Claremont Topology Seminar: Hyunki Min (UCLA)
Title: Contact structures and the mapping class group of lens spaces Abstract: One important problem in contact topology is to classify contact structures on a given manifold. Around 20 years […]
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Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States
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Lonely Runners and My Favorite Polyhedron (Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University)
Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Lonely Runners and My Favorite Polyhedron Speaker: Matthias Beck, Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University Abstract: We study the Lonely Runner Conjecture, conceived by Wills in the 1960's, and originally phrased in terms of Diophantine approximation: Given positive integers n_1, n_2, ..., n_k, there exists a positive real number t such that for all […]
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Applied Math Seminar: Adam Yassine (Pomona College)
Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: On the Composition of Classical Mechanical Systems Abstract: Compositionality is a basic principle for understanding the physical world. The underlying idea is to study a system by studying the […]
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History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar: Kris Palmieri (University of Chicago)
Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United StatesTrue Grit: Writing the History of Women at Yerkes Observatory, 1895–1950 Abstract: Women at Yerkes Observatory earned advanced degrees, conducted their own research, collaborated on projects with peers of both sexes, and authored publications in their own names in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Yet Alice Hall Farnsworth, Mary Murray Hopkins, Harriet McWilliams […]
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f^*-vectors of lattice polytopes (Max Hlavacek, Pomona College)
Roberts North 102, CMCThe Ehrhart polynomial of a lattice polytope P counts the number of integer points in the nth integral dilate of P. The f^* -vector of P, introduced by Felix Breuer […]
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Geometry and Topology Seminar: Claremont Colleges Course Previews for Spring 2024
Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United StatesOn November 14th, Tuesday from 3-4pm in Fletcher 110, Geometry and Topology Seminar invites students and faculty to a course preview session devoted to a discussion and presentations about upcoming […]
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Adinkra Heights and Color-Splitting Rainbows (Ursula Whitcher, American Mathematical Society)
Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Adinkra Heights and Color-Splitting Rainbows Speaker: Ursula Whitcher, American Mathematical Society Abstract: Adinkras are decorated graphs that encapsulate information about conjectural relationships between fundamental particles in physics. If we […]
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Continued fractions, directed graphs, and defining spectral triples on Effros-Shen AF algebras (Samantha Brooker, Arizona State University)
Estella 2141 610 N College Ave, Claremont, United StatesThe Effros-Shen algebra corresponding to an irrational number $\theta$ can be described by an inductive sequence of direct sums of matrix algebras, where the continued fraction expansion of $\theta$ encodes […]
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History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar: Julia Tomasson (Columbia University)
On ZoomInventing the ‘Islamic Golden Age’: Orientalism and the History of Mathematics Abstract: TBA
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On the Cox ring of a weighted projective plane blown-up at a point (Javier Gonzalez Anaya, HMC)
Roberts North 102, CMCThe Cox ring of a projective variety is the ring of all its meromorphic functions, together with a grading of geometric origin. Determining whether this ring is finitely generated is […]
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What can chicken nuggets tell us about symmetric functions, positive polynomials, random norms, and AF algebras? (Stephan Garcia, Pomona)
Roberts North 102, CMCA simple question about chicken nuggets connects everything from analysis and combinatorics to probability theory and computer-aided design. With tools from complex, harmonic, and functional analysis, probability theory, algebraic combinatorics, […]
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Claremont Topology Seminar: Melody Molander (UCSB)
Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: Skein Theory of Affine ADE Subfactor Planar Algebras Abstract: Subfactor planar algebras first were constructed by Vaughan Jones as a diagrammatic axiomatization of the standard invariant of a subfactor. […]