Friday, February 20, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Umbral Moonshine
Speaker: Miranda C.N. Cheng (Assistant Professor, Institute of Physics and Korteweg-de Vries Institute of Mathematics, University of Amsterdam)
Abstract: In this talk we will describe recent developments in umbral moonshine, including unexpected relationships between finite groups and mock modular forms.
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Friday, February 6, 2015 (12:30 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Typical marginals of convex bodies
Speaker: Mark Meckes (Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University MAMS Department)
Abstract: A recent theorem of Klartag asserts that if X is uniformly distributed in a high-dimensional isotropic convex body, then most linear functionals of X are approximately Gaussian in distribution. This phenomenon has connections...