• CCMS Student Research Poster Session Fall 2023

    Estella Courtyard 610 N College Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    The Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences (CCMS) Math Colloquium series begins with a student research poster session, showcasing the mathematical work of all students at the Claremont Colleges. Please […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Robert Bowden (HMC)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Chebyshev Threadings in Skein Algebras for Punctured Surfaces Abstract: Skein algebras are algebras of links in a surface quotiented by diagram-based equivalence relations based on the Kauffman bracket. In […]

  • Diving into Math with Emmy Noether

    Benson Auditorium 1050 N Mills Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Diving into Math with Emmy Noether Starring: Anita Zieher; Director: Sandra Schueddekopf Abstract: A theatre performance by Portraittheater Vienna in co-operation with Freie Universität Berlin about the life of […]

  • History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar: Amir Alexander (UCLA)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    "The Sceptical Mathematician: How John Wallis Saved Mathematics for the Royal Society."   Abstract: The members of the “Invisible College” and the early Royal Society championed an experimental approach to the study […]

  • Applied Math Seminar: Michael Murray (UCLA)

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

    Title: Towards Understanding the Success of First Order Methods in Training Mildly Overparameterized Networks Abstract: For most problems of interest the loss landscape of a neural network is non-convex and […]

  • Biquandle power brackets (Sam Nelson, CMC)

    Roberts North 102, CMC

    Biquandle brackets are skein invariants of biquandle-colored knots, with skein coefficients that are functions of the colors at a crossing. Biquandle power brackets take this idea a step further with […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Reginald Anderson (CMC)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Cellular resolutions of the diagonal and exceptional collections for toric Deligne-Mumford stacks Abstract: Beilinson gave a resolution of the diagonal for complex projective space which yields a strong, full exceptional […]

  • p-Norm Approval Voting (Professor Michael Orrison, Harvey Mudd College)

    Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: p-Norm Approval Voting Speaker: Michael Orrison, Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College Abstract: Approval voting is a relatively simple voting procedure: Given a set of candidates, each voter chooses […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Reginald Anderson (CMC)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Cellular resolutions of the diagonal and exceptional collections for toric Deligne-Mumford stacks (Continued) Abstract: Beilinson gave a resolution of the diagonal for complex projective space which yields a strong, full […]