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, Alfonso Castro (email: alfonso_castro at hmc dot edu) and Adolfo Rumbos (email: arumbos at pomona dot edu).

Spring 2013 Math Colloquia

Date:	Title:	Speakers:
Jan/30/2013	Can you “hear” the shape of a radial Schrodinger operator?	Ivan Ventura (The University of Arizona)
Feb/06/2013	Local Symmetry in Wallpaper Functions	Frank Farris, Santa Clara University
Feb/13/2013	Subsolutions: A Journey from Positone to infinite Semipositone Problems	Ratnasingham Shivaji, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Feb/20/2013	Stability of Solutions in a Population Model with Transgenic Mosquitoes	Hubertus Von Bremen, Cal Poly Pomona
Feb/27/2013	The Asymptotic Properties of random trees	Douglas P. Rizzolo, University of Washington
Mar/06/2013	An Introduction to Mathematical String Theory	Dagan Karp, Harvey Mudd College
Mar/13/2013	Do Drugs Reach their Target? A Regularized Stokeslets Model of Tumor Tissue Penetration	Kasia Rejniak, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Mathematical Oncology Department, Tampa, FL
Mar/20/2013	No Colloquium--Spring Break	None
Mar/27/2013	Towards the Next Generation of High-Frequency Trading Models	Henry Schellhorn, Claremont Graduate University
Apr/03/2013	Multisite Molecules and all-or-none Responses in Cellular Communication	German Enciso, University of California, Irvine
Apr/10/2013	Spaghetti Loops in a Chinese Restaurant	Nicholas Pippenger (Harvey Mudd College)
Apr/17/2013	Unifying the Equations of Life: Time Scale Calculus and Evolutionary Dynamics	Dashiell Fryer (Pomona College)
Apr/24/2013	Mobius Geometry of Ultrametric Spaces	Zair Ibragimov (California State University at Fullerton)
May/01/2013	The Wandering Philosopher Problem	Tyler Seacrest (University of Western Montana)

Fall 2012 Math Colloquia

Date:	Title:	Speakers:
Sep/12/2012	Active scalar equations and a geodynamo model	Susan Friedlander, University of Southern California
Sep/19/2012	Student Poster Session	Claremont Center for Mathematical Sciences
Sep/26/2012	Wave blocking in a model of an injured nerve fiber	Victor Padron, Normandale College
Oct/03/2012	User-Friendly Tail Bounds for Sums of Random Matrices	Joel Tropp, California Institute of Technology
Oct/10/2012	Diagrammatic Calculus	Radmilla Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania
Oct/17/2012	Seeking to Understand the Processes of Life Through Mathematics	Peter Bates, Michigan State University
Oct/24/2012	NO COLLOQUIUM--Fall Break	None
Oct/31/2012	On Convergence of Random Products of Mapping in Metric Spaces	Amine Khamsi, University of Texas, El Paso
Nov/07/2012	Breaking Bad: Fragmentation of Bacterial Flocs	Erin Byrne, Harvey Mudd College
Nov/14/2012	The IVP for the k-genralized Korteweg-de Vries Equation	Gustavo Ponce, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nov/21/2012	NO COLLOQUIUM--Thanksgiving Break	None
Nov/28/2012	Increased Regions of Stability for a Two-Delay Differential Equation	Joseph Mahaffy (San Diego State University)
Dec/05/2012	The Decimation Method for Laplacians on Self-Similar Fractals and Their Spectral Zeta Functions	Nishu Lal (Scripps College)

Spring 2012 Math Colloquia

Date:	Title:	Speakers:
Jan/18/2012	Gaps between primes and the Jumping Champion Problem	Dan Goldston (San Jose State University)
Jan/25/2012	Course Rotation Coordination Meeting	Claremont Faculty
Feb/01/2012	Induced matchings, arithmetic progressions and communication	Benny Sudakov (UCLA)
Feb/08/2012	Binary linear feedback shift register sequences	Solomon Golomb (USC)
Feb/15/2012	Reflections and braids	Jon McCammond (UC Santa Barbara)
Feb/22/2012	The legacy of Ramanujan's mock theta functions: Harmonic Maass forms in number theory	Ken Ono (Emory Universtiy)
Feb/29/2012	An efficient rearrangement algorithm for shape optimization problem involving principal eigenvalue in population dynamics	Chiu-Yen Kao (CMC)
Mar/07/2012	The ABC Conjecture	Jeffrey Vaaler (University of Texas at Austin)
Mar/21/2012	An island dynamics model to describe strain induced ordering during heteroepitaxial growth	Christian Ratsch (IPAM UCLA)
Mar/28/2012	On Gap Conjecture for group growth and related topics	Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M University)
Apr/04/2012	Hermitian positivity of real polynomials	Mihai Putinar (UC Santa Barbara)
Apr/11/2012	Less is More: Robust image recovery via total variation minimization	Deanna Needell (CMC)
Apr/18/2012	Geometric intuition in number theory	Wolfgang Schmidt (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Apr/25/2012	Eigenvalues of finite Toeplitz matrices	Estelle Basor (American Institute of Mathematics)
May/02/2012	Linear matrix inequalities and their limitations	J. William Helton (UC San Diego)

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

Date:	Title:	Speakers:
Jan/26/2011	Improved Approximation Algorithms for the Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree Problem	Aaron Archer (AT&T Shannon Research Laboratory)
Feb/02/2011	State sum models and homological invariants	Adam Lowrance (University of Iowa)
Feb/09/2011	Algebraic Topology chases Machine Learning around the Penrose Impossible Triangle	Vin de Silva (Pomona College)
Feb/16/2011	Black-Hole Binaries: Observing, Visualizing, and Understanding Strongly Curved, Dynamical Spacetime	David Nichols (CMC ’06/Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology/W.M. Keck Science Center, Claremont Colleges)
Feb/23/2011	Numerical Simulations of an Immune Response	Timothy Lucas (Pepperdine University)
Mar/02/2011	Low dimensional embedding with compressed, incomplete and inaccurate measurements	Blake Hunter (University of California, Davis)
Mar/09/2011	A Mathematical Model of Gang Rivalry Formation in L.A.	Alethea Barbaro (UCLA)
Mar/23/2011	Free Knots and Irreducibly Odd Graphs	Allison Henrich (Seattle University)
Mar/30/2011	In the shadow of Desargues	Annalisa Crannell (Franklin & Marshall College)
Apr/06/2011	Tilings, tiling spaces and hierarchy	Lorenzo Sadun (University of Texas at Austin)
Apr/13/2011	Flippin' and Floppin' through Dream Spaces	John Levitt (Occidental College)
Apr/20/2011	Reconstructing DNA Copy Number by Penalized Estimation and Imputation	Chiara Sabatti (UCLA)
Apr/27/2011	The Mathematics of Bargaining Theory in the Cloud	Eric Friedman (Cornell University)
Jul/07/2011	Pretend seminar	Jeho Park (HMC)

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

Date:	Title:	Speakers:
Sep/09/2009	The Combinatorial Revolution in Knot Theory	Sam Nelson Claremont McKenna College
Sep/16/2009	Poster Session Claremont Colleges' Math Students - Summer 2009	REBMI and CCMS sponsors
Sep/23/2009	Alvin White and Humanistic Mathematics	Reuben Hersh University of New Mexico
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
Oct/07/2009	Between Compactness and Completeness	Gerald Beer, California State University, Los Angeles
Oct/14/2009	An Introduction to Geometric Data Analysis and its Possible Applications	Jen-Mei Chang, Professor, Cal State Long Beach
Oct/21/2009	Who's Mining the Text?	Ashish Bhan, CGU Math and Keck Graduate Institute
Oct/28/2009	An Introduction to Surface Tension (Or Why Raindrops are Spherical)	Andy Bernoff, Chair Harvey Mudd College
Nov/04/2009	Reflexive Polygons, Complex Tori, and Elliptic Curves	Charles Doran University of Alberta and University of Washington
Nov/11/2009	Extremal Graph Theory and its Applications	Professor Benjamin Sudakov, UCLA
Nov/18/2009	Better numerical integration through randomness	Mark Huber, Claremont McKenna College
Nov/25/2009	No Colloquium Tonight	No Colloquium
Dec/02/2009	Generating Functions, Algorithms, and the Two Stamp Problem	Kevin Woods, Oberlin College
Dec/09/2009	Maximal functions, the modified Bellman technique, and Muckenhoupt weights	Winston Ou, Scripps 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)

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