• Claremont History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar: Iris Clever (UChicago)

    Founders Room, Pitzer College

    Speaker: Iris Clever, University of Chicago Title: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity: From Skull Science to Biometrics Abstract: In this presentation, I uncover an overlooked genealogy of biometrics, tracing it back to early 20th-century race science and the rise of statistical thinking about human identity. Before biometrics became a technology of controlling human identity, […]

  • Applied Math Seminar: Shriya Nagpal (Pitzer College)

    Emmy Noether Room, Estella 1021, Pomona College, 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Designing Robust Networks of Coupled Phase Oscillators with Applications to the High-Voltage Electric Grid Abstract: A network is any collection of objects, called nodes, in which some pairs of […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Heather Lee

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

    We welcome all undergraduate/graduate students and faculty to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Heather Lee Title: Some examples of homological mirror symmetry Abstract: Mirror symmetry is a duality phenomenon between symplectic geometry and complex geometry. The homological mirror symmetry (HMS) conjecture was originally formulated by M. Kontsevich in 1994 to fully capture this phenomenon for mirror […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Rhea Palak Bakshi (University of California, Santa Barbara)

    Estella 2099

    We welcome all undergraduate/graduate students and faculty to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Rhea Palak Bakshi (University of California Santa Barbara) Title: The skein module of the connected sum of two copies of L(0,1) Abstract: Abstract: Skein modules were introduced by Jozef H. Przytycki, and independently by Vladmimor Turaev, as generalisations of the Jones, Kauffman bracket, […]

  • GEMS December 7th Session

    Shanahan 1480, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United States

    This GEMS session will be facilitated by Professor Lenny Fukshansky from Claremont McKenna College. Title:  From Knapsacks and Changing Coins to Geometry Abstract:  Suppose you have a bag that can hold a […]