Claremont Colleges Mathematics Colloquia
The Claremont Colleges present Mathematics Colloquia on every Wednesday, 4:15 - 5:15 pm. Refreshments are served before the talks at 3:45 pm.
For more information or to suggest speakers, please contact the organizers, Lenny Fukshansky (email: lenny at cmc dot edu) and Stephan Garcia (email: Stephan dot Garcia at pomona dot edu). Additional information is also available on the colloquium webpage:
www.claremontmckenna.edu/math/lenny/colloquium/index.html
Here is the page with directions to the venue where the colloquia are held.
Spring 2012 Math Colloquia
Fall 2011 Math Colloquia
Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Aug/31/2011 | Post-colloquium, non-colloquium party!!! | Host: Ami Radunskaya (Pomona College) |
| Sep/07/2011 | Quartic curves and their bitangents | Bernd Sturmfels (University of California at Berkeley) |
| Sep/14/2011 | Student Poster Session | Claremont students |
| Sep/21/2011 | The secret lives of polynomial identities | Bruce Reznick (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) |
| Sep/28/2011 | Quantization and Superization | Gizem Karaali (Pomona College) |
| Oct/05/2011 | Extremizers for the Radon transform: a symmetric story | Michael Christ (University of California at Berkeley) |
| Oct/12/2011 | An invitation to Floer homology | Ko Honda (University of Southern California) |
| Oct/19/2011 | Finite quantum chaos | Audrey Terras (University of California at San Diego) |
| Oct/26/2011 | How not to write a mathematics textbook | Sheldon Axler (San Francisco State University) |
| Nov/02/2011 | Universal laws and architectures | John Doyle (California Institute of Technology) |
| Nov/09/2011 | Stochasticity in Circadian Clocks | Linda Petzold (University of California at Santa Barbara) |
| Nov/16/2011 | Infinite groups | Efim Zelmanov (University of California at San Diego) |
| Nov/30/2011 | Natural boundaries and spectral theory | Barry Simon (California Institute of Technology) |
| Dec/07/2011 | Quasiconformal geometry of fractals | Mario Bonk (University of California at Los Angeles) |
Spring 2011 Math Colloquia
Fall 2010 Math Colloquia
| Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Sep/01/2010 | Non-Colloquium Colloquium Party | All Claremont Mathematics Faculty |
| Sep/08/2010 | An introduction to problems in bicomplex analysis | Dana Clahane Fullerton College |
| Sep/15/2010 | REBMI RESEARCH EXPERIENCES at the BIOLOGY-MATHEMATICS INTERFACE and CCMS CLAREMONT CENTER for MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES | Student Poster Session Research in the Mathematical Sciences Summer 2010 - Hosted by John Milton Joint Sciences |
| Sep/22/2010 | Everything is a number, but what is a number? Philolaus and Pythagoreans | Richard McKirahan Pomona College |
| Sep/29/2010 | Deterministic and Stochastic Population Models | Randall Swift California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
| Oct/06/2010 | Nonconvex optimization for image reconstruction | Rick Chartrand Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Oct/13/2010 | Frobenius Integration Theorem for Mirror Design | Emek Kose Can Loyola Marymount University |
| Oct/20/2010 | Elliptic problems with nonlinear boundary conditions | Rosa Pardo Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain |
| Oct/27/2010 | Empirical Processes, VC classes and drums | Gabriel Chandler, Pomona College |
| Nov/03/2010 | Hidden Symmetries in Everyday Operators | Stephan Garcia Pomona College |
| Nov/10/2010 | Turning the Tide: Findings and Implications of the MAAP Study | Stacy Brown Pitzer College |
| Dec/01/2010 | Randomly choosing 3-dimensional manifolds | Helen Wong (Carleton College) |
Spring 2010 Math Colloquia
| Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Jan/27/2010 | Ennio De Giorgi (1928-1996): A profile of an outstanding mathematician of the 20th century | Prof. Alfonso Vignoli, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma Due, Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy |
| Feb/03/2010 | Arbitrage-free Pricing and Optimal Investment | David German, Claremont McKenna College |
| Feb/10/2010 | On the Rate of Best Approximation | Professor Timur Oikhberg, University of California Irvine |
| Feb/17/2010 | Dating the Demise of the Dinosaurs | Steve C. Wang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College |
| Feb/24/2010 | Topological Symmetries of Molecules | Erica Flapan, Pomona College |
| Mar/03/2010 | Robot Motion Planning | Satyan Devadoss, Williams College (on sabbatical at UC Berkeley) |
| Mar/10/2010 | Regularity, singularity and well-posedness of some mathematical models in physics | Saleh Tanveer, Ohio State University |
| Mar/17/2010 | Spring Break | No Speakers |
| Mar/24/2010 | Elementary modular representation theory | Eric M. Friedlander, USC |
| Mar/31/2010 | Frechet Algebras of Power Series | H.G. Dales University of Leeds, UK |
| Apr/07/2010 | Mirror Symmetry Through Reflexive Polytopes | Ursula Whitcher Harvey Mudd College |
| Apr/14/2010 | Invariants of knots from quandle cohomology | Mohamed Elhamdadi (University of South Florida) |
| Apr/21/2010 | Numerical methods for differential equations as a mathematical science | John Butcher (University of Auckland, New Zealand) |
| Apr/28/2010 | Combinatorial Geodesics in Triangle-Square Complexes | Rena Levitt, Pomona College |
Fall 2009 Math Colloquia
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) |