• Applied Math Seminar — Leif Zinn-Brooks (HMC/Scripps)

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

    Title: Circadian Rhythms in Multinucleate Cells Abstract: Circadian rhythms are among the most researched cellular processes, but limited work has been done on how these rhythms are coordinated between nuclei in multinucleate cells. I'll analyze a mathematical model for circadian oscillations in a multinucleate cell, motivated by mRNA and protein data from the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Stochastic simulations of […]

  • Topology Seminar — Matthew vonAllmen

    Zoom meeting , United States

    Title: Untying Knots with Neural Nets Abstract: Neural networks can transform 3-dimensional data in a manner reminiscent of an ambient isotopy. With some modifications, a neural network can be trained to manipulate the vertices of a knot while respecting its topological structure. We use the discrete Mo ̈bius energy as a loss function to incentivize […]

  • What we talk about when we talk about math (Prof. Lillian Pierce)

    Zoom

    Title: What we talk about when we talk about math Speaker: Prof. Lillian Pierce, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Professor of Mathematics at Duke University Abstract: In 1864, the mathematician J. J. Sylvester wrote: May not Music be described as the Mathematics of the sense, Mathematics as Music of the reason?...Thus the musician feels […]

  • Fall break

    Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, California

    No applied math talk

  • Panel on Paths in Mathematics After Undergrad

    Zoom

    Panelists: Tatiana Bradley, Michelle Goodwin, Isys Johnson, John Lentfer, and Matthew vonAllmen We will have a panel discussion with graduates from the Claremont Consortium who have taken different pathways after graduation. After introductions, there will be time for open questions from the audience. Afterward, breakout rooms will be open for a casual discussion with the panelists and […]

  • Applied Math Seminar — Mario Banuelos (Cal State University, Fresno)

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

    Title: A Recommendation Systems Approach for Detecting Epistasis Abstract: There are a variety of methods used to understand and interpret an organism’s phenotype, the physical expression of one or more […]

  • Damerell’s theorem: p-adic version, supersingular case (Pavel Guerzhoy, University of Hawaii)

    On Zoom

    It is widely believed that Weierstrass ignored Eisenstein's theory of elliptic functions and developed an alternative treatment, which is now standard, because of a convergence issue. In particular, the Eisenstein series of weight two does not converge absolutely while Eisenstein's theory assigned a value to this series. It is now well-known that the quantity which […]

  • Clouds and Climate (Prof. Tapio Schneider)

    Zoom

    Title: Clouds and Climate Prof. Tapio Schneider Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering California Institute of Technology Abstract: Clouds are an essential regulator of climate. They cool […]