• 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 motivated by questions of network monitoring, in which the loss of information can hinder propagation through a graph. As a variant of standard zero forcing, […]

  • 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 a great achievement of the human intellect that we are able to locate fundamental mechanisms shared by phenomenon with such a dramatic difference in scale […]

  • Diophantine avoidance, primitive elements, and normal basis theorem (Sehun Jeong, CMC)

    Estella 2099

    Diophantine avoidance has been studied by several authors in recent years. This refers to effective results on existence of points of bounded size in a given algebraic set avoiding some specified subsets. The famous primitive element theorem states that every number field K is of the form Q(a) for some element a in K. From the proof of […]

  • 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: When XY is not equal to YX Abstract:  The commutative property of algebra states that the order of multiplication makes no difference: XY = YX. This property is so ingrained in our experience that it becomes difficult to imagine how algebra would function without it! If the commutative property fails, […]

  • CCMS Colloquium: Andrew Fiss (Michigan Technological University)

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

    CCMS Colloquium invites you to a talk by Andrew Fiss (Michigan Technological University) Title: “Singing American Math: College Traditions from Book Burnings to Observatory Parties, 1880s-1920s" Abstract:  “Singing Math” is a practice […]

  • An Exact Algorithm for the Unanimous Vote Problem (Feyza Duman Keles, NYU)

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

    Abstract: Consider n independent, biased coins, each with a known probability of heads. Presented with an ordering of these coins, flip (i.e., toss) each coin once, in that order, until […]