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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

Spring 2010 Math Colloquia

Date:sort iconTitle:Speakers:
Jan/27/2010Ennio De Giorgi (1928-1996): A profile of an outstanding mathematician of the 20th centuryProf. Alfonso Vignoli, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma Due, Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
Feb/03/2010Arbitrage-free Pricing and Optimal InvestmentDavid German, Claremont McKenna College
Feb/10/2010On the Rate of Best ApproximationProfessor Timur Oikhberg, University of California Irvine
Feb/17/2010Dating the Demise of the DinosaursSteve C. Wang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College
Feb/24/2010Topological Symmetries of Molecules Erica Flapan, Pomona College
Mar/03/2010Robot Motion PlanningSatyan Devadoss, Williams College (on sabbatical at UC Berkeley)
Mar/10/2010Regularity, singularity and well-posedness of some mathematical models in physicsSaleh Tanveer, Ohio State University
Mar/17/2010Spring BreakNo Speakers
Mar/24/2010Elementary modular representation theoryEric M. Friedlander, USC
Apr/14/2010Invariants of knots from quandle cohomologyMohamed Elhamdadi (University of South Florida)
Apr/28/2010Analysis on the WormSteve Krantz, Washington University in St. Louis
Aug/28/2010On the Rate of Best ApproximationTimur Oikhberg, UCI

Fall 2009 Math Colloquia

Date:sort iconTitle:Speakers:
Dec/09/2009Maximal functions, the modified Bellman technique, and Muckenhoupt weightsWinston Ou, Scripps College
Dec/02/2009Generating Functions, Algorithms, and the Two Stamp ProblemKevin Woods, Oberlin College
Nov/25/2009No Colloquium TonightNo Colloquium
Nov/18/2009Better numerical integration through randomnessMark Huber, Claremont McKenna College
Nov/11/2009Extremal Graph Theory and its ApplicationsProfessor Benjamin Sudakov, UCLA
Nov/04/2009Reflexive Polygons, Complex Tori, and Elliptic CurvesCharles Doran University of Alberta and University of Washington
Oct/28/2009An Introduction to Surface Tension (Or Why Raindrops are Spherical)Andy Bernoff, Chair Harvey Mudd College
Oct/21/2009Who's Mining the Text?Ashish Bhan, CGU Math and Keck Graduate Institute
Oct/14/2009An Introduction to Geometric Data Analysis and its Possible ApplicationsJen-Mei Chang, Professor, Cal State Long Beach
Oct/07/2009Between Compactness and CompletenessGerald Beer, California State University, Los Angeles
Sep/30/2009The Game of Life (and Sudden Death): Predicting Cardiac Instabilties at Multiple Scales with Nonlinear Stochastic ModelsRobert Rovetti Loyola Marymount University
Sep/23/2009Alvin White and Humanistic MathematicsReuben Hersh University of New Mexico
Sep/16/2009Poster Session Claremont Colleges' Math Students - Summer 2009REBMI and CCMS sponsors
Sep/09/2009The Combinatorial Revolution in Knot TheorySam Nelson Claremont McKenna College

Spring 2008 Math Colloquia

Date:sort iconTitle:Speakers:
Jan/30/2008Phase Models with Time DelaySue Ann Campbell (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Feb/06/2008OSCILLATIONS AND DELAYS IN DRUGJacques Belair
Feb/13/2008TBACarlos Castillo-Chavez
Feb/20/2008TBASusan Martonosi
Feb/27/2008TBAHarish Bhat
Mar/05/2008#CANCELLED# The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot SetRobert Devaney (Boston University)
Mar/12/2008TBARoss William
Mar/26/2008The Mathematics of the Bluegrass BanjoJoti Rockwell (Pomona College, Music Department)
Apr/02/2008Peaks, Passes and Pits: From Topography to Topology via Quantum MechanicsJohn Roe (Penn State University, University Park in PA)
Apr/09/2008Combinatorial Reciprocity TheoremsMathias Beck (San Francisco State University)
Apr/16/2008Mathematical insights into phage therapy: Using phages to combat bacterial infections.Hal Smith (Arizona State University)
Apr/23/2008TBAYang Kuang
Apr/30/2008TBAMichael Shearer
May/07/2008TBAMario Martelli

Fall 2007 Math Colloquia

Date:sort iconTitle:Speakers:
Sep/12/2007Critical points and solvability of boundary value problems Dr. Alfonso Castro (Chair, Harvey Mudd College Math Department)
Sep/17/2007The backward shift on Dirichlet-type spacesStephan Garcia (Pomona College)
Sep/19/2007Why Did Lagrange Prove the Parallel Postulate?Dr. Judith Grabiner (Pitzer College)
Sep/26/2007Optimization of a delay-differential model of the immune response to cancer vaccinesDr. Ami Radunskaya ( Pomona College )
Oct/03/2007The Impact of Ballistics on MathematicsDr. Shawn McMurran (California State University, San Bernardino)
Oct/10/2007How mathematics departments can improve prospective teachers' mathematical content knowledge for teachingDr. Stacy Brown (Pitzer and Claremont McKenna Colleges)
Oct/17/2007Recent Insights into A^{\infty} and the Jones Factorization TheoremDr. Winston Ou (Scripps College)
Oct/31/2007Scary boundaries and harmonic measuresDr. Michael O'Neill (Claremont McKenna College)
Nov/07/2007Sphere Packing, Lattices, and Epstein zeta functionLenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College
Nov/14/2007Compressive SamplingProf. Emmanuel Candes, California Institute of Technology
Nov/19/2007Banach Algebras of continuous functions and measures, and their second duals H.G. Dales (Leeds College, UK)
Nov/28/2007Beaucoup de Sudoku Michael Krebs (California State University, Los Angeles)