• Student Research Presentations: I

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    4:20 pm Title: Methodology of Global Sensitivity Analysis for Determination of Important Parameters in a Mathematical Model Presenter: An Do (CGU) 4:30 pm Title: Using Data Science to gain insights into the relationship between Metagenomics and Psychiatric Disorders Presenter: Tom Fu (HMC) 4:40 pm Title: Classifying time series data via manifold techniques Presenter: Adam Guo […]

  • Student Research Presentations III

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    4:20 Title: Nested Links, Linking Matrices, and Crushtaceans Presenter: Madeline Brown (Scripps) 4:30 Title: Computing Cube Decisions for Backgammon Endgame Positions Presenter: Mathus Leungpathomaram (HMC) 4:40 Title: The Limiting Spectral Measure for an Ensemble of Generalized Checkerboard Matrices Presenter: Jiahui Yu (Pomona) 4:50 Title: The Stationary Distribution of Recombination, Part I Presenters: Emma Kolesnik (Scripps), […]

  • Student Research Presentations II

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    4:20pm Title: Measuring Publication Bias in Foreign Language Editions of Russian State-Owned Media Company RT Presenter: Benjamin Figueroa (CMC) 4:30pm Title:Multilingual Emoticon Prediction of Tweets about COVID-19 Presenter: Stefanos Stoikos […]

  • Prof. Jemma Lorenat

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    Title: A competent translation/a pitiful bungle: The Foundations of Geometry Abstract: David Hilbert’s Grundlagen der Geometrie is a rare example of a historical mathematics text that is still profitably read today and continues to inspire research in mathematics, computer science, and philosophy. The effort of publishing an English translation of Hilbert in 1902 involved a […]

  • Prof. Satyan Devadoss

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    Title: Unsolved Mathematics at Burning Man Abstract: Rising 12 feet tall with an 18-foot wingspan, a 2-ton unfolding dodecahedron comes to life at Burning Man, the world’s most influential large-scale […]

  • Prof. Grigoriy Blekherman

    Title: Nonnegative Polynomials and Sums of Squares Abstract: Is x4-2x3+7x2-2x+1 nonnegative for any value of x? One way of showing that this holds is by writing x4-2x3+7x2-2x+1=1/2(x2-3x+1)2+1/2(x2+x+1)2. Studying the relationship […]

  • Moody Lecture: Prof. Nadia Abuelezam

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    Title: Injustice, Inequity, and Inequality: Lessons at the Intersection of Mathematics, Epidemiology, and Racism Registration information for this talk at: https://www.hmc.edu/mathematics/moody-lecture-series/ Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed existing health inequities for […]

  • Prof. Stephan Ramon Garcia

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    Title: Combinatorics and the Kitchen Sink Abstract: Numerical semigroups are simple combinatorial objects that lead to deep and subtle questions. We answer in one fell swoop virtually all asymptotic questions […]