The 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 […]
Prof. Edouard Oudet
Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College, and Zoom Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Shape Optimization: Old and New Speaker: Edouard Oudet, LJK, Université Grenoble Alpes Abstract: We first introduce what is shape Optimization and the most classical problems of the field like the […]
Norms on self-adjoint symmetric tensor power of linear operators on Hilbert spaces (Yunied Puig de Dios, CMC)
Roberts North 105, CMC 320 E. 9th St., Claremont, CA, United StatesWe introduce a family of norms on the space of self-adjoint trace class symmetric tensor power of linear operators acting on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. Our technique is to extend […]
Applied Math Seminar: Jahrul Alum (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Shanahan 2407 at Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Data-driven large eddy simulation of atmospheric turbulence Abstract: Over the last few years, machine learning has been critical in science and engineering and emerged as a data-driven turbulence model. […]
Minimal Mahler measure in number fields (Kate Petersen, University of Minnesota Duluth)
Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United StatesThe Mahler measure of a polynomial is the modulus of its leading term multiplied by the moduli of all roots outside the unit circle. The Mahler measure of an algebraic […]
Prof. Kate Petersen
Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College, and Zoom Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Decision Problems in Low-Dimensional Topology Speaker: Kate Petersen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, CSU, University of Minnesota Duluth Abstract: Due to Perelman’s proof of the Geometrization conjecture every closed 3-manifold can […]
Confronting the Legacy of the Human Betterment Foundation at Caltech
Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United StatesThe Human Betterment Foundation was a pro-eugenics think-tank operating in the 1930s and early 1940s out of Pasadena, California. Its aim was to influence public and medical opinion in favor […]
Applied Math Seminar: Junshan Lin (Auburn)
Shanahan 2407 at Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Scattering Resonances Through Subwavelength Holes and Their Applications in Imaging and Sensing Abstract: The so-called extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) through metallic nanoholes has triggered extensive research in modern plasmonics […]
Applied Math Seminar: Juergen Kritschgau (Carnegie Mellon)
Shanahan 2407 at Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Using Mutual Information of Hypergraph Compressions for Clustering Abstract: Hypergraphs are often used to represent higher order observed relationships between subjects of study. In particular, the vertices of a […]