Week of Events
Applied Math Seminar: Adam Waterbury (UCSB)
Applied Math Seminar: Adam Waterbury (UCSB)
Title: Approximating Quasi-Stationary Distributions with Interacting Reinforced Markov Chains Abstract: An important question in ecology is what conditions must be met for a population of interacting species to coexist. In realistic models of such populations, after a large enough amount of time has passed, one or more of the species are sure to face extinction. […]
On the geometry of lattice extensions (Max Forst, CGU)
On the geometry of lattice extensions (Max Forst, CGU)
Given a lattice L, an extension of L is a lattice M of strictly greater rank so that L is equal to the intersection of the subspace spanned by L with M. In this talk, we will discus constructions of such lattice extensions with particular geometric invariants of M, such as the determinant, covering radius […]
Human Computers in Astronomy: Women Astronomers at Mount Wilson Observatory during the Early Twentieth Century (Prof. Eun-Joo Ahn)
Human Computers in Astronomy: Women Astronomers at Mount Wilson Observatory during the Early Twentieth Century (Prof. Eun-Joo Ahn)
Title: Human Computers in Astronomy: Women Astronomers at Mount Wilson Observatory during the Early Twentieth Century Speaker: Eun-Joo Ahn, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara Abstract: Mount Wilson Observatory was founded by astrophysicist George Ellery Hale in 1904 with funding from the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Since then, it has become one of the most prominent […]
Quantum metrics on the natural numbers (Katrine von Bornemann Hjelmborg, University of Southern Denmark)
Quantum metrics on the natural numbers (Katrine von Bornemann Hjelmborg, University of Southern Denmark)
Quantum metrics in the sense of Rieffel were introduced to prove some statements arising in the high-energy physics literature. Since then, the area of quantum metric geometry has been used to answer questions stemming from within mathematics as well. To prove such results, it is often the case that certain properties of a quantum metric […]