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SUMMARY:No CCMS Colloquium on November 27th! Happy Thanksgiving!
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URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/no-ccms-colloquium-on-november-27th-happy-thanksgiving/
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SUMMARY:Traces of Partition Eisenstein series (Ken Ono\, University of Virginia)
DESCRIPTION:Integer partitions are ubiquitous in mathematics\, arising in subjects as disparate as algebraic combinatorics\, algebraic geometry\, number theory\, representation theory\, to mathematics physics. Many of the deepest results on partitions have their origin in the work of Ramanujan. In this lecture\, we will describe a completely new and unexpected role for partitions that also arises from the mysterious “lost notebook” of Ramanujan. We discover and explain the role of new q-series called “partition Eisenstein series”. These functions magically pop up as the key device for solving a conjecture of Andrews and Berndt\, for studying symmetric functions of 2-dimensional lattice sums\, for determining the properties of Andrews-Garvan “crank statistic”\, and for representing the Taylor coefficients of virtually every interesting Jacobi automorphic form. This talk will tell the story of the recent discovery of these functions\, and will offer a brief tour of these applications.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/antc-seminar-ken-ono-university-of-virginia/
LOCATION:Estella 2113
CATEGORIES:Algebra / Number Theory / Combinatorics Seminar
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SUMMARY:Claremont Topology Seminar: Claudio Gomez-Gonzales (Carleton College - UC Irvine)
DESCRIPTION:We welcome all undergraduate/graduate students and faculty to attend the Topology Seminar! \nSpeaker: Claudio Gomez-Gonzales (Carleton College – UC Irvine) \nTitle: How hard could it be? A tour of resolvent degree \nAbstract: Solving algebraic equations are among the oldest problems in mathematics. In this talk\, we offer a concrete\, visual\, and historical introduction to resolvent degree (RD)\, an invariant that aspires to quantify just how hard these problems are. The lineage of this theory includes the origins of topology\, Klein’s “hypergalois” program\, and centuries-old exploits in reducing numbers of coefficients\, which dare us to push beyond the solvable/unsolvable dichotomy. We will build towards the notion of versality central to Klein’s vision\, with a nod to our general framework implemented in joint work with Alexander Sutherland and Jesse Wolfson\, that permits us to address resolvent questions via classical invariant theory. We will conclude by reflecting on the past and future of resolvent problems\, along with what we do and don’t know about RD. This talk is designed to be accessible for undergraduates—let’s do some math!
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/claremont-topology-seminar-claudio-gomez-gonzales-carleton-college-uc-irvine/
LOCATION:Estella 2099
CATEGORIES:Topology Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Bahar Acu":MAILTO:Bahar_Acu@pitzer.edu
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SUMMARY:CCMS Colloquium: Molecular Pasta\, Complex Entanglement in Biopolymers (Dorothy Buck\, Duke Uni.)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dorothy Buck\, Professor of Mathematics\, Duke University \nTitle: Molecular Pasta: Complex Entanglement in Biopolymers \nAbstract: If you’ve cooked spaghetti\, you’ve probably noticed how the pasta becomes entangled in the pot (especially in a small volume of water) or in your bowl afterwards.  This is a macro example of what I like to think about: entanglement in biopolymers.  Like linguine in a boiling pot of water\, our own DNA is a (group of) long skinny molecule(s) in the confined volume of an active\, energetic cell.  Unlike fettuccine though\, it’s life-or-death important to organize\, access and groom these long skinny DNA molecules.  So there’s a host of small machines (proteins) to do this\, in ways we’ve yet to fully understand.  Part of the complication is that we don’t yet have the precise experimental tools yet to watch (through microscopes) this dynamic process.  So instead we use the shape of these DNA molecules — before\, during and after their grooming — to back solve the precise processes that must be happening within the cell. \nIn this talk\, I’ll give an overview of some of these molecular biological questions\, why we care about them (as humans\, biologists and mathematicians) and some of my answers to these.  In particular I’ll highlight some more recent work on understanding DNA spatial graphs\, including those that look the the Greek letter theta\, and the exciting new mathematics we’ve developed to accurately model DNA during cell division \nBio: Dorothy Buck is an alumna of Pomona College\, and credits the Pomona Math department — including Professors Shahriar Shahriari\, Richard Elderkin and especially Erica Flapan — for igniting a love of both math and academia. Her 20+ years of research has worked to characterize entanglement – in circles\, linear segments and graphs – and to explore how biomolecular entanglement affects cellular structure and function. She investigates this molecular entanglement using a combination of topological (3-manifold) techniques and occasionally biochemical experiments. \nShe’s currently a professor at Duke\, after faculty positions in the US (Brown and Johns Hopkins) and the UK\, and much earlier an NSF postdoc and PhD with advisors in both Math and Molecular Biology.  After many years at the bench\, she now collaborates with experimental and computational experts.  She’s been the recipient of over $5M in grants\, which has funded both her own research and her large team\, as well as projects with architects and an Artist in Residence.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/molecular-pasta/
LOCATION:Argue Auditorium\, Pomona College\, 610 N. College Ave.\, Claremont\, CA\, 91711\, United States
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SUMMARY:Claremont History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar: Iris Clever (UChicago)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Iris Clever\, University of Chicago \nTitle: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity: From Skull Science to Biometrics \nAbstract: In this presentation\, I uncover an overlooked genealogy of biometrics\, tracing it back to early 20th-century race science and the rise of statistical thinking about human identity. Before biometrics became a technology of controlling human identity\, it was a science aimed at understanding human diversity\, specifically racial diversity. I examine the emergence of craniometry in the 19th century and how its methodologies paved the way for a novel approach to racial anthropology driven by mathematical statistics in the early 20th century. Finally\, I explore the postwar development of computerized anthropology. \nFMI (or zoom link): jlorenat [at] pitzer.edu
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/claremont-history-and-philosophy-of-mathematics-seminar-iris-clever-uchicago/
LOCATION:Founders Room\, Pitzer College
CATEGORIES:History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar
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