• NO CCMS Colloquium: Pi Day at CMC

    Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States

    No lecture today.   Quantitative and Computing Lab (QCL) Math Club Pi Day celebration at Claremont McKenna College at Kravis Lower Court from 11am to 12:30pm.  

  • Computing certificates for complete positivity (Achill Schürmann, University of Rostock)

    Estella 2099

    A key problem in computer proofs based on solutions from copositive optimization, is checking whether or not a given quadratic form is completely positive or not. In this talk we describe the first known algorithm for arbitrary rational input. It is based on a suitable adaption of Voronoi's Algorithm and the underlying theory from positive definite […]

  • Analysis Seminar: Metrics on quantum channels from noncommutative geometry (Tron Omland, University of Oslo and Norwegian National Security Authority)

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

    Abstract: We study metrics on completely positive maps, and in particular on quantum channels, induced by seminorms from noncommutative geometry. Using an infinite-dimensional analogue of the Choi–Jamiołkowski correspondence, we construct […]

  • Central moments of autocorrelation demerit factors of binary sequences (Daniel Katz, CSUN)

    Estella 2099

    A low autocorrelation binary sequence of length $\ell$ is an $\ell$-tuple of $+1$s and $-1$s that does not strongly resemble any translate of itself.  Such sequences are used in communications and remote sensing for synchronization and ranging, where translation represents time delay.  A single number that indicates how good a sequence is for such purposes, […]

  • CCMS Colloquium: Puttipong Pongtanapaisan (Pitzer)

    Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States

    CCMS Colloquium invites you to a talk by Puttipong Pongtanapaisan (Pitzer) Title:  Derivatives and the Shape of Graphs Abstract:  Reading the title of this talk, perhaps you think you are going to hear about Calculus I. I stole the title from a section of Stewart’s popular calculus book. But actually, I am going to talk […]

  • GEMS April 4th Session

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

    This GEMS session will be facilitated by Evan Rosenman from Claremont McKenna College Title: Fair Votes? The Mathematics of Elections and Redistricting Abstract: How do we know if an election is fair? […]

  • Tropical linear series and matroids (Dagan Karp, HMC)

    Estella 2099

    In this talk, I'll attempt to give a friendly introduction to tropical linear series and explore their relationship to matroid theory. Along the way, we'll stop to admire the beautiful view from enumerative geometry and combinatorics. This is joint work with Chih-Wei Chang, Matthew Dupraz, Hernan Iriarte, David Jensen, Sam Payne, and Jidong Wang, and also with […]