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Applied Math Seminar: Claremont Colleges Course Previews for Spring 2024
Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United StatesDuring this student-centered Applied Math Seminar, there will be discussion and presentations about upcoming courses offered in applied mathematics, to help students make their enrollment choices for Spring 2024 and […]
Frobenius coin-exchange generating functions (Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University)
Roberts North 102, CMCWe study variants of the Frobenius coin-exchange problem: Given n positive relatively prime parameters, what is the largest integer that cannot be represented as a nonnegative integral linear combination of the […]
Claremont Topology Seminar: Hyunki Min (UCLA)
Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United StatesTitle: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar: Julia Tomasson (Columbia University)
On ZoomInventing the ‘Islamic Golden Age’: Orientalism and the History of Mathematics Abstract: TBA