Claremont Colleges Colloquium
2011-2012

Aims and Scope

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Spring 2012 Schedule

Freeburg Forum (Kravis Center, LC 62) at CMC: Directions and Map

Spring 2012 Colloquium Flyer

• January 18
  Dan Goldston (San Jose State University)
  Title: Gaps between primes and the Jumping Champion Problem (Abstract)

• January 25
  Course Rotation Coordination Meeting
  

• February 1
  Benny Sudakov (University of California at Los Angeles)
  Title: Induced matchings, arithmetic progressions and communication (Abstract)

• February 8
  Solomon Golomb (University of Southern California)
  Title: Binary linear feedback shift register sequences (Abstract)

• February 15
  Jon McCammond (University of California at Santa Barbara)
  Title: Reflections and braids (Abstract)
  

• February 22
  Ken Ono (Emory Universtiy)
  Title: The legacy of Ramanujan's mock theta functions: harmonic Maass forms in number theory (Abstract)
  Professor Ono will also speak in the CMC Athenaeum on Tuesday, February 21
  

• February 29
  Chiu-Yen Kao (Claremont McKenna College)
  Title: An efficient rearrangement algorithm for shape optimization problem involving principal eigenvalue in population dynamics (Abstract)

• March 7
  Jeff Vaaler (University of Texas at Austin)
  Title: The ABC Conjecture (Abstract)
  Professor Vaaler will also speak in the ANTC seminar on Tuesday, March 6
  

• March 14
  SPRING BREAK!!!

• March 21
  Christian Ratsch (IPAM UCLA)
  Title: An island dynamics model to describe strain induced ordering during heteroepitaxial growth (Abstract)

• March 28
  Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M University)
  Title: On Gap Conjecture for group growth and related topics (Abstract)
  Professor Grigorchuk will also speak in the ANTC seminar on Tuesday, March 27

• April 4
  Mihai Putinar (University of California at Santa Barbara)
  Title: Hermitian positivity of real polynomials (Abstract)

• April 11
  Deanna Needell (Claremont McKenna College)
  Title: Less is More: Robust image recovery via total variation minimization (Abstract)

• April 18
  Wolfgang Schmidt (University of Colorado at Boulder)
  Title: Geometric intuition in number theory (Abstract) -- video recording of Professor Schmidt's lecture
  Professor Schmidt will also speak in the ANTC seminar on Tuesday, April 17
  

• April 25
  Estelle Basor (American Institute of Mathematics)
  Title: Eigenvalues of finite Toeplitz matrices (Abstract)

• May 2
  J. William Helton (University of California at San Diego)
  Title: Linear matrix inequalities and their limitations (Abstract)

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Fall 2011 Schedule

Millikan Auditorium at Pomona: Directions and Map

Fall 2011 Colloquium Flyer