Mathematics

Presentation by Pamela Pyzza, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Kenyon College. Olfaction, or the sense of smell, is arguably the most primitive sense, and thus the mechanisms by which odors are detected and identified are shared across many animals, from insects to mammals. We formulate a mathematical model to describe these mechanisms by considering the structure and behavior of individual neurons, then we analyze the activity generated by a network of these neurons.

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Middlebury College announces the 2020 Clifford Symposium. Visit the Clifford Symposium website for details.

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Middlebury College announces the 2020 Clifford Symposium. Visit the Clifford Symposium website for details. go/Clifford

Mathematicians model the sound an object makes by its spectrum, a collection of numbers. “Hearing shapes” means reconstructing geometric properties from the spectrum. Famously posed as “Can you hear the shape of a drum?” spectral geometry asks which properties of shape can be “heard,” i.e. determined by its spectrum.

Weekly lecture on a topic in Mathematics. Content and speaker announced weekly. Contact Jennifer Nuceder (jmnucede@middlebury.edu) to join the email list.

More than a century before the appearance of any general purpose electronic digital computer, a British aristocrat penned a detailed algorithm for computing a mathematically important sequence on such a machine. Now considered by many as the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace was best known in her lifetime as the only legitimate child of the great Romantic poet, George Gordon Lord Byron. This talk will be an introduction to the life and work of Ada Byron Lovelace.

Weekly lecture on a topic in Mathematics. Content and speaker announced weekly. Contact Jennifer Nuceder (jmnucede@middlebury.edu) to join the email list.

Weekly lecture on a topic in Mathematics. Content and speaker announced weekly. Contact Jennifer Nuceder (jmnucede@middlebury.edu) to join the email list.