• CCMS Colloquium: Puttipong Pongtanapaisan (Pitzer)

    Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States

    CCMS Colloquium invites you to a talk by Puttipong Pongtanapaisan (Pitzer) Title:  Derivatives and the Shape of Graphs Abstract:  Reading the title of this talk, perhaps you think you are […]

  • GEMS April 4th Session

    Shanahan 1480, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United States

    This GEMS session will be facilitated by Evan Rosenman from Claremont McKenna College Title: Fair Votes? The Mathematics of Elections and Redistricting Abstract: How do we know if an election is fair? In this interactive session, we’ll explore how math helps us answer that question. Students will experiment with drawing voting districts to see how drawing different […]

  • Tropical linear series and matroids (Dagan Karp, HMC)

    Estella 2099

    In this talk, I'll attempt to give a friendly introduction to tropical linear series and explore their relationship to matroid theory. Along the way, we'll stop to admire the beautiful view from enumerative geometry and combinatorics. This is joint work with Chih-Wei Chang, Matthew Dupraz, Hernan Iriarte, David Jensen, Sam Payne, and Jidong Wang, and also with […]

  • CCMS Colloquium: Course Preview

    Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States

    Please join us for the course preview of all the math courses for Fall 2026. Join us to hear from faculty about the exciting math courses being offered this upcoming fall. […]

  • The alchemy of mixing mathematics: The second annual CCMS workshop in the history and philosophy of mathematics

    Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    This one-day workshop assembles diverse perspectives from the history and philosophy of mathematics to examine ways in which mathematics interacts and expands across other fields of study. Please RSVP here by Monday, April 6th to attend the workshop and lunch. Schedule 10:00 to 10:05 Welcome! 10:05 to 11:05 Otávio Bueno (University of Miami & Tohoku […]

  • Extremal Eigenvalues of Weighted Steklov Problems (Chiu-Yen Kao, CMC)

    Emmy Noether Room, Estella 1021, Pomona College, 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Abstract: We study the optimization of Steklov eigenvalues with respect to a boundary density function ρ on a bounded Lipschitz domain. We investigate the minimization and maximization of a Steklov eigenvalue over admissible densities satisfying pointwise bounds and a fixed integral constraint. We establish the existence of optimal solutions and provide structural characterizations: minimizers are […]

  • Knot complements, series invariants and Lie superalgebra (John Yoonseok Chae)

    Estella 2099

    Inspired by the categorification program for a numerical invariant of three-manifolds, series invariants for closed manifolds and for knot complements were introduced. This in turn motivated an extension of the series invariant of the former case to Lie superalgebras. It was recently generalized to knot complements. In this talk, we review the original series invariants […]

  • CCMS Colloquium: Ryan Moruzzi (CSU Northridge)

    Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States

    CCMS Colloquium invites you to a talk by Ryan Moruzzi (CSU Northridge) Title:  Exploring Leaky Forcing Through Hopi Rectangle graphs Abstract:  Leaky forcing, introduced in 2019, is a graph-coloring process […]

  • The Secret Life of Turbulent Fluids (Vincent Martinez, Caltech)

    Emmy Noether Room, Estella 1021, Pomona College, 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Abstract: Turbulence influences our lives in a multitude of ways, ranging from the mundane (when we stir milk into our coffee) to the spectacular (the formation of galaxies). It is […]

  • CCMS Colloquium: Manuel Reyes (UCI)

    Davidson Lecture Hall, CMC 340 E 9th St, Claremont, CA, United States

    CCMS Colloquium invites you to a talk by Manuel Reyes (UCI) Title: Abstract:   Bio: