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'''Your Mom''' is a conceit with currency among some circles at Williams. It is probably a derivative of the "Yo Momma"/"Your Mom" joke that were popular in grade school. It is invariably used with irony. "Your mom" can be used as an unthinking answer to a question or a quick and easy riposte. E.g.,
"I'm going to the baseball game, wanna come?"
"Your mom wants to come."
Your mom reached her peak popularity in 2002-2003, when more than a handful of seniors gave Math colloquia with "Your Mom" in the title. The complete list is:
*“Blowing Up Cubes: Making Your Mom Proud†(Satyan Devadoss, professor)
*“An Examination of Outcome Sensitivity to Deception in a Case-Control Study of Second-Hand Smoking or What to Do If Your Mom Lies about Smoking†(Michael Baoicchi ’03)
*“The 15 Puzzle: How to Stump Your Mom†(Tracy Borawski ’03)
*“Backwards Induction Is Not Robust or Why You Can’t Always Trust Your Mom in a Truel†(Adam Cole '03)
*“Analyzing Dichotomous Dependent Variables Using Logistic Regression, or How to Predict Absolutely Anything about Your Mom†(Jennifer Doleac ’03)
*“Throwing Darts with Your Mom, or, Is the Continuum Hypothesis False?†(Williams Edgar '03)
*“AES: The Best Way to Hide your Internet Movie Collection from Your Mom†(Robert Gonzalez ’03)
*“The Game of “Guess It†or How to Bluff Your Mom Out of 30 Grand†(Thomas Hodgson ’03)
*“HOMFLY and Your Mom: Polynomials and Braids†(Brian Katz '03)
*“The Banach-Tarski Paradox, or How to Turn Your Mom into a Turkey†(Daniel Klasik ’03)
*“On Voting Coalitions and Power Indices. Should Your Mom Be a Politician?†(Edvard Major ’03)
*“The Continuous Wavelet Transform: Wavelets and Your Mom, or, rather, Their Mom†(Mark Rothlisberger ’03)
*“Can You Prove the Existence of Your Mom without Offering a Construction? Algebraic Curves, Invariants, and Hilbert’s Finite Basis†(Eric Schoenfeld ’03)
Sources: http://www.williams.edu/resources/sciencecenter/center/RS03html/RepSci2003fnl-MATHEMAT.html