reasoning about Liability of Intelligent Agents ( Naumov, CMC)
Shanahan B460, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United StatesAbstract: As intelligent agents assume larger role in our daily lives, reasoning by humans about liability of such agents as well as reasoning by the intelligent agents themselves about liability […]
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Applied Math Talk: Repurposing FDA-approved drugs as host-oriented therapies against infectious diseases (Prof. Mikhail Martchenko, KGI)
Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CaliforniaThe traditional method of treating most human diseases is to direct a therapy against targets in the host patient, whereas conventional therapies against infectious diseases are directed against the pathogen. […]
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Fibonacci and Lucas analogues of binomial coefficients and what they count (Curtis Bennett, CSULB)
Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesA Fibonomial is what is obtained when you replace each term of the binomial coefficients $ {n \choose k}$ by the corresponding Fibonacci number. For example, the Fibonomial $${ 6\brace […]
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On the interplay of functional analysis and operator theory (Puig de Dios, UCR)
Shanahan B460, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United StatesAbstract: We overview some basic and striking facts concerning the theory of hypercyclic operators (considered to be born in 1982): 1. Hypercyclicity is a purely infinite-dimensional phenomenon: no finite dimensional […]
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Models of Biological Tissue Electrostatics and Molecular Transport (Jim Sterling, KGI)
Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CaliforniaIn this presentation, some fundamentals of electrostatics in biology will be discussed with focus on the fact that most biological macromolecules including nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and proteins are negatively-charged. Electroneutrality requires cations to move toward the macromolecules where they both screen and bind to the negatively-charged groups. An important class of mathematical models of species-flux […]
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Matrix multiplication: the hunt for $\omega$ (Mark Huber, CMC)
Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesFor centuries finding the determinant of a matrix was considered to be something that took $\Theta(n^3)$ steps. Only in 1969 did Strassen discover that there was a faster method. In […]
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A General Bayesian Discrete Time Survival Model (King, CPP)
Shanahan B460, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United StatesAbstract: "We present a general Bayesian statistical model for discrete time, discrete state space stochastic processes. Applications include the modeling of recurrent and episodic disease processes, such as episodes of […]
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Geometry of quotient varieties and the algebra of conformal blocks (Han-Bom Moon Fordham University)
Roberts North 104, CMC 320 E. 9th St., Claremont, CA, United StatesAn important question in classical representation theory is when the tensor product of two irreducible representations has another representation as a factor. In this talk, I will introduce a quantum generalization of this question and explain how we may relate this question to geometry of quotients of certain complex manifolds. This is joint work with […]
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GEMS Workshop: “Graphs, matrices, and recurrences” with Professor Lucas Bang, from Harvey Mudd College
Shanahan 1480, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United StatesTOPIC: Graphs, matrices, and recurrences Abstract: In mathematics, we are often surprised to find that problems that look very different are actually the same problem in a different guise! In this seminar, we will build on the previous discussions about graph theory and describe how other areas of math are closely related to graphs. Specifically, […]
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Applied Math Talk: Solving Complex Public Health Problems—Cancer, Obesity and Aging (Jessica Dehart, CGU)
Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CaliforniaAbstract: Remember smoking? What’s the new public health problem? In the US, we are currently entangled within three converging and intertwined complex problems: Cancer, Obesity, Aging. There are over 16 million cancer survivors living in the US as we speak. Over 50% of our society is overweight and/obese. Our society is aging and the age […]
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Chow rings of heavy/light Hassett spaces via tropical geometry (Dagan Karp, HMC)
Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesIn this talk, I will try to give a fun introduction to tropical geometry and Hassett spaces, and show how tropical geometry can be used to compute the Chow rings of Hassett spaces combinatorially. This is joint work with Siddarth Kannan and Shiyue Li.