Past Events

Join us on July 27, 2023 for an afternoon and evening of discussion and learning on Tackling Climate Change and the Just Transition to Renewable Energy. This free two-part event is part of a series of French-Ameri-Can Climate Panels (FACTS) on...

In an introduction to proofs course, students learn to write proofs informally in the language of set theory and classical logic. In this talk, I'll explore the alternate possibility of teaching students to write proofs informally in the language of...

Join us for this event, part of the Seminar Series: Mathematics of Ethical Decision-making Systems. Agenda 3:00pm Dr. Midori Ogasawara, the social consequences of surveillance and data collection. 3:30pm Break for refreshments 4:00pm Patricia Cochran...

Mathematics has developed an increasingly “higher dimensional” point of view of when different things deserve the same name, categorifying the traditional logical notion of equality to isomorphism (from Greek isos “equal” and morphe “form” or “shape”...

In this talk, I discuss a pure-exchange economy with no aggregate uncertainty, and I characterize in closed-form and in full generality Pareto-optimal risk-sharing allocations between two agents who maximize rank-dependent utilities (RDU). I then...

The “key risk measures” such as Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Conditional Tail Expectation (CTE) are important for capital allocation decisions as they inform actuaries and risk managers about the degree to which a line of business or a company is exposed...

Guidobaldo del Monte (1545-1647), a patron and friend of Galileo Galilei, believed he had witnessed the creation of something out of nothing when he established mathematically that zero equals one. He thereby thought that he had proved the existence...

The minimization of a relative entropy (with respect to the Wiener measure) is a very old problem which dates back to Schrödinger. C. Léonard has between this problem and the Monge-Kantorovich problem with quadratic cost (namely the standard Optimal...

Participants will be invited to engage in a series of mathematical tasks which highlight ways of getting learners to use and develop their undoubted powers (imagining & expressing; specialising & generalizing; conjecturing & convincing). Speaker...

Games are everywhere. We play games to entertain ourselves, motivate ourselves, and educate ourselves. This is particularly true of children, where games are educational tools that both encourage and evaluate mastery of many mental skills. What about...