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
8:00 - 8:50	Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00	Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 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
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
Afternoon Session
1:00 - 2:00	Bahar Acu (Pitzer College) "Tutorial Lecture #2: Simplicial homology and Delta Complexes"
2:00 - 3:00	Problem Session #2
3:00 - 3:30	Break
3:30 - 4:30	Claudio Gómez-Gonzáles (Carleton College) "Expository Talk: Plants of slow growth: reducing coefficients and sustaining mathematics"
4:30 - 5:30	Professional development session #1
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00	Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 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
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
Afternoon Session
1:00 - 2:00	Sarah Tymochko (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) "Expository Talk: Applications of Topological Data Analysis to Resource Coverage"
2:00 - 3:00	Professional development session #2