Week of Events
Sunday, February 17, 2019
No events on this day.
Monday, February 18, 2019
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February 18, 2019 -Job Talk – Nicole Fider, UC Irvine
Job Talk – Nicole Fider, UC Irvine
Candidate for Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Scripps College A surprising application of mathematics: How to name a color Your brain likes patterns and categories; by grouping related ideas together, it […]
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
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February 19, 2019 -Knowledge, strategies, and know-how (Pavel Naumov, CMC)
Knowledge, strategies, and know-how (Pavel Naumov, CMC)
An agent comes to a fork in a road. There is a sign that says that one of the two roads leads to prosperity and another to death. The agent […]
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
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February 20, 2019 -Personal Perspectives on m-ary Partitions (James Sellers, Penn State)
Personal Perspectives on m-ary Partitions (James Sellers, Penn State)
Abstract: A great deal of my research journey has involved the study of m-ary partitions. These are integer partitions wherein each part must be a power of a fixed integer m > […]
Thursday, February 21, 2019
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February 21, 2019 -A nonorientable version of the Milnor Conjecture (Cornelia A. Van Cott, USF)
A nonorientable version of the Milnor Conjecture (Cornelia A. Van Cott, USF)
In 1968, Milnor famously conjectured that the smooth 4-genus of the torus knot T(p,q) is given by (p-1)(q-1)/2. This conjecture was first verified by Kronheimer and Mrowka in 1993 and […]
Friday, February 22, 2019
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February 22, 2019 -Uniform Convergence: A One-Woman Play
Uniform Convergence: A One-Woman Play
Uniform Convergence is a one-woman play, written and performed by mathematics graduate student Corrine Yap. It juxtaposes the stories of two women trying to find their place in a white […]
Saturday, February 23, 2019
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