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SUMMARY:Our muscles aren't one-dimensional fibres (Prof. Nilima Nigam)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Our muscles aren’t one-dimensional fibres. \nAbstract: Skeletal muscles possess rather amazing mechanical properties. They possess an intricate structure\, and behave nonlinearly in response to mechanical stresses.  In the 1910s\,  A.V. Hill observed muscles heat when they contract\, but not when they relax.  Based on experiments on frogs he posited a mathematical description of skeletal muscles which approximated muscle as a 1-dimensional nonlinear and massless spring. This has been a remarkably successful model\, and remains in wide use. Recently\, we’ve realized that skeletal muscle is three dimensional\, has mass\, and fairly complicated structure. I’ll present some work on a mathematical model which captures some of this complexity. \nDr. Nilima Nigam is Professor at Simon Fraser University.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/nilima-nigam/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T161500
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SUMMARY:Finding soap films in non-Euclidean geometry (Prof. David Bachman)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Finding soap films in non-Euclidean geometry \nAbstract: In many computer graphics applications we approximate a smooth surface with one made up of tiny triangles. A common problem is to determine which way to move the vertices (the corners of the triangles)\, so that the total surface area decreases. If the boundary of the surface remains fixed\, this allows us to find the soap film surface spanned by that boundary curve. In Euclidean geometry this leads to the famous “cotan-Laplace formula.” After reviewing this formula we will introduce spherical and hyperbolic space\, and discuss a solution to the same problem in those geometries.  \nDr. Bachman is Professor of Mathematics at Pitzer College and Director of the Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/david-bachman/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210303T161500
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DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20210204T003334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210221T214207Z
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SUMMARY:Ioana Dumitriu
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Spectral gap in random regular graphs and hypergraphs \nAbstract: Random graphs and hypergraphs have been used for decades to model large-scale networks\, from biological\, to electrical\, and to social. Various random graphs (and their not-so-random properties) have been connected to algorithms solving problems from community detection to matrix completion\, coding theory\, and various other statistics / machine learning fundamental questions; in the past decade\, this research area has expanded to include random hypergraphs. One of these special properties is the spectral gap for graph-associated matrices; roughly speaking\, it means that the main eigenvalue(s) are well-separated from the bulk and it guarantees strong connectivity properties. This talk will take a look at the spectra of adjacency / Laplacian matrices for some random regular models\, explain how we know that the spectral gap is there\, and connect spectral properties to the aforementioned applications. It will cover joint work with Gerandy Brito\, Kameron Decker Harris\, and Yizhe Zhu.  \nIoana Dumitriu is a Professor of Mathematics at The University of California\, San Diego.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/ioana-dumitru/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200917T150401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201109T195216Z
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SUMMARY:Prof. Gregory DeAngelo
DESCRIPTION:Title:  The Effect of Criminal Justice Decisions on Community Safety \nAbstract: During this talk we will\, time permitting\, examine several law enforcement actor’s impact on community safety\, including law enforcement\, prosecutors and judges. To start\, we examine the impact of law enforcement race and gender on use of force. We first show that conditioning on arrests has the potential to greatly impact the results obtained. Instead\, we make use of an instrumental variable approach to examine the as-if random assignment of officers to calls for service. Leveraging this randomness\, we identify the effect of officer race and gender on the likelihood that force is used during the call. Next\, we focus our attention on prosecutors and leverage a unique situation where prosecutors are no longer able to pursue low-level drug charges. In the absence of such charges\, we examine the impact of not prosecuting low-level drug offenses on drug overdoses and drug abuse admissions. Finally\, we examine the effect of an exogenous increase in judge salaries on the likelihood that cases are overturned on appeal. \nProf. Gregory DeAngelo is an Associate Professor of Economic Sciences at the Claremont Graduate University
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/prof-gregory-deangelo/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Andrew Bernoff":MAILTO:ajb@hmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201111T161500
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CREATED:20200820T205435Z
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SUMMARY:Prof. Eva Kanso
DESCRIPTION:Title: Sea star locomotion \nAbstract: The oral surface of sea stars (starfish) is lined with arrays of tube feet that enable them to achieve highly controlled locomotion on various terrains and to even gallop and bounce. The activity of the tube feet is orchestrated by a nerve net that is distributed throughout the body; there is no central brain. How such a decentralized nervous system produces a coordinated locomotion is yet to be understood. To examine the sensorimotor control underlying the sea star locomotory behavior\, we developed mathematical models of the biomechanics and sensorimotor control of the tube feet. In these models\, the feet are soft actuators that are coupled mechanically through their structural connection to the sea star body\, and whose power and recovery strokes are dictated by local sensori-feedback control loops. We found that these minimally-coupled tube feet coordinate to generate robust forward locomotion\, reminiscent of the crawling motion of sea stars. We also found that the sea star model can transition from crawling to bouncing\, and it can robustly locomote on various terrains\, and under various heterogeneity in the tube feet parameters and initial conditions\, akin to experimental observations. These findings improve our understanding of the Echinoderms decentralized nervous system and could lead to novel designs and control rules for autonomous robotic systems. \nProf. Eva Kanso is a Professor and the Z.H. Kaprielian Fellow in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/prof-eva-kanso/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T161500
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SUMMARY:Prof. Sarah Marzen
DESCRIPTION:Title: Training dynamical systems to predict their input \nAbstract: Evolved systems seem to predict their environment.  Even bacteria can implicitly predict future concentrations of scarce sugar or antibiotics\, and emerging evidence suggests that even our retinae are able to predict what we see.  How?  We explore some basic design principles for what causes a system to predict its input\, finishing with a call to arms for mathematicians to develop a better framework for understanding input-dependent dynamical systems or recurrent networks. \nProf. Marzen is Assistant Professor of Physics at Claremont’s Keck Science Department.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/prof-sarah-marzen/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T161500
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CREATED:20200910T153940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T211225Z
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SUMMARY:Prof. Stephan Ramon Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Title: Combinatorics and the Kitchen Sink \nAbstract:  Numerical semigroups are simple combinatorial objects that lead to deep and subtle questions.  We answer in one fell swoop virtually all asymptotic questions about factorization lengths in numerical semigroups.  Surprisingly\, this uses tools from complex\, harmonic\, and functional analysis\, probability theory\, algebraic combinatorics\, and computer-aided design!  Our results yield uncannily accurate predictions that agree with numerical computations\, along with some totally unexpected byproducts. \nThis work was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-1800123.  Joint work with A. Böttcher\, M. Omar\, C.O’Neill\, and Pomona undergraduate students T. Wesley (’21) and S.Yih (’18). \nProf. Garcia is the W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/prof-stephan-ramon-garcia/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Andrew Bernoff":MAILTO:ajb@hmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201007T161500
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CREATED:20200820T205249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200913T173147Z
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SUMMARY:Prof. Satyan Devadoss
DESCRIPTION:Title: Unsolved Mathematics at Burning Man \nAbstract: Rising 12 feet tall with an 18-foot wingspan\, a 2-ton unfolding dodecahedron comes to life at Burning Man\, the world’s most influential large-scale sculpture showcase.  The artwork is illuminated by 16\,000 LEDs\, requiring 6500 build-hours and $50\,000 in donated funds\, with an interior large enough to hold 15 people and fully-lined with massive mirrors. \nThis sculpture alludes to a tantalizing open problem in mathematics on unfolding polyhedra\, tracing its origins back 500 years to the Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer.  We discuss the state-of-the-art for this geometric puzzle\, consider solutions to some higher-dimensional unfolding analogs\, and place this example in a larger quest to bring the edge of mathematical knowledge to the general public. \nProf. Devadoss is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science at University of San Diego.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/prof-satyan-devadoss/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200820T205018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200828T022601Z
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SUMMARY:Prof. Jemma Lorenat
DESCRIPTION:Title: A competent translation/a pitiful bungle: The Foundations of Geometry \nAbstract: David Hilbert’s Grundlagen der Geometrie is a rare example of a historical mathematics text that is still profitably read today and continues to inspire research in mathematics\, computer science\, and philosophy. \nThe effort of publishing an English translation of Hilbert in 1902 involved a diverse swath of the American mathematical community.  Edgar Jerome Townsend completed a first draft of his authorized translation in a few weeks\, but the process of creating a successful publication involved negotiations\, corrections\, and attention to detail that continued well after the first edition appeared in print. Meanwhile\, published and private texts that circulated around the English edition contained conflicting conclusions with respect to the quality of the translation\, the book’s audience\, and the parameters of a scholarly critique. This talk sheds light on American mathematics at a pivotal time in its history and raises questions about the language and form of mathematical texts that continue to be relevant today. \nProf. Lorenat is Assistant Professor at Pitzer College.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/prof-jemma-lorenat/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200923T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200923T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200921T222333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200922T173826Z
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SUMMARY:Student Research Presentations II
DESCRIPTION:4:20pm\nTitle: Measuring Publication Bias in Foreign Language Editions of Russian State-Owned Media Company RT\nPresenter: Benjamin Figueroa (CMC) \n4:30pm\nTitle:Multilingual Emoticon Prediction of Tweets about COVID-19\nPresenter: Stefanos Stoikos (Pomona)\,  \n4:40pm\nTitle: Evaluating Word Embeddings on Low-Resource Languages\nPresenter: Nathan Stringham (Pomona)\,  \n4:50pm\nTitle: An Epistemic Logic of Desires\, Part I\nPresenters: Rui-Jie Yew (Scripps) and Wendy Zhang (Scripps)\,  \n5:00pm\nTitle: An Epistemic Logic of Desires\, Part II\nPresenters: Rui-Jie Yew (Scripps) and Wendy Zhang (Scripps)\,  \nPresenters have a total of 10 minutes for talk and Q&A.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/student-poster-session-ii/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200923T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200923T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200921T223309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200921T224529Z
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SUMMARY:Student Research Presentations III
DESCRIPTION:4:20\nTitle: Nested Links\, Linking Matrices\, and Crushtaceans\nPresenter: Madeline Brown (Scripps)  \n4:30\nTitle: Computing Cube Decisions for Backgammon Endgame Positions\nPresenter: Mathus Leungpathomaram (HMC) \n4:40\nTitle: The Limiting Spectral Measure for an Ensemble of Generalized Checkerboard Matrices\nPresenter: Jiahui Yu (Pomona) \n4:50\nTitle: The Stationary Distribution of Recombination\, Part I\nPresenters: Emma Kolesnik (Scripps)\, Sherry Hua (Pitzer)\, Ethan Ong (Pomona) \n5:00\nTitle: The Stationary Distribution of Recombination\, Part II\nPresenters: Emma Kolesnik (Scripps)\, Sherry Hua (Pitzer)\, Ethan Ong (Pomona) \n5:10\nTitle: The Stationary Distribution of Recombination\, Part III\nPresenters: Emma Kolesnik (Scripps)\, Sherry Hua (Pitzer)\, Ethan Ong (Pomona) \nPresenters have a total of 10 minutes for talk and Q&A
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/student-research-presentations-iii/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200923T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200923T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200917T223556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T230011Z
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SUMMARY:Student Research Presentations: I
DESCRIPTION:4:20 pm\nTitle: Methodology of Global Sensitivity Analysis for Determination of Important Parameters in a Mathematical Model\nPresenter: An Do (CGU) \n4:30 pm\nTitle: Using Data Science to gain insights into the relationship between Metagenomics and Psychiatric Disorders\nPresenter: Tom Fu (HMC) \n4:40 pm\nTitle: Classifying time series data via manifold techniques\nPresenter: Adam Guo (Pomona) \n4:50 pm\nTitle: Finding stability within chaos: Part I\nPresenter: Rafa Martinez-Avial\, Siddharth Namachivayam  (Pomona) \n5:00 pm\nTitle: Finding stability within chaos: Part II\nPresenter: Rafa Martinez-Avial\, Siddharth Namachivayam  (Pomona) \nPresenters have a total of 10 minutes for talk and Q & A
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/student-poster-session/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200916T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200916T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200813T145226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200813T215229Z
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SUMMARY:Prof. Kiran Kedlaya
DESCRIPTION:Title: Space vectors forming rational angles \nAbstract:\nWe classify all possible configurations of vectors in three-dimensional space with the property that any two of the vectors form an angle whose measure is a rational multiple of π. As a corollary\, we find all tetrahedra whose six dihedral angles are all rational multiples of π.While these questions (and their answers) are of an elementary nature\, their resolution will take us on a tour through cyclotomic number fields\, computational algebraic geometry\, and an amazing fact about the geometry of tetrahedra discovered by two physicists in the 1960s. Joint work with Sasha Kolpakov\, Bjorn Poonen\, and Michael Rubinstein. \nDr Kedlaya is Professor of Mathematics and the Stefan E. Warschawski Chair in Mathematics at the University of California\, San Diego.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/kiran-kedlaya/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200909T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200909T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200820T204513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200821T163948Z
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SUMMARY:Prof. Sam Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Title: Experimental Knot Music \nAbstract: In knot theory\, there are algebraic structures we can use to distinguish different types of knots and links. In this talk we will ask an unexpected question: what do they sound like? We will see a number of techniques I have been developing for interpreting knot-theoretic structures as elements of musical composition. \nProf. Nelson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Claremont McKenna College.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/prof-sam-nelson/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200902T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200902T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200813T143848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200813T151646Z
UID:1963-1599063300-1599066900@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Prof. Edray Goins
DESCRIPTION:Title: Indiana Pols Forced to Eat Humble Pi\, The Curious History of an Irrational Number \nSpeaker: Prof. Edray Goins\, Pomona College \nIn 1897\, Indiana physician Edwin J. Goodwin believed he had discovered a way to square the circle\, and proposed a bill to Indiana Representative Taylor I. Record which would secure Indiana’s the claim to fame for his discovery. About the time the debate about the bill concluded\, Purdue University professor Clarence A. Waldo serendipitously came across the claimed discovery\, and pointed out its mathematical impossibility to the lawmakers. It had only be shown just 15 years before\, by the German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann\, that it was impossible to square the circle because π is an irrational number. This fodder became ignominiously known as the “Indiana Pi Bill” as Goodwin’s result would force π = 3.2. \nIn this talk\, we review this humorous history of the irrationality of π. We introduce a method to compute its digits\, present Lindemann’s proof of its irrationality (following a simplification by Miklós Laczkovich)\, discuss the relationship with the Hermite-Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem\, and explain how Edwin J. Goodwin came to his erroneous conclusion in the first place.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/edray-goins/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200826T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200826T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200813T144427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200820T165157Z
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SUMMARY:Welcome Back Party
DESCRIPTION:David Bachman\, chair of the CCMS Executive Committee\, hosts.  \nPlease join us as we welcome our new community members\, socialize\, and discuss how we’re all going to cope with the semester ahead. Grab a snack\, a refreshing beverage\, and get on-line!
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/colloquium-kick-off-party/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20190830T195416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200108T212845Z
UID:1461-1588781700-1588785300@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Shahriar Shahriari
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/tba-25/
LOCATION:Freeberg Forum\, LC 62\, Kravis Center\, CMC
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200429T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200429T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20190830T195308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T015520Z
UID:1459-1588176900-1588180500@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Kiran S. Kedlaya
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/tba-24/
LOCATION:Argue Auditorium\, Pomona College\, 610 N. College Ave.\, Claremont\, CA\, 91711\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20190830T195201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200128T000316Z
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SUMMARY:Eva Kanso: How sea stars move
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/eva-kanso/
LOCATION:Freeberg Forum\, LC 62\, Kravis Center\, CMC
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20190830T195045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200108T212009Z
UID:1455-1586967300-1586970900@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Mike Izbicki
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/tba-23/
LOCATION:Freeberg Forum\, LC 62\, Kravis Center\, CMC
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200408T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200408T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20190830T194745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T015659Z
UID:1451-1586362500-1586366100@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Satyan Devadoss: Unfolding Mathematics at Burning Man
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/tba-21/
LOCATION:Freeberg Forum\, LC 62\, Kravis Center\, CMC
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200401T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200401T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200108T205641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200220T030820Z
UID:1705-1585757700-1585761300@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Dagan Karp: Tropical Geometry and Moduli Spaces
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I’ll attempt to give an introduction to the beautiful world of tropical geometry. As an application\, I’ll describe work with Siddarth Kannan (Pomona 2018) and Shiyue Li (Mudd 2017) using tropical geometry to compute the cohomology of certain moduli spaces\, called heavy/light Hassett spaces\, which are of interest in a wide range of areas\, including the minimal model program and enumerative geometry.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/dagan-karp/
LOCATION:Freeberg Forum\, LC 62\, Kravis Center\, CMC
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200325T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200325T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20190830T194534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200219T181313Z
UID:1447-1585152900-1585156500@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:A competent translation/a pitiful bungle: The Foundations of Geometry (Jemma Lorenat)
DESCRIPTION:David Hilbert’s Grundlagen der Geometrie is a rare example of a historical mathematics text that is still profitably read today and continues to inspire research in mathematics\, computer science\, and philosophy. \nThe effort of publishing an English translation of Hilbert in 1902 involved a diverse swath of the American mathematical community.  Edgar Jerome Townsend completed a first draft of his authorized translation in a few weeks\, but the process of creating a successful publication involved negotiations\, corrections\, and attention to detail that continued well after the first edition appeared in print. Meanwhile\, published and private texts that circulated around the English edition contained conflicting conclusions with respect to the quality of the translation\, the book’s audience\, and the parameters of a scholarly critique. This talk sheds light on American mathematics at a pivotal time in its history and raises questions about the language and form of mathematical texts that continue to be relevant today.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/tba-19/
LOCATION:Freeberg Forum\, LC 62\, Kravis Center\, CMC
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20190830T194437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200309T185328Z
UID:1445-1583943300-1583946900@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Edray Goins: Indiana Pols Forced to Eat Humble Pi\, The Curious History of an Irrational Number
DESCRIPTION:In 1897\, Indiana physician Edwin J. Goodwin believed he had discovered a way to square the circle\, and proposed a bill to Indiana Representative Taylor I. Record which would secure Indiana’s the claim to fame for his discovery. About the time the debate about the bill concluded\, Purdue University professor Clarence A. Waldo serendipitously came across the claimed discovery\, and pointed out its mathematical impossibility to the lawmakers. It had only be shown just 15 years before\, by the German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann\, that it was impossible to square the circle because π is an irrational number. This fodder became ignominiously known as the “Indiana Pi Bill” as Goodwin’s result would force $\pi = 3.2$. \nIn this talk\, we review this humorous history of the irrationality of $\pi$. We introduce a method to compute its digits\, present Lindemann’s proof of its irrationality (following a simplification by Miklo ́s Laczkovich)\, discuss the relationship with the Hermite-Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem\, and explain how Edwin J. Goodwin came to his erroneous conclusion in the first place.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/tba-18/
LOCATION:Freeberg Forum\, LC 62\, Kravis Center\, CMC
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20190830T194342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200227T181351Z
UID:1443-1583338500-1583342100@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Christopher Strickland: Modeling the prescription opioid epidemic
DESCRIPTION:Opioid addiction has become a national health crisis in recent years\, with involvement in 66% of all drug overdose deaths in 2016 and high economic costs. In contrast to the dynamics of a classic disease or illicit drug epidemic\, opioid addiction has its roots in legal\, prescription medication – a fact which greatly increases the exposed population and mathematically suggests non-contact based routes of infection. \nIn this talk\, I will present a first epidemic model for opioid addiction and treatment. Through analysis of our model\, we show that existence of an addiction-free equilibrium requires transforming the opioid dynamics into that of a purely illicit drug epidemic and that lacking prescription-induced addiction\, the prescription drug epidemic may not be self-sustaining. Numerical analysis suggests specific targets for control. Following this\, I will present preliminary results from a new model that examines the role of heroin and fentanyl on the epidemic in the context of data from the state of Tennessee. These results include a strong fit between model and data\, and among other conclusions\, suggest that an epidemic involving powerful\, illicit opioids is now both self-sustaining and strongly on the rise despite a decline in prescription-based addictions. \n \n 
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/tba-17/
LOCATION:Freeberg Forum\, LC 62\, Kravis Center\, CMC
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20190830T174358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T200806Z
UID:1440-1582733700-1582737300@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Energy optimization on the sphere
DESCRIPTION:Many problems\, arising in discrete and metric geometry\, signal processing\, physics\, etc\, can be reformulated as questions of optimizing discrete or continuous measures. We shall review some of such conjectures\, as well as approaches to determining optimal (or at least good) point distributions and measures\, and connections to other problems\, such as discrepancy\, sphere packings etc. We shall also discuss several manifestations of the phenomenon of clustering of minimizing measures\, which is often observed theoretically\, numerically\, or experimentally: in many situations\, in particular for some attractive-repulsive potentials\, the minimizers of the energy integral happen to be discrete or supported on very thin sets.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/dmitriy-bilyk/
LOCATION:Freeberg Forum\, LC 62\, Kravis Center\, CMC
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20190830T174311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200216T235639Z
UID:1438-1582128900-1582132500@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Nano Knot theory\, methods to study tiny knot in nature
DESCRIPTION:Knotting in living organisms is a feature that is visible to the careful observer of biological life.  Since the 1970’s\, with the increasing power of electron microscopes\, scientists have been able to capture images of such structures in living organisms at near atomic levels.  We will explore the mathematics of knotting that has provided tools study these phenomena and\, time permitting\, describe new methods being developed to analyze these spatial structure.  
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/ken-millett/
LOCATION:Freeberg Forum\, LC 62\, Kravis Center\, CMC
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T160000
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200127T151809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200211T172222Z
UID:1797-1582038000-1582041600@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Kenneth Millett (University of California\, Santa Barbara)
DESCRIPTION:Gordian Knots According to the legend of Phrygian Gordium\, Alexander the Great cut the “Gordian Knot’’ and eventually went on to rule Asia thereby fulfilling an ancient prophecy.  Where there are several descriptions of the precise nature of the Gordian Knot and Alexander’s action\, an explicit mathematical treatment (the theory of thick knots) and the reasons for its contemporary interest will be discussed.  The first simple example of such a Gordian Knotted Structure supported by a rigorous mathematical analysis will be presented.  
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/kenneth-millett-university-of-california-santa-barbara/
LOCATION:Millikan 2099\, Pomona College\, 610 N. College Ave.\, Claremont\, CA\, 91711\, United States
CATEGORIES:Topology Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20200211T172146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200211T172146Z
UID:1865-1582038000-1582038000@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Ken Millett (UCSB)
DESCRIPTION:Gordian Knots \nAccording to the legend of Phrygian Gordium\, Alexander the Great cut the “Gordian Knot’’ and eventually went on to rule Asia thereby fulfilling an ancient prophecy.  Where there are several descriptions of the precise nature of the Gordian Knot and Alexander’s action\, an explicit mathematical treatment (the theory of thick knots) and the reasons for its contemporary interest will be discussed.  The first simple example of such a Gordian Knotted Structure supported by a rigorous mathematical analysis will be presented.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/ken-millett-ucsb/
LOCATION:Millikan 2099\, Pomona College\, 610 N. College Ave.\, Claremont\, CA\, 91711\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Helen Wong":MAILTO:hwong@cmc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T171500
DTSTAMP:20260409T105714
CREATED:20190830T174207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200210T182301Z
UID:1436-1581524100-1581527700@colleges.claremont.edu
SUMMARY:Applications of Markov Chains to Swarm Robotics and Political Redistricting
DESCRIPTION:What do swarm robotics and political redistricting have in common? One answer is Markov chains\, which have recently been used in very different ways to address problems in both these areas. To get a large swarm to exhibit a desired behavior\, one solution is to make each individual in the swarm fairly intelligent; another is to make the individuals simple\, but to let the desired behavior emerge as a result of their interactions. My collaborators and I recently used Markov chains and ideas from statistical physics to develop distributed algorithms that follow this second paradigm.  We also worked with physicists to create a physical robot system where each individual cannot compute anything\, but the system as a whole can still accomplish complex tasks. For political redistricting\, the main mathematical technique developed in the last few years for detecting gerrymandering is to compare a proposed plan to the space of all possible alternative plans; if the proposed plan is an outlier\, that’s an indicator it might be gerrymandered. However\, the space of all possible districting plans is far too large to ever be studied in its entirety.  Instead\, Markov chains are used to generate random samples of alternative plans\, where the hope is that the sampled plans are reasonably representative of all possible plans. This approach has already been used successfully in court cases around the country\, though questions still remain about what mathematical guarantees we can give about the randomly sampled districting plans.
URL:https://colleges.claremont.edu/ccms/event/tba-16/
LOCATION:Freeberg Forum\, LC 62\, Kravis Center\, CMC
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Blerta Shtylla":MAILTO:shtyllab@pomona.edu
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