PUMA: Practicum for Undergraduate MAthematicians – Algebraic and Computational Topology - IPAM

PUMA: Practicum for Undergraduate MAthematicians – Algebraic and Computational Topology

April 12 - 13, 2025

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Morning Session

08:00-08:50
Check-in/Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
08:50-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-10:00
Helen Wong (Claremont McKenna College)
Expository Talk: Knotting in proteins
10:00-11:00
Bahar Acu (Pitzer College)
Tutorial Lecture #1: Surfaces and their classification
11:00-12:00
Problem Session #1

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Lunch (hosted by IPAM)
13:00-14:00
Bahar Acu (Pitzer College)
Tutorial Lecture #2: Simplicial homology and Delta Complexes
14:00-15:00
Problem Session #2
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Claudio Gómez-Gonzáles (Carleton College)
Expository Talk: Plants of slow growth: reducing coefficients and sustaining mathematics
16:30-17:30
Professional development session #1

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-in/Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:00
Vin de Silva (Pomona College)
Expository Talk: How algebraic topology can help teams of robots.
10:00-11:00
Jose Perea (Northeastern University)
Tutorial Lecture #3: The persistent homology of data
11:00-12:00
Problem Session #3

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Lunch (hosted by IPAM)
13:00-14:00
Sarah Tymochko (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Expository Talk: Applications of Topological Data Analysis to Resource Coverage
14:00-15:00
Professional development session #2
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