Math Dept 2025-26 Newsletter 4
Monday, 20 October 2025
Past newsletters can now be reached via the department website.
[Click on “About” and then “News and Events”].
Newsletter is sent out when there is something new.
Please send entries by the end of the workweek–Ed.
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
Data Science Seminar
Faculty and Graduate Students are invited to present their research at the Data Science Seminar. This includes research in other areas that involves data science.
Contact coordinator for more information.
Co-ordinator: Edmund Ameyaw
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TUESDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
Tuesdays, 11 am, on zoom.
Neil Hindman has been speaking.
Title: Some ideals of \beta(S).
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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WEDNESDAYS
Math team/Math Club meetings
TBA
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Math Biology Seminar
Wednesdays
Coordinators: Katie Gurski, Yeona Kang, Joon Ha, Sayomi Kamimoto, Chris Kim
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Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar
Combinatorics & Algebra Seminar which had been running for a number of years at George Washington University will now be a joint venture between the GW and Howard math departments. The organizers of the seminar are Joel Lewis & Robert Won (GW) and Sam Hopkins & Minh-Tam Trinh (Howard). The talks will take place 4-5pm on Wednesdays, at both GW & Howard depending on the speaker.
On 10/15, Sam Hopkins talked about Order polynomial product fomulas and poset dynamics.
THURSDAYS
Number Theory Seminar
Thursday 2:15pm on zoom.
On 10/9 Sankar Sitaraman talked about the class number formula.
The learning seminar will continue this week.
This year, we’re planning a mix of research talks and group readings/presentations. The learning seminars will be on topics in algebraic number theory, including class numbers, Dirichlet’s unit theorem, local fields, and cyclotomic fields.
Contact coordinators for zoom link.
Coordinators: Angelica Babei, Daniel Mamo and Sankar Sitaraman
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FRIDAYS
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Graduate Students Seminar
TBA
Contact person: Aaliyah Bratcher
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
Fridays, 4.10 to 5pm. Room 213 and zoom.
Friday, Oct 24
The next scheduled colloquium talk is on Nov 7, by Joseph Hogan of Brown University. Title TBA.
On Oct 17 by Lizhen Lin of the University of Maryland spoke about using statistics to understand the working of generative AI.
On Oct 10 Bourama Toni talked about Poincare Harmonic Oscillator dynamical systems in Euclidean and p-adic spaces (joint work with Daniel Mamo).
The colloquium schedule and videos are available at this website: https://deleo.website/HU/colloquium.html
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. (Thanks to Daniel Mamo) Arizona Winter School in Number Theory, March 7-11, 2026.
This year the talk will be on Computational Aspects of Arithmetic Geometry and Cryptography.
2. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport)
b) International Enumerative Combinatorics Conference, Aug 17-19, 2026
University of Haifa, Israel is organizing this conference (ICECA 26) virtually.
In previous newsletters:
Potomac Region PDE Seminar
Training Keys Seminar on STEM careers
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Mohammad Mahmood and his team are inviting applications from Chemistry/Chemical Engineering/Physics/or double Mathematics and Chemistry/Chemical Engineering majors at the senior Undergraduate (3) and Graduate (3) levels to work either on theory or experimental aspects of two NSF funded projects: (1) Investigation of Chemical Transformations in Host-Guest Systems at Extreme Conditions, and (2) Exploring Frontiers in Novel Material Synthesis at High Pressures: Synthesis and Recovery of Superhard and High Energy Density Polynitrides.
The position is part time during Fall 2025 through Spring 2026 and full time during Summer 2026 under the direction of Prof. M. Mahmood and his team. Interested students should send a 1-2 page resume to mmahmood AT howard.edu.
2. Math Department participation in NEON
Lifoma Salaam (College Algebra) and Meenakshi Nerolu (Data Analytics) have been coordinating programs for students from low income communities as part of the National Education Opportunity Network (NEON).
Howard University has reached 7,473 scholars from low-income communities across the country. The scholars hail from 235 high schools in 85 cities, including Washington, DC; Miami, FL; New Orleans, LA; and New York City. 149 Howard students have participated as Teaching Fellows.
In previous newsletters
MAA mathfest videos
NAM Undergraduate MATHFest
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. Job Opportunities
(Thanks to Sam Hopkins)
Tenure-track assistant professor position at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. The job ad states that the preferred areas of research are "extremal, probabilistic, or algebraic graph theory".
(Thanks to Dennis Davenport)
The Mathematics and Statistics Department of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA is searching for an assistant professor in math (applied or pure) starting Fall 2026. They are looking for candidates who are excited to join our department and to add to our dynamic program in research, teaching, and student mentoring. Job posting on Math Jobs
In previous newsletters
DOE SCGSR Application Assistance Workshops
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) ChatGPT struggles with Plato's classic problem