Claremont Colleges Mathematics Colloquia
The Claremont Colleges present Mathematics Colloquia on every Wednesday, 4:15 - 5:15 pm.
For more information or to suggest speakers, please contact Dr. Mario Martelli. Email: mmartelli@cmc.edu
Next Math Colloquium Speaker
Fall 2009 Math Colloquia
Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Dec/09/2009 | TBA | Winston Ou, Scripps College |
| Dec/02/2009 | TBA | Kevin Woods, Oberlin College |
| Nov/25/2009 | No Colloquium Tonight | No Colloquium |
| Nov/18/2009 | Better numerical integration through randomness | Mark Huber, Claremont McKenna College |
| Nov/11/2009 | Extremal Graph Theory and its Applications | Professor Benjamin Sudakov, UCLA |
| Nov/04/2009 | Reflexive Polygons, Complex Tori, and Elliptic Curves | Charles Doran University of Alberta and University of Washington |
| Oct/28/2009 | An Introduction to Surface Tension (Or Why Raindrops are Spherical) | Andy Bernoff, Chair Harvey Mudd College |
| Oct/21/2009 | Who's Mining the Text? | Ashish Bhan, CGU Math and Keck Graduate Institute |
| Oct/14/2009 | An Introduction to Geometric Data Analysis and its Possible Applications | Jen-Mei Chang, Professor, Cal State Long Beach |
| Oct/07/2009 | Between Compactness and Completeness | Gerald Beer, California State University, Los Angeles |
| Sep/30/2009 | The Game of Life (and Sudden Death): Predicting Cardiac Instabilties at Multiple Scales with Nonlinear Stochastic Models | Robert Rovetti Loyola Marymount University |
| Sep/23/2009 | Alvin White and Humanistic Mathematics | Reuben Hersh University of New Mexico |
| Sep/16/2009 | Poster Session Claremont Colleges' Math Students - Summer 2009 | REBMI and CCMS sponsors |
| Sep/09/2009 | The Combinatorial Revolution in Knot Theory | Sam Nelson Claremont McKenna College |
Spring 2008 Math Colloquia
Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Jan/30/2008 | Phase Models with Time Delay | Sue Ann Campbell (University of Waterloo, Canada) |
| Feb/06/2008 | OSCILLATIONS AND DELAYS IN DRUG | Jacques Belair |
| Feb/13/2008 | TBA | Carlos Castillo-Chavez |
| Feb/20/2008 | TBA | Susan Martonosi |
| Feb/27/2008 | TBA | Harish Bhat |
| Mar/05/2008 | #CANCELLED# The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set | Robert Devaney (Boston University) |
| Mar/12/2008 | TBA | Ross William |
| Mar/26/2008 | The Mathematics of the Bluegrass Banjo | Joti Rockwell (Pomona College, Music Department) |
| Apr/02/2008 | Peaks, Passes and Pits: From Topography to Topology via Quantum Mechanics | John Roe (Penn State University, University Park in PA) |
| Apr/09/2008 | Combinatorial Reciprocity Theorems | Mathias Beck (San Francisco State University) |
| Apr/16/2008 | Mathematical insights into phage therapy: Using phages to combat bacterial infections. | Hal Smith (Arizona State University) |
| Apr/23/2008 | TBA | Yang Kuang |
| Apr/30/2008 | TBA | Michael Shearer |
| May/07/2008 | TBA | Mario Martelli |
Fall 2007 Math Colloquia
| Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Sep/12/2007 | Critical points and solvability of boundary value problems | Dr. Alfonso Castro (Chair, Harvey Mudd College Math Department) |
| Sep/17/2007 | The backward shift on Dirichlet-type spaces | Stephan Garcia (Pomona College) |
| Sep/19/2007 | Why Did Lagrange Prove the Parallel Postulate? | Dr. Judith Grabiner (Pitzer College) |
| Sep/26/2007 | Optimization of a delay-differential model of the immune response to cancer vaccines | Dr. Ami Radunskaya ( Pomona College ) |
| Oct/03/2007 | The Impact of Ballistics on Mathematics | Dr. Shawn McMurran (California State University, San Bernardino) |
| Oct/10/2007 | How mathematics departments can improve prospective teachers' mathematical content knowledge for teaching | Dr. Stacy Brown (Pitzer and Claremont McKenna Colleges) |
| Oct/17/2007 | Recent Insights into A^{\infty} and the Jones Factorization Theorem | Dr. Winston Ou (Scripps College) |
| Oct/31/2007 | Scary boundaries and harmonic measures | Dr. Michael O'Neill (Claremont McKenna College) |
| Nov/07/2007 | Sphere Packing, Lattices, and Epstein zeta function | Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College |
| Nov/14/2007 | Compressive Sampling | Prof. Emmanuel Candes, California Institute of Technology |
| Nov/19/2007 | Banach Algebras of continuous functions and measures, and their second duals | H.G. Dales (Leeds College, UK) |
| Nov/28/2007 | Beaucoup de Sudoku | Michael Krebs (California State University, Los Angeles) |