• LA City Council Reform: A Statistical Study of Alternatives (Evan Rosenman & Sarah Cannon, Claremont McKenna College)

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

    Abstract: The 2022 Los Angeles City Council scandal intensified public demand for governance reform, leading to the creation of the Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission. The commission is now considering proposals from civic and academic groups. Major recommendations include: eliminating the automatic election of candidates who win a primary majority, expanding the size of the […]

  • A non-uniformly inner amenable group (Isaac Goldbring, UC Irvine)

    Estella 2099

    An inner amenable group is one in which there is a finitely additive conjugation-invariant probability measure on the non-identity elements.  In this talk, we show that inner amenability is not preserved under elementary equivalence.  As a result, we give the first example of a group that is inner amenable but not uniformly inner amenable.

  • NO CCMS Colloquium this Friday!

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

    We'll be back next week!

  • Graphical designs: combinatorics and applications (Catherine Babecki, Caltech)

    Estella 2099

    A graphical design is a quadrature rule for a graph inspired by classical numerical integration on the sphere. Broadly speaking, that means a graphical design is a relatively small subset of graph vertices chosen to capture the global behavior of functions from the vertex set to the real numbers. We first motivate and define graphical […]

  • Analysis seminar: Geometric classification problems with the Bergman metric (John Treuer, UCSD)

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

    Title: Geometric classification problems with the Bergman metric Abstract: One of the common problems in mathematics is the classification problem: When are two mathematical structures really the same? The classification problem appears throughout undergraduate mathematics courses in different forms. For example, in an abstract algebra course, one asks when are two groups isomorphic? In a […]

  • CCMS Colloquium: Robert Cass (CMC)

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

    CCMS Colloquium invites you to a talk by Assistant Professor of Mathematics Robert Cass of Claremont McKenna College: Title: An introduction to the Langlands program Abstract: Class field theory, which […]

  • Bounds and Extremal Examples for the Hot Spots Ratio (Alex Hsu, University of Washington)

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

    Abstract: The shape of the fluctuations as heat approaches equilibrium in an insulated body are governed by the first Neumann eigenfunction of the Laplacian. Rauch's hot spots conjecture states that the extrema of the first nontrivial Neumann Laplacian eigenfunction for a Lipschitz domain lies on the boundary. While this conjecture is false in general, its […]

  • Analysis seminar: Transfinite Apollonian metric (Zair Ibragimov, CSU Fullerton)

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

    Title: Transfinite Apollonian metric Abstract: The concept of transfinite diameter of compact sets in the complex plane was introduced by Fekete in 1923. It is a generalization of the standard diameter of sets and has found many applications in the study of conformal mappings. The Apollonian metric was introduced by A. Beardon in 1995 and […]

  • CCMS Colloquium: Ruby Kim (University of Michigan)

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

    CCMS Colloquium invites you to a talk by Ruby Kim (University of Michigan) Title: Mathematical Models of Circadian Rhythms and Seasonal Timing Abstract: The circadian clock shapes nearly 24-hour periodic rhythms […]

  • GEMS October 4th Session

    Shanahan B450, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, United States

    This GEMS session will be facilitated by Professor Chiu-Yen Kao from Claremont McKenna College. Title: Finding Your Optimal Paths Abstract: Path planning plays an important role in many aspects of […]

  • Modeling drug release for in vitro experiments (Minaya Villasana De Armas, Universidad Simon Bolivar)

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

    Abstract: It is common to use adjuvants in immunotherapeutic regimens to strengthen the immune response. However, multiple dosages are required making it inconvenient for the patient. Hydrogels have been proposed as a vehicle to administer adjuvant and antigen in a sustained slow release thus reducing the need for re-administration. In this instance, we use experimental […]