• 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 fixed amount of weight, and you are trying to fill it with several types of objects of different weights and prices. The goal is to […]

  • GEMS February 1st Session

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

    This GEMS session will be facilitated by Professor Qidi Peng and William Wu from Claremont Graduate University. Title: The Beauty of Fractal Geometry Abstract:  We will introduce fractal geometries, which are described in continuous but nowhere differential functions. We will tell the students where to find these geometries in the nature and how to describe them using […]

  • Quandle cohomology quiver representations (Sam Nelson, CMC)

    Estella 2113

    Quandles are algebraic structures encoding the motion of knots through space. Quandle cocycle quivers categorify the quandle cocycle invariant. In this talk we will define a quiver representation associated to […]

  • CCMS Colloquium: (Hrushikesh Mhaskar, Claremont Grad Uni.)

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

    Speaker: Hrushikesh Mhaskar, Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics, Claremont Graduate University Title: Local Analysis Of Global Data Abstract: For a periodic integrable function f, the definition of Fourier coefficients requires the values of f on the entire period. We refer to such data as “global” data. Even though the sequence of Fourier coefficients determines f […]

  • On the illumination problem for convex sets (Lenny Fukshansky, CMC)

    Estella 2113

    Let K be a compact convex set in the Euclidean space R^n. How many lights are needed to illuminate its boundary? A classical conjecture of Boltyanskii (1960) asserts that 2^n lights are sufficient to illuminate any such set K. While this is still open, an earlier observation of Hadwiger (1945) guarantees that if K has […]

  • CCMS Colloquium: Stochastic Agent-Based Models in Mathematical Biology (Nabil Fadai, University of Nottingham)

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

    Speaker: Nabil Fadai, Professor of Mathematical Biology, University of Nottingham Title: Stochastic Agent-Based Models in Mathematical Biology Abstract: In the last decade, there has been a movement to describe biological and social systems via agent-based models, which track individual agents (organisms, cells, people) and their environment through a set of deterministic and probabilistic rules. In this talk, […]