Covering point-sets with parallel hyperplanes and sparse signal recovery (Lenny Fukshansky, CMC)
Let S be a set of k > n points in n-dimensional Euclidean space. How many parallel hyperplanes are needed to cover it? In fact, it is easy to prove […]
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Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, California
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Tommaso Cremaschi (USC)
Title: Volumes and filling collections of multicurves Abstract: In this talk we will be concerned with links L in a Seifert-Fibered space N such that their projection to the base […]
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Kernel approaches in global statistical distances, local measure detection, and active learning
Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMCIn this talk, we'll discuss the problem of constructing meaningful distances between probability distributions given only finite samples from each distribution. We approach this through the use of data-adaptive and […]
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Applied Math Talk: Robust Estimators for Monte Carlo data given by Prof. Mark Huber (CMC)
Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CaliforniaData coming from Monte Carlo experiments is often analyzed in the same way as data from more traditional sources. The unique nature of Monte Carlo data, where it is easy […]
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Quandle module quivers (Sam Nelson, CMC)
Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CaliforniaQuandle coloring quivers categorify the quandle counting invariant. In this talk we enhance the quandle coloring quiver invariant with quandle modules, generalizing both the quiver invariant and the quandle module […]
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Applications of Markov Chains to Swarm Robotics and Political Redistricting
Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMCWhat do swarm robotics and political redistricting have in common? One answer is Markov chains, which have recently been used in very different ways to address problems in both these […]
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Applied Math Talk: Information Theory, Archetypal Analysis and MT Flu given by Professor Emily Stone (University of Montana-Missoula)
Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CaliforniaIn this talk I will discuss a rather unique collection of tools and how they have been used to understand the spread of Influenza virus in the State of Montana. With flu counts from each county over a 10 year period some patterns emerge, which explain some vectors of the disease spread. Archetypal analysis then […]
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On badly approximable numbers (Nikolai Moshchevitin, Moscow State University)
Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CaliforniaIt is well known that a real number is badly approximable if and only if the partial quotients in its continued fraction expansion are bounded. Motivated by a recent wonderful paper by Ngoc Ai Van Nguyen, Anthony Poels and Damien Roy (where the authors give a simple alternative solution of Schmidt-Summerer's problem) we found an […]
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Ken Millett (UCSB)
Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesGordian Knots According to the legend of Phrygian Gordium, Alexander the Great cut the ``Gordian Knot’’ and eventually went on to rule Asia thereby fulfilling an ancient prophecy. Where there are several descriptions of the precise nature of the Gordian Knot and Alexander’s action, an explicit mathematical treatment (the theory of thick knots) and the reasons […]
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Kenneth Millett (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesGordian Knots According to the legend of Phrygian Gordium, Alexander the Great cut the ``Gordian Knot’’ and eventually went on to rule Asia thereby fulfilling an ancient prophecy. Where there are several descriptions of the precise nature of the Gordian Knot and Alexander’s action, an explicit mathematical treatment (the theory of thick knots) and the reasons […]
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Nano Knot theory, methods to study tiny knot in nature
Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMCKnotting in living organisms is a feature that is visible to the careful observer of biological life. Since the 1970’s, with the increasing power of electron microscopes, scientists have been able […]
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Discrepancy theory and related questions (Dmitriy Bilyk, University of Minnesota)
Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesThe talk will concentrate on open questions related to the optimal bounds for the discrepancy of an $N$-point set in the $d$-dimensional unit cube. The so-called star-discrepancy measures the difference between the actual and expected number of points in axis-parallel rectangles, and thus measures the equidistribution of the set. This notion has been explored by H. Weyl, K. Roth, and many others, […]