• GEMS September 5th Session

    Shanahan 3481, Harvey Mudd College 320 E. Foothill Blvd., Claremont, CA, United States

    This GEMS session will be facilitated by Professor Qidi Peng and William Wu from Claremont Graduate University. Title: How to create a die if you only have a coin? Abstract: Imagine you […]

  • Fall 2026 Research Poster Session

    The Drucker Institute 1021 N. Dartmouth Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    This poster session is meant to showcase undergraduate and graduate work in the mathematical sciences, broadly interpreted, in a supportive environment. The poster session will take place at Claremont Graduate University at The Drucker Institute, 1021 N Dartmouth Ave from 4:15pm - 5:30pm, on Wednesday September 9th, 2026.   Refreshments will be provided! For any […]

  • Kloosterman sums and Bessel functions (Robert Cass, CMC)

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    Kloosterman sums are explicit exponential sums which occur in several contexts in number theory and arithmetic geometry. Bessel functions encode a great deal of representation-theoretic information about finite groups of Lie type, but they are difficult to compute in general. In this talk, we will carefully define these objects and describe a direct relationship between […]

  • Edge Ideals via Independence Polynomials of Graphs — Dalena Vien (Bryn Mawr)

    Burkle 16, Claremont Graduate University 1021 N. Dartmouth Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Abstract: Edge ideals of graphs provide a fertile ground for uncovering combinatorial expressions for algebraic invariants of squarefree monomial ideals. Many algebraic invariants of these edge ideals directly reflect combinatorial properties […]

  • Hilbert basis for conical semigroups and indecomposable elements (Lenny Fukshansky, CMC)

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    The unique minimal generating set for a semigroup of lattice points in an n-dimensional polyhedral cone is called its Hilbert basis. In the case when the cone is spanned by lattice points, this Hilbert basis is finite, however its cardinality can be much larger than n. Nevertheless, a conjecture of Sebö states that each point […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Sam Nelson (CMC)

    Speaker: Sam Nelson (CMC) Title: Permutation Jones Polynomials Abstract: The Jones Polynomial is an important invariant of knots with applications in physics, quantum computation and more. In this talk I […]