I am looking for an environment where there are opportunities to attend seminars/research in my topic of interest: computer theory/discrete math.
I know HMC offers a Joint Major in Computer Science and Mathematics so there must be at least a small group of people in the consortium pursuing this area of study, but I am unsure if Pomona offers this joint major as well.
Oh, I guess I answered my own question yet again!
"Students wishing to major in CS, CSM (Joint Major in Computer Science and Mathematics), or MCB (Mathematical and Computational Biology) through Harvey Mudd must declare their major with their home registrar and contact the HMC CS Department Chair to sign a departmental major form and be assigned a HMC CS advisor.
For the sake of registration priority in HMC CS courses, a “major” is any student majoring in CS through Harvey Mudd or Pomona or CSM or MCB through Harvey Mudd, regardless of the student’s home campus. Majors are identified by their designation on the Claremont Portal system. In general, with exceptions noted below (the HMC introductory sequence and CS 121), our department provides equal access and priority to CS courses for all officially declared CS, CSM, and MCB majors."
But if anyone has had experience in the CSM major, please share your thoughts!
Look at the research interests of profs at Mudd. Likely you could do research in that area, and probably attend national conferences funded by Mudd. My Mudder has been to at least one conference each year she has been at Mudd (and may end up going to 3 this year, her senior year).
@intparent Do you think these opportunities would still be available to a Pomona student who is majoring through Mudd?
I don’t know.
There are a lot of people at Pomona who study CS and Math; it’s one of the, if not the most popular double major. Both majors are also the #1/#3 most popular declared major at the college, so I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t interest among people at Pomona in the topic.
Mudd’s CS Seminars are open to students from the whole consortium, if you’re seeking intellectual content. Their lower level classes are the ones which are challenging to get into, but once you finish Pomona’s intro sequence, you can start enrolling into the higher level Mudd courses.
I know friends who’ve done research at Mudd during the school year with the upper-level CS 185/186 courses. Pomona professors also offer research during the school year and in the summer, but most people who study CS (at either place) tend to use their summers or academic year post-class activities to gain work experience in the CS industry. Pomona students have access to a summer experience funding which covers money for unpaid internships, and students have done this to work at prestigious CS labs at places like MIT and Stanford. There’s also the internship school-year program which allows you to have a internship paid for in LA, so if you can identify places that’ll let you explore your interest, that’s an option.
Caltech and Pomona have a good amount of collaboration as well, so if there’s anything there which interests you, it may be possible to arrange an exchange or visit for attending their seminars and lectures.
By the way, if you were still interested in majoring at Mudd while at Pomona, I’m quite certain it isn’t possible. At an info session with the Dean of Admissions at Pomona, he clarified that all the students from colleges at the 5Cs can major anywhere else except for Pomona. Pomona students must major at Pomona. If you want to have a strong CS/Math focus maybe look at the Caltech/Pomona joint programs, or possibly apply to Mudd? Good luck 
Thank you! @nostalgicwisdom That was a very informative post.
And @goingsomewhereeh I am fine with majoring in the math/cs joint major through Pomona (a lot of my classes will probably still be through Mudd anyway), but I will definitely look into possible Caltech/Pomona programs.
“A program for sophomores and juniors for an entire academic year is possible at the California Institute of Technology.” This seems to be more common in physics and engineering programs.
http://catalog.pomona.edu/content.php?catoid=3&navoid=69