• structural aspects of von Neumann algebras arising as graph products (Rolando de Santiago, Purdue University)

    Roberts North 105, CMC 320 E. 9th St., Claremont, CA, United States

    Graph products of groups were introduced in E. Green’s thesis in the 90’s as generalizations of Right-Angled Artin Groups. These have become objects of intense study due to their key roles in topology and group theory.  Recently, Caspers and Fima introduced graph products of von Neumann algebras. Since their inception, several structural aspects such as […]

  • On zeros of multilinear polynomials (Max Forst, CGU)

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

    Consider rational polynomials in multiple variables that are linear with respect to some of the variables. In this talk we discuss the problem of finding a zero of such polynomials […]

  • Applied Math Seminar: Michael Perlmutter (UCLA)

    Claremont, CA, United States

    Title:Geometric Scattering on Measure Spaces Abstract: Geometric Deep Learning is an emerging field of research that aims to extend the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to data with non-Euclidean geometric structure. Despitebeing in its relative infancy, this field has already found great success in many applications such as recommender systems, computer graphics, and traffic […]

  • Watch your step: Modeling on Time Scales (Prof. Raegan Higgins, Texas Tech University)

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

    Title: Watch your step: Modeling on Time Scales Speaker: Raegan Higgins, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas Tech University Abstract: Generally, differential and difference equations are used in the mathematical modeling of physical systems. Our modeling approach uses dynamic equations on time scales. A time scale T is an arbitrary, nonempty, closed subset of the […]

  • The Fell topology and the modular Gromov-Hausdorff propinquity (Jiahui Yu, Pomona College)

    Roberts North 105, CMC 320 E. 9th St., Claremont, CA, United States

    Given a unital AF (approximately finite-dimensional) algebra A equipped with a faithful tracial state, we equip each (norm-closed two-sided) ideal of A with a metrized quantum vector bundle structure, when canonically viewed as a module over A, in the sense of Latrémolière using previous work of Aguilar and Latrémolière. Moreover, we show that convergence of […]

  • GEMS March 4th Session

    Harvey Mudd College at the Shanahan Teaching and Learning Center 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United States
  • Sometimes Pi Equals 4 (Prof. Cornelia van Cott, University of San Francisco)

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

    Title: Sometimes Pi Equals 4 Speaker: Cornelia van Cott, Department of Mathematics, University of San Francisco Abstract: Most of your mathematical life, you've known that pi is a number somewhere between 3.1 and 3.2. But if we exchange the usual notion of distance in two-dimensional space for others, pi can be any of an infinite number […]

  • Existence and uniqueness of minimizers in variational problems (Wilfrid Gangbo, UCLA)

    Roberts North 105, CMC 320 E. 9th St., Claremont, CA, United States

    We comment on the main steps to take when studying some variational problems. This includes optimization problems arising in geometry, machine learning, non linear elasticity, fluid mechanics, etc... For the sake of illustration, in this talk, we keep our focus on a minimization problem obtained after a time-discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Elementary geometric […]

  • Deniz Sarikaya on Narratives of Mathematical Practice (and why they matter!)

    Claremont, CA, United States

    Deniz Sarikaya joining us from the Technical University of Denmark and speaking on "Narratives of Mathematical Practice (and why they matter!)" (abstract below).   The speaker will join via zoom, but there will be a live audience on the second floor of Pitzer College's Gold Student Center in the Multipurpose room (in the building marked 3 here: https://www.pitzer.edu/about/maps-directions/quick-reference-map/). […]