It is our pleasure to invite you to a seminar on new methods in geodetic imaging and some of their impacts on measuring the size and shape of the Earth. Next Wednesday, come listen in as Dr. Matt Pritchard, Associate Professor at Cornell University, will be discussing the limitations of GPS technology and the benefits Continue Reading »
Chapman University will be screening The Island President documentary addressing climate change and rising sea levels. The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, and his efforts to confront climate change and rising sea levels. A rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1,200 islands of the Continue Reading »
Chapman Senior, Nathan Lawless, achieves high score at the annual Putnam Mathematics Competition. The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is an annual contest that tests some of the brightest mathematics students from colleges across the nation. The competition takes place each year on the first Saturday in December, where over 2000 college students spend 6 Continue Reading »
The School of Computational Sciences is pleased to invite you to a seminar on “Almost Commuting Matrices”. In this seminar, Mustafa Said (University of California, Irvine) will investigate a variant of an old problem in linear algebra and operator theory that was popularized by Paul Halmos “Must almost commuting matrices be nearly commuting?” He will Continue Reading »
Dr. Colin Cunliff of the Quantum Gravity Group at University of California, Davis to speak on campus about Massive Gravity. Recent years have seen a surge of interest in theories of massive gravity. These models extend Einstein’s theory of General Relativity by giving mass to the graviton, the particle which carries the gravitational force, and Continue Reading »
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