[[Category:Williamspeak]]'''Your Mom''' is a conceit with currency among some circles at Williams. It is probably a derivative of the "Yo Momma"/"Your Mom" joke jokes 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 *"Blowing Up Cubes: Making Your Mom Proud†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 *"An Examination of Outcome Sensitivity to Stump Deception in a Case-Control Study of Second-Hand Smoking or What to Do If Your Mom†Mom Lies about Smoking" (Tracy Borawski ’03Michael Baoicchi '03)
“Backwards Induction Is Not Robust or Why You Can’t Always Trust *"The 15 Puzzle: How to Stump Your Mom in a Truel†" (Adam Cole Tracy Borawski '03)
“Analyzing Dichotomous Dependent Variables Using Logistic Regression, *"Backwards Induction Is Not Robust or How to Predict Absolutely Anything about Why You Can't Always Trust Your Mom†Mom in a Truel" (Jennifer Doleac ’03Adam Cole '03)
“Throwing Darts with *"Analyzing Dichotomous Dependent Variables Using Logistic Regression, or How to Predict Absolutely Anything about Your Mom, or, Is the Continuum Hypothesis False?†" (Williams Edgar Jennifer Doleac '03)
“AES: The Best Way to Hide your Internet Movie Collection from *"Throwing Darts with Your Mom†Mom, or, Is the Continuum Hypothesis False?" (Robert Gonzalez ’03Williams Edgar '03)
“The Game of “Guess It†or How *"AES: The Best Way to Bluff Hide your Internet Movie Collection from Your Mom Out of 30 Grand†" (Thomas Hodgson ’03Robert Gonzalez '03)
“HOMFLY and *"The Game of 'Guess It' or How to Bluff Your Mom: Polynomials and Braids†Out of 30 Grand" (Brian Katz Thomas Hodgson '03)
“The Banach-Tarski Paradox, or How to Turn *"HOMFLY and Your Mom into a Turkey†: Polynomials and Braids" (Daniel Klasik ’03Brian Katz '03)
“On Voting Coalitions and Power Indices. Should *"The Banach-Tarski Paradox, or How to Turn Your Mom Be into a Politician?†Turkey" (Edvard Major ’03Daniel Klasik "03)
“The Continuous Wavelet Transform: Wavelets *"On Voting Coalitions and Power Indices. Should Your Mom, or, rather, Their Mom†Be a Politician?" (Mark Rothlisberger ’03Edvard Major '03)
“Can You Prove the Existence of *"The Continuous Wavelet Transform: Wavelets and Your Mom without Offering a Construction? Algebraic Curves, Invariantsor, rather, and Hilbert’s Finite Basis†Their Mom" (Eric Schoenfeld ’03Mark 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.htmlSource of abstracts]