Abstract: Modern machine learning is ultimately a simple process: We iteratively update the weights of machine learning models to minimize a problem-specific loss. When it works well, we deploy the model in human-facing domains like healthcare, finance, or the justice system. But even though we know how models are trained, we don't understand why they […]
It is a fundamental question to find rational solutions to a given system of polynomials, and in modern language this translates into finding rational points in algebraic varieties. It is already very deep for algebraic curves defined over Q. An intrinsic natural number associated with the curve, called its genus, plays an important role in […]
CCMS Colloquium invites you to a talk by Anna Ma (UCI) Title: Stochastic iterative methods for solving tensor linear systems Abstract: Solving linear systems is a crucial subroutine and challenge […]
This GEMS session will be facilitated by Grace Akinwande from the Claremont Graduate University. Title: From Pizza to Calculus: Understanding Area Through Approximation Abstract: How much more pizza do you […]
Abstract: Anderson Acceleration (AA) has been widely used to solve nonlinear fixed-point problems due to its rapid convergence. This talk focuses on a variant of AA in which multiple Picard […]
Let $C$ be a nice (smooth, projective, geometrically integral) curve over a number field $k$. The single most important geometric invariant of a curve is the genus, which can control […]
We welcome all undergraduate/graduate students and faculty to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Robert Cass (Claremont McKenna College) Title: Schubert varieties are splinters Abstract: Schubert varieties are among the most well-studied […]
CCMS Colloquium invites you to a talk by Jemma Lorenat (Pitzer) Title: Recognizing data: statistical literacies around 1900 Abstract: This talk centers on the first (and perhaps only) doctorate in the theory […]
Abstract: Transparency is vital for efficiency in social systems, yet individuals with critical information often strategically postpone disclosure, even when required, to benefit themselves. To study this behavior, we introduce […]
This talk explores elementary probability and statistics through the language of category theory. We introduce a category of Bundles and use it to reinterpret several results typically covered in an […]
Atul Vyas was an outstanding CMC student who was majoring in Mathematics and Physics. He tragically lost his life in a train crash that occurred on September 12, 2008 in Chatsworth, California. The Mathematical Sciences Department at CMC fondly remembers Atul as someone who was equally excited by the power of mathematical abstraction and the […]
CCMS Colloquium invites you to a talk by Robert Sanchez (HMC) Title: Tides: Under the Sea and Under the Ice Abstract: Physical oceanography is the study of ocean fluid dynamics […]
