H.S.M. Coxeter’s Theory of Accessibility: A Narrative in the Language of Synthetic Projective Geometry (Elena Marchisotto, Cal State Northridge)
Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United StatesThe relation of accessible points in a projective incidence plane defined by Coxeter in the 1960s is the focus of my narrative. It reveals historical pathways bookending the 19th and […]
Applied Math Seminar: Susan Friedlander (USC)
Shanahan 2407 at Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Kolmogorov, Onsager and a Dyadic Model for Turbulence Abstract: We will briefly review Kolmogorov’s ( 41) theory of homogeneous turbulence and Onsager’s ( 49 ) conjecture that in 3-dimensional […]
Properties of redistricting Markov chains (Sarah Cannon, CMC)
Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United StatesMarkov chains have become widely-used to generate random political districting plans. These random districting plans can be used to form a baseline for comparison, and any proposed districting plans that […]
Frequentist Model Averaging in the Generalized Multinomial Logit Model (Prof. Tonia Zeng)
Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College, and Zoom Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: 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 […]
Applied Math Seminar: Anna Nelson (Duke)
Shanahan 2407 at Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Mathematical modeling of polymerization processes in physiology Abstract: Polymerization, or aggregation, is essential for many physiological systems. For example, the emergence of a fibrin polymer mesh during the formation of […]
A tale of two worlds: parking functions & reduction algebras (Dwight Anderson Williams II, Pomona)
Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States"A Tale of Two Cities" is a novel told in three books/parts. Here we describe three projects related both to published work and ongoing pieces: PROJECT 1: In the world […]
Prof. Josiah Park
Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College, and Zoom Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: 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 […]
GEMS November 5th Session
Shanahan 1480, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United StatesThe Sceptical Mathematician: How John Wallis Saved Mathematics for the Royal Society (Amir Alexander, UCLA)
Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United StatesThe members of the “Invisible College” and the early Royal Society championed an experimental approach to the study of nature as the proper path to the advancement of knowledge and […]
Applied Math Seminar: Angel Chavez (Pomona)
Shanahan 2407 at Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Randomized Sums of Graph Spectra Abstract: The adjacency matrix of an Erdős-Rényi-Gilbert graph is a random symmetric matrix whose entries are Bernoulli random variables. These entries, modulo the constraints […]
Factoring translates of polynomials (Arvind Suresh, University of Arizona – Tucson)
Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United StatesGiven a degree d polynomial f(x) in Q, consider the subset S_f of Q consisting of rational numbers t for which the translated polynomial f(x) - t factors completely in […]