• The 47 Lecture: Tim Chartier (Davidson College)

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

    The 47 Lecture, an annual public event sponsored by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Pomona College, will take place on Thursday and Friday! More information can be found here:

  • The 47 Lecture: Tim Chartier (Davidson College)

    The 47 Lecture, an annual public event sponsored by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Pomona College, will take place on Thursday and Friday! More information can be found here:

  • Applied Math Seminar: Ruijun Zhao (Claremont McKenna College)

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

    Title: Mathematical models studying the effectiveness of control strategies for malaria Abstract: According to the 2023 World Malaria Report: Nearly half the world's population lives in areas at risk of malaria transmission in 85 countries and territories. In 2022, malaria caused an estimated 249 million clinical episodes, and 608,000 deaths. In this talk, we will […]

  • Making sandwiches: a novel invariant in D-module theory (David Lieberman, HMC)

    Estella 2113

    In the field of commutative algebra, the principal object of study is (unsurprisingly) commutative algebras. A somewhat unintuitive fact is that results about commutative algebras can be gleaned from an associated non-commutative algebra whose generators are very analytic in nature. This object is called the ring of differential operators, often denoted by D. In a sense gives […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Will Hoffer (UC Riverside)

    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: Will Hoffer (UC Riverside) Title: Tube Formulae for Fractal Snowflakes Abstract: Fractals like the von Koch snowflake have rough boundaries, often having nowhere defined tangent lines/spaces. However, there is a tool useful for probing the edges of such fractals: tubular neighborhoods. In this […]

  • Frameworks in Motion: Design, Theory, and Fabrication (Jessica Sidman, Amherst College

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

    Speaker: Jessica Sidman, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amherst College Title: Frameworks in Motion: Design, Theory, and Fabrication Abstract: What do your umbrella, a folding gate, and a scissor lift have in common? They all involve frameworks made of rigid parts attached at flexible joints and are designed to move with one degree of freedom. […]

  • Sequences with identical autocorrelation spectra (Daniel Katz, Cal State Northridge)

    Estella 2113

    In this talk, we explore sequences and their autocorrelation functions. Knowing the autocorrelation function of a sequence is equivalent to knowing the magnitude of its Fourier transform.  Resolving the lack of phase information is called the phase problem.  We say that two sequences are equicorrelational to mean that they have the same aperiodic autocorrelation function.  […]