• Analysis seminar: Stephan Ramon Garcia (Pomona College)

    Estella 2131, Pomona College 610 N College Ave, Claremont, United States

    Title: What can chicken McNuggets tell us about symmetric functions, positive polynomials, random norms, and AF algebras? Abstract: Numerical semigroups are combinatorial objects that lead to deep and subtle questions. With tools from complex, harmonic, and functional analysis, probability theory, algebraic combinatorics, and computer-aided design, we answer virtually all asymptotic questions about factorization lengths in […]

  • GEMS October 5th Session

    Harvey Mudd College at the Shanahan Teaching and Learning Center 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United States

    Title:  How to use coins to make a 7-sided die Abstract:  Certain dice are easier to make than others.  There is the standard 6-sided die, but 4-sided, 8-sided, 10-sided, 12-sided, and 20-sided are also very common.  What isn't so common is a 7-sided die.  Here Dr. Mark Huber from Claremont McKenna College will talk about […]

  • Analysis Seminar: Domains of Quantum Metrics on AF algebras (Katrine von Bornemann Hjelmborg, University of Southern Denmark (SDU))

    Estella 2131, Pomona College 610 N College Ave, Claremont, United States

    Title: Domains of Quantum Metrics on AF algebras Abstract: Given a compact quantum metric space (A, L), we prove that the domain of L coincides with A if and only if A is finite-dimensional. Intuitively, this should allow for different quantum metrics with distinct domains when A is infinite-dimensional, and we show how to explicitly […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]