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  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Konstantinos Varvarezos (UCLA)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Cosmetic Surgeries on Knots and Heegaard Floer Homology Abstract: A common method of constructing 3-manifolds is via Dehn surgery on knots. A pair of surgeries on a knot is […]

  • Slope Gap Distributions of Translation Surfaces (Taylor McAdam, Pomona College)

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

    Title: Slope gap distributions of translation surfaces Speaker: Taylor McAdam, Department of Mathematics, Pomona College Abstract: How “random” are the rational numbers? To make sense of this question, let us consider the set […]

  • GEMS November 4th Session

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

  • Applied Math Seminar: Claremont Colleges Course Previews for Spring 2024

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    During 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 […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Hyunki Min (UCLA)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: 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 States

    Title: 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 originally phrased in terms of Diophantine approximation: Given positive integers n_1, n_2, ..., n_k, there exists a positive real number t such that for all […]

  • Applied Math Seminar: Adam Yassine (Pomona College)

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: 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 States

    True 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 sexes, and authored publications in their own names in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Yet Alice Hall Farnsworth, Mary Murray Hopkins, Harriet McWilliams […]

  • Adinkra Heights and Color-Splitting Rainbows (Ursula Whitcher, American Mathematical Society)

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

    Title: 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 […]