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Algebra/Number Theory/Combinatorics Seminars

The Algebra/Number Theory/Combinatorics Seminar of the Claremont Colleges meets on Tuesdays, 12:15 - 1:10 PM.

In Fall 2009, we are meeting at Millikan 208, Pomona College, Department of Mathematics.

The Millikan Laboratory of Pomona College is located at 610 N. College Ave. (Corner of 6th and College Ave.) Click here for a map of the Pomona Campus.

For more information about the Seminar, or to suggest speakers, contact: Lenny Fukshansky email: lenny@cmc.edu and visit HERE for the past seminar archives.

Next Algebra/Number Theory/Combinatorics Seminar Speaker

Spring 2010 Algebra/Number Theory/Combinatorics Seminars

Date:sort iconTitle:Speaker:
Jan/26/2010Organizational meetingEveryone
Feb/02/2010Revisiting the hexagonal lattice: on optimal lattice circle packingLenny Fukshansky (CMC)
Feb/09/2010Counting points on hypersurfacesDaqing Wan (UC Irvine)
Feb/16/2010Disjoint chains and matchings in posetsShahriar Shahriari (Pomona College)
Feb/23/2010Quadratic forms over number ringsLarry Gerstein (UC Santa Barbara)
Mar/02/2010Blackboard biracksSam Nelson (CMC)
Mar/09/2010Sums of triangular numbersWai Kiu Chan (Wesleyan University)
Mar/23/2010Incomplete character sums over finite fieldsMei-Chu Chang (UC Riverside)
Mar/30/2010Approximating the permanent of a matrix with nonnegative entriesMark Huber (Claremont McKenna College)
Apr/06/2010Random surfacesNicholas Pippenger (HMC)
Apr/13/2010Extremal and Probabilistic CombinatoricsChoongbum Lee (UCLA)
Apr/20/2010TBATim Ridenour (UC Riverside)
Apr/27/2010The combinatorialization of linear recurrencesArt Benjamin (HMC)
May/04/2010TBAChris Towse (Scripps College)

Fall 2009 Algebra/Number Theory/Combinatorics Seminars

Date:sort iconTitle:Speaker:
Sep/08/2009Organizational meetingEveryone
Sep/15/2009Simulation reductions for the Ising modelMark Huber (Claremont McKenna College)
Sep/22/2009The peculiar phase structure of random graph bisectionAllon Percus (Claremont Graduate University)
Sep/29/2009Khovanov homology and the Jones polynomialSam Nelson (CMC)
Oct/06/2009Generating an algebra from the probabilistic standpointBogdan Petrenko (SUNY Brockport)
Oct/13/2009Tests of uniformity for rank data, the symmetric group, and framesMichael Orrison (Harvey Mudd College)
Oct/27/2009Fourier analysis, linear programming, and densities of distance avoiding setsFrank Vallentin (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Nov/03/2009Fields of norms and p-adic dynamical systemsGhassan Sarkis (Pomona College)
Nov/10/2009The typical structure of graphs without given excluded subgraphsJozsef Balogh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Nov/17/2009Neighborhood complexes and rational generating functionsKevin Woods (Oberlin College)
Nov/24/2009Ranks of polynomialsZach Teitler (Texas A&M University)
Dec/01/2009Real quadratic analogues of traces of singular moduliWilliam Duke (UCLA)
Dec/08/2009The Euclidean algorithm and primitive rootsKate Petersen (Florida State University)

Spring 2009 Algebra/Number Theory/Combinatorics Seminars

Date:sort iconTitle:Speaker:
Jan/27/2009Energy Minimizing Spherical Codes and DesignsAchill Schurmann (University of Magdeburg)
Feb/03/2009Toric Symmetry in Gromov-Witten Theory Dagan Karp (Harvey Mudd College)
Feb/10/2009Bulgarian solitaire and related operations on partitions Brian Hopkins (Saint Peter's College)
Feb/17/2009Non-Archimedean dynamics of power seriesGhassan Sarkis (Pomona College)
Feb/24/2009Card shuffling and connections to representation theoryLerna Pehlivan (University of Southern California)
Mar/03/2009On heights of algebraic numbersLenny Fukshansky (Claremont McKenna College)
Mar/10/2009Strong approximation for quadricsWai Kiu Chan (Wesleyan University)
Mar/24/2009The Distribution of the Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit CircleMihai Stoiciu (Williams College)
Mar/31/2009Iterated Partitions of TrianglesRonald Graham (University of California San Diego)
Apr/07/2009Simultaneous Diophantine equations with side constraints: an elementary methodStephan Garcia (Pomona College)
Apr/14/2009Achievable pebbling numbersCindy Wyels (Cal State University Channel Islands)
Apr/21/2009Combinatorial Representation Theory - Old and New (MSRI video)Georgia Benkart (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Apr/28/2009Two Million Dollars of Math: An Introduction to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer ConjectureChristopher Towse (Scripps College)
May/05/2009Fun with Cyclotomic PolynomialsGary Brookfield (California State University Los Angeles)

Fall 2008 Algebra/Number Theory/Combinatorics Seminars

Date:sort iconTitle:Speaker:
Sep/09/2008Organizational meetingAll interested Claremont faculty invited!
Sep/16/2008Interlocking Linkages Julie Glass (California State University East Bay)
Sep/23/2008On Siegel's lemma Lenny Fukshansky (Claremont McKenna College)
Sep/30/2008A very brief introduction to fields of normsGhassan Sarkis (Pomona College)
Oct/07/2008Inconsistencies with Nonparametric Procedures and Statistics: Combinatoric and Asymptotic ResultsAnna E. Bargagliotti (University of Memphis)
Oct/14/2008More algebraic structures from knot theorySam Nelson (Claremont McKenna College)
Oct/28/2008The Applied Mathematics of the Nottingham Group Jonathan Lubin (Brown University - emeritus)
Nov/04/2008An introduction to Gromov-Witten theoryDagan Karp (Harvey Mudd College)
Nov/11/2008GroupoidificationAlex Hoffnung (University of California Riverside)
Nov/18/2008Bounds on self-dual codes and latticesEric Rains (Caltech)
Nov/25/2008Beyond MoonshineGeoffrey Buhl (California State University Channel Island)
Dec/02/2008Using Group Theory and Graph Theory to Build Fast CommunicationsNetworks: A Brief Introduction to Expanders and Ramanujan GraphMike Krebs (California State University Los Angeles)
Dec/09/2008Minimal Triangulations of Cubes and SimplotopesFrancis Su (Harvey Mudd College)

Fall 2007 Algebra/Number Theory/Combinatorics Seminars

Date:sort iconTitle:Speaker:
Nov/27/2007Representations of twisted loop algebras and their block decompositions Prasad Senesi (University of California, Riverside)