Math Dept 2012-2013 Newsletter 16
Monday, 28 January 2013
Please send entries by the end of the week --Ed
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Happy New Year everyone. Welcome back.
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Meetings and Seminars
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Every Monday
Geometry and Topology Seminar
ASB-B 213 3.10 to 4pm
Dr. Adeniran Adeboye will give talks on:
3-SYMMETRIC SPACES.
Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews
Coordinator
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Number Theory Seminar
Schedule TBA
Sankar Sitaraman will be talking about mean values of a
multiplicative function and inertial degrees of a prime.
Francois Ramaroson & Sankar Sitaraman
Coordinators
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Every Tuesday
The Seminar on Topological Semigroups and Ramsey Theory
Neil Hindman will be talking about partition regularity of infinite
matrices.
Tuesdays at 11:10 a.m in room 233 of Annex III
Organizer: Neil Hindman
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Every Wednesday
"P-adic Functional Analysis" SEMINAR
Schedule TBA
REQUIRED BACKGROUND: Basic functional analysis & operator theory
DESCRIPTION: In this Seminar introductory notions on nonarchimedean
Banach and Hilbert spaces will be discussed. Next, discussions will be on the
spectral theory of linear operators upon nonarchimedean Banach spaces.
ORGANIZER: Toka Diagana
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"Evolution Equations and Their Applications" SEMINAR
Schedule TBA
REQUIRED BACKGROUND: Basic functional analysis
DESCRIPTION: Our discussions will mainly be upon the stability,
existence, and uniqueness of solutions to evolution equations on Banach spaces
and their applications to partial differential equations.
ORGANIZER: Toka Diagana
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EVERY FRIDAY
Combinatorics Seminar
Organizational meeting next Monday, January 28, at 1:10pm, and maybe
then again at 4:10pm of those who can't attend at 1.
Organizer: Lou Shapiro
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Applied Math Seminar
Every Monday 12:10 in ASB-B 201
We invite all faculty and graduate students to join.
We'll be discussing papers, any applied math topics of interest, and
working on new results.
Organizers: Katie Gurski and Talitha Washington
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Mathematics Departmental Colloquium
Feb 1, 2013
TBA
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Fluid dynamics seminar
For those who are new, this is a social gathering in the department
usually after the Friday colloquium (or 4.30 pm if no colloquium).
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Announcements
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Via Aziz Yakubu
Teaching Opportunity at John Hopkins Summer Program
We are writing you to let you know about an excellent opportunity for
students or faculty in your department who may be interested in summer
employment as a mathematics teaching assistant or instructor with the Johns
Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) summer programs. CTY offers
challenging academic programs for highly talented elementary, middle, and high
school students from across the country and around the world. Information
regarding our summer programs can be found at www.cty.jhu.edu/jobs/summer.
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Cornell Math Department summer REU 2013 program (via Louise Raphael)
The weblink is on Cornell's math dept website:
www.math.cornel.edu/Undergraduate/REU/REU.htm
Bob Strichartz who works in harmonic analysis, pdes,
... is the director. Joining him is a
postdoc, Hirren at Yale working with Coifman on some exciting
things.
He worked with Bob when he was an undergrad at Cornell, and with
Kasso at UMD for his PhD. The other project director is Keith
Dennis,
who will do some nice elementary group theory.
Bob writes: "If you wish to recommend
students, please send them the announcement link, and also send me [str@math.cornell.edu]
their
email addresses and any information you have about them. I will send
them an email inviting them to apply."
Web sites created by students working with Bob may be found at
www.math.cornell.edu/~reu/
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From Department of Energy (Oak Ridge Labs)
Postdoctoral Research Awards
Research opportunities for recent Ph.D. graduates
The EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards support innovative research in
energy efficiency and renewable energy by offering recent Ph.D. recipients* the
opportunity to conduct applied research at universities, national laboratories,
and other research facilities.
*Applicants without a Ph.D. may be considered for the
Water Power topic area.
Research Topics:
Fuel Cells Technologies
Solar
Water Power
Application deadline is February 28, 2013
More information and application materials can be found at:
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/education/postdoctoral
Please share this information with others at your academic
institution/organization.
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From NOAA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is pleased
to announce the availability of scholarships (includes internships) to students
majoring in disciplines related to oceanic and atmospheric science, research,
or technology, and supportive of the purposes of NOAA's programs and mission,
e.g., biological, social and physical sciences; mathematics; engineering; and
computer and information sciences.
Please share with your students!
Undergraduate Scholarships (for students who are currently
sophomores):
á Educational
Partnership Program Undergraduate Scholarship: http://www.epp.noaa.gov
Application Deadline: February 15, 2013
á Ernest F. Hollings
Undergraduate Scholarship Program: http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/Hollings_info.html
Application Deadline: January 31, 2013
Eligibility requirements are:
á US Citizenship
á 3.0 GPA
á Studying a NOAA
science: atmospheric science, biology, cartography, chemistry, computer
science, engineering, environmental science, geodesy, geography, marine
science, mathematics, meteorology, oceanography, physical science,
photogrammetry, physics, etc.
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From Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville
Department of Biochemistry and
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Sensing and Signaling
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Application Deadline
February 28, 2013
Program Dates
May 29 – August 7, 2013
Email
Phone
(865) 974-5148
The BCMB Department at UT-Knoxville will once again offer a special
REU program for undergraduates interested in hands-on scientific research
experience. The broad focus is on "sensing and signaling". The team
of REU faculty represent multiple modern scientific disciplines including cell
biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and computational biology.