• GEMS April 4th Session

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

    This GEMS session will be facilitated by Evan Rosenman from Claremont McKenna College Title: Fair Votes? The Mathematics of Elections and Redistricting Abstract: How do we know if an election is fair? […]

  • Extremal Eigenvalues of Weighted Steklov Problems (Chiu-Yen Kao, CMC)

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

    Abstract: We study the optimization of Steklov eigenvalues with respect to a boundary density function ρ on a bounded Lipschitz domain. We investigate the minimization and maximization of a Steklov […]

  • The Secret Life of Turbulent Fluids (Vincent Martinez, Caltech)

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

    Abstract: Turbulence influences our lives in a multitude of ways, ranging from the mundane (when we stir milk into our coffee) to the spectacular (the formation of galaxies). It is […]

  • An Exact Algorithm for the Unanimous Vote Problem (Feyza Duman Keles, NYU)

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

    Abstract: Consider n independent, biased coins, each with a known probability of heads. Presented with an ordering of these coins, flip (i.e., toss) each coin once, in that order, until […]

  • GEMS September 5th Session

    Shanahan 3481, Harvey Mudd College 320 E. Foothill Blvd., Claremont, CA, United States

    This GEMS session will be facilitated by Professor Qidi Peng and William Wu from Claremont Graduate University. Title: How to create a die if you only have a coin? Abstract: Imagine you […]

  • GEMS October 3rd Session

    Shanahan 3481, Harvey Mudd College 320 E. Foothill Blvd., Claremont, CA, United States

    This GEMS session will be facilitated by Professor Chiu-Yen Kao from Claremont McKenna College. Title: The Magic of 0s and 1s Abstract: Have you ever wondered how data in a computer is stored? In this talk, we'll crack open the binary numeral system, the simple code of 0s and 1s that represents everything on your […]

  • If a Statistical Model Predicts That Common Events Should Occur Only Once in 10,000 Elections, Maybe it’s the Wrong Model (Danny Ebanks, Cal Tech)

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

    Political scientists forecast elections, not primarily to satisfy public interest, but to validate statistical models used for estimating quantities of scholarly interest. Although scholars have learned a great deal from these models, they can be embarrassingly overconfident: Events that should occur once in 10,000 elections occur almost every year, and even those that should occur […]