Jedrzej Garnek will speak in Fragment: The main part of the talk will be from 3-3:50, then we will have a 10 minute break, then resume from 4-4:20 with more […]

An introduction to topological combinatorics The chromatic number of a graph is the number of vertex colors needed so that adjacent vertices have different colors. In 1955, Kneser made a […]

Title:Defining Persistence Diagrams for Cohomology of a Cofiltration Indexed Over a Finite Lattice Advisor: Dr. Amit Patel Committee: Dr. Mark Shoemaker, Dr. Dustin Tucker Persistent homology and cohomology are important […]

The Buzz about BHZ: The Life and Times of Brauer's Height Zero Conjecture Mandi Schaeffer Fry Metropolitan State University of Denver In 1955, Richard Brauer, often regarded as the founder […]

Advisor: Dr. Maria Gillespie Committee: Dr. Alexander Hulpke, Dr. Mark Shoemaker, Dr. Sudipto Ghosh Title: Generalized RSK for enumerating projective maps from $n$-pointed curves A recent result of Farkas and […]

In the previous talks of this series we met the Kneser graph and the character theory of finite groups. In this talk we will revisit these topics, this time through […]

We are excited to announce that the University of Colorado, Boulder and Colorado State University, Fort Collins will be hosting Front Range Number Theory Day on October 8th, 2022, at […]

Speaker: Facundo Mémoli from Ohio State University Title: Gromov-like distances between spheres Abstract: Distances between metric spaces such as the Gromov-Hausdorff distance and its Optimal Transport variants are nowadays often invoked in […]

Title: Singular Flavors of Compressive Sensing Abstract: About fifteen years ago, a couple of groundbreaking papers revealed the possibility of faithfully recovering high-dimensional signals from far fewer measurements than expected. […]

This Thursday's Fragment seminar speaker will be our own Clayton Shonkwiler, speaking on Frames, Geometric Invariant Theory, and Optimization.

Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University Paper Folding: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation The unfolding of a ladybird's wings, the trapping mechanism used by a flytrap, the design of self-deployable space […]

Advisor:  Dr. Jennifer Committee:  Dr. Margaret Cheney, Dr. Patrick Shipman, Dr. Marlis Rezende Title: An Inverse Problem and Multi-Compartment Lung Model for the Estimation of Lung Airway Resistance throughout the […]