• 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 of nature as the proper path to the advancement of knowledge and the preservation of civic peace. Mathematics, while admired, was also viewed with suspicion, […]

  • 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 […]