CCMS Colloquium invites you to a talk by Andrew Fiss (Michigan Technological University) Title: “Singing American Math: College Traditions from Book Burnings to Observatory Parties, 1880s-1920s" Abstract: “Singing Math” is a practice that linked American colleges of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A part of broader college singing traditions, it stood apart because of its […]
Abstract: Consider n independent, biased coins, each with a known probability of heads. Presented with an ordering of these coins, flip (i.e., toss) each coin once, in that order, until we have observed both a head and a tail, or flipped all coins. The Unanimous Vote problem asks us to find the ordering that minimizes […]
Many aggregation problems ask us to turn individual judgments into a single collective outcome. In this talk, we model each voter’s input as a relation on a set of alternatives, allowing pairwise comparisons to include strict preferences, ties, or incomparability. This perspective gives a common framework for median procedures and scoring methods, including several familiar […]
Topology, akin to geometry, delves into the study of the shapes and structures of mathematical spaces, ranging from simple surfaces to intricate collections of functions and objects. In recent years, […]
