Subgraph statistics (Benny Sudakov, ETH Zurich)
Given integers $k,l$ and a graph $G$, how large can be the fraction of $k$-vertex subsets of $G$ which span exactly $l$ edges? The systematic study of this very natural […]
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Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States
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Cracking the Code: Predicting Properties of Material Fracture Networks using Machine Learning (Allon Percus, CGU)
Shanahan B460, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United StatesUnderstanding how fluid flows through heterogeneous materials, and how it can make these materials fail, are among the hardest challenges in materials science. Experiments and simulations show that flow through […]
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Job Talk – Nicole Fider, UC Irvine
Candidate for Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Scripps College A surprising application of mathematics: How to name a color Your brain likes patterns and categories; by grouping related ideas together, it […]
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Knowledge, strategies, and know-how (Pavel Naumov, CMC)
Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesAn agent comes to a fork in a road. There is a sign that says that one of the two roads leads to prosperity and another to death. The agent […]
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Personal Perspectives on m-ary Partitions (James Sellers, Penn State)
Shanahan B460, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United StatesAbstract: A great deal of my research journey has involved the study of m-ary partitions. These are integer partitions wherein each part must be a power of a fixed integer m > […]
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A nonorientable version of the Milnor Conjecture (Cornelia A. Van Cott, USF)
Roberts North 104, CMC 320 E. 9th St., Claremont, CA, United StatesIn 1968, Milnor famously conjectured that the smooth 4-genus of the torus knot T(p,q) is given by (p-1)(q-1)/2. This conjecture was first verified by Kronheimer and Mrowka in 1993 and has received several other proofs since then. In this talk, we discuss a nonorientable analogue of this conjecture, first formulated by Josh Batson. We prove […]
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Uniform Convergence: A One-Woman Play
Millikan 1051, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesUniform Convergence is a one-woman play, written and performed by mathematics graduate student Corrine Yap. It juxtaposes the stories of two women trying to find their place in a white male-dominated academic world. The first is of historical Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, who was lauded as a pioneer for women in science but only after […]
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Applied Math Seminar: Measurement Error Modeling using Empirical Phase Functions (Prof. Cornelis Potgieter, Southern Methodist University)
Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CaliforniaMeasurement error, formally defined as the difference between the measured value and the true value of a quantity of interest, is ubiquitous. When a doctor takes your blood pressure, the instrumentation may not be properly calibrated and the reading is subject to error. When completing an online Harry Potter Sorting Hat quiz, you may accidentally […]
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Job Talk – Scripps Candidate for Assistant Professor in Mathematics
Job Talk: Christina Edholm, University of Tennessee "Epidemiological models examining two susceptible classes" Monday, February 25 4:00-4:50pm Balch 218, Scripps College
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When is the product of Siegel eigenforms an eigenform? (Jim Brown, Occidental College)
Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesModular forms are ubiquitous in modern number theory. For instance, showing that elliptic curves are secretly modular forms was the key to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. In addition […]
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Pull Out All The Stops: Textual Analysis via Punctuation Sequences (Mason Porter, UCLA)
Shanahan B460, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United StatesAbstract: Whether enjoying the lucid prose of a favorite author or slogging through some other writer's cumbersome, heavy-set prattle (full of parentheses, em-dashes, compound adjectives, and Oxford commas), readers will notice stylistic signatures not only in word choice and grammar, but also in punctuation itself. Indeed, visual sequences of punctuation from different authors produce marvelously […]
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Applying Quantum Representations of Mapping Class Groups (Wade Bloomquist, UCSB)
Roberts North 104, CMC 320 E. 9th St., Claremont, CA, United StatesOne foundational pillar of low dimensional topology is the connection between link invariants and 3-manifold invariants. One generalization of this has been given by Reshetikhin and Turaev to a surgery theory for colored ribbon graphs. Then to complete the analogy rather than 3-manifold invariants we now have a 2+1 dimensional topology quantum field theory (TQFT). […]