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  • Knowledge, strategies, and know-how (Pavel Naumov, CMC)

    Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    An 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 […]

  • Personal Perspectives on m-ary Partitions (James Sellers, Penn State)

    Shanahan B460, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United States

    Abstract:  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 > […]

  • A nonorientable version of the Milnor Conjecture (Cornelia A. Van Cott, USF)

    Roberts North 104, CMC 320 E. 9th St., Claremont, CA, United States

    In 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 […]

  • Uniform Convergence: A One-Woman Play

    Millikan 1051, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Uniform 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 […]

  • 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, California

    Measurement 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 […]

  • Pull Out All The Stops: Textual Analysis via Punctuation Sequences (Mason Porter, UCLA)

    Shanahan B460, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United States

    Abstract: 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 […]

  • Applying Quantum Representations of Mapping Class Groups (Wade Bloomquist, UCSB)

    Roberts North 104, CMC 320 E. 9th St., Claremont, CA, United States

    One 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).  […]

  • Applied Math Seminar: Eulerian Approaches based on the Level Set Method for Visualizing Continuous Dynamical Systems (Shingyu Leung, Department of Mathematics, HKUST)

    Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, California

    One very important concept in understanding a dynamical system is coherent structure. Such structure segments the domain into different regions with similar behavior according to a quantity. When we try […]