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Ken Millett (UCSB)

Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

Gordian Knots According to the legend of Phrygian Gordium, Alexander the Great cut the ``Gordian Knot’’ and eventually went on to rule Asia thereby fulfilling an ancient prophecy.  Where there are […]

Kenneth Millett (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

Gordian Knots According to the legend of Phrygian Gordium, Alexander the Great cut the ``Gordian Knot’’ and eventually went on to rule Asia thereby fulfilling an ancient prophecy.  Where there are […]

Nano Knot theory, methods to study tiny knot in nature

Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMC

Knotting in living organisms is a feature that is visible to the careful observer of biological life.  Since the 1970’s, with the increasing power of electron microscopes, scientists have been able […]

Discrepancy theory and related questions (Dmitriy Bilyk, University of Minnesota)

Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

The talk will concentrate on open questions related to the optimal bounds for the discrepancy of an $N$-point set in the $d$-dimensional unit cube. The so-called star-discrepancy measures the difference between the actual and expected number of […]

Energy optimization on the sphere

Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMC

Many problems, arising in discrete and metric geometry, signal processing, physics, etc, can be reformulated as questions of optimizing discrete or continuous measures. We shall review some of such conjectures, […]

Applied Math Talk: Approaches to modeling dispersal and swarm behavior at multiple scales given by Prof. Christopher Strickland ( The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, California

Biological invasions often have outsized consequences for the invaded ecosystem and represent an interesting challenge to model mathematically. Landscape heterogeneity, non-local or time-dependent spreading mechanisms, coarse data, and air or […]

(Cancelled!!) Applied Math Talk: Stable planar vegetation stripe patterns on sloped terrain in dryland ecosystems given by Prof. Paul Carter (University of Minnesota)

Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, California

In water-limited regions, competition for water resources results in the formation of vegetation patterns; on sloped terrain, one finds that the vegetation typically aligns in stripes or arcs. The dynamics […]

Finding bases of new infinite dimensional representations of $\mathfrak{osp}(1|2n)$ ( Dwight Williams, UT Arlington)

Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, California

The orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{osp}(1|2n)$ is rich in representation theory: while the finite dimensional $\mathfrak{osp}(1|2n)$-module category is semisimple, the study of infinite dimensional representations of $\mathfrak{osp}(1|2n)$ is wide open. In […]