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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 […]

  • 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 > […]

  • 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 […]

  • When is the product of Siegel eigenforms an eigenform? (Jim Brown, Occidental College)

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

    Modular 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 to number theory, modular forms show up in diverse areas such as coding theory and particle physics.  Roughly speaking, a modular form is a complex-valued […]

  • 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).  […]

  • Job Talk – Howard Levinson – Candidate for Assistant Professor in Mathematics

    Candidate for Assistant Professor in Mathematics Howard Levinson, University of Michigan Seeing Clearly Through a Microscope The goal of microscope imaging is to obtain high-resolution images of cells.  However, due to the underlying physics involved, the resulting images are often blurred.  In this talk, I will develop the mathematical framework to describe this blurring, which […]

  • 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 to partition space-time into regions according to a Lagrangian quantity advected along with passive tracers, such class of coherent structure is called the Lagrangian coherent […]