Math Dept 2013-2014
Newsletter 10
Monday, 25 November 2013
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
Newsletter is sent out when there is something
new.
Please send entries by the end of the
week --Ed
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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Monday, November 25
Thesis defense by Bertrum
Foster
3:00 pm Room 101, Graduate School Building
Title: "Rational points and isogenies of the
Holm curves over a finite field"
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Every Monday
1. Combinatorics
Seminar
The combinatorics
seminar will meet on Mondays at 3pm in room 201 ASB-B.
Alex Burstein will talk about pattern
avoiding permutations.
Those interested but unable to attend at that
hour should contact Alex Burstein or Lou Shapiro.
Organizers: Alex Burstein and Lou Shapiro
2. Geometry and
Topology Seminar
ASB-B 213 3.00 to 4pm
Speaker: Professor Joseph Yeager
Topic: SYMPLECTIC
AND CONTACT GEOMETRY.
Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews
Coordinator
3.Math Team Meeting
Monday at 5:10 in room 213.
If you have strong students with an interest in
problem solving urge them to attend.
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Tuesday, Nov 26
Valerie Nelson Thesis defense
Title: "Existence Results for Some
Higher-Order Abstract Differential Equations with Applications to
PDEs"
Advisor: Toka Diagana
External Examiner: Bourama
Toni (Virgina State University)
Chairperson: N. Hindman
Other Committee Members: P. H. Bezandry and K. Gurski
Annex III (Graduate School) - Room
205, 10:00am
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Every Tuesday
The Seminar on Topological Semigroups
and Ramsey Theory
Tuesdays at 11:10 a.m
in room 231 of Annex III
Dev Phulara will be speaking in the Seminar on Topological Semigroups and Ramsey Theory.
His topic will be "A generalized Central
Sets Theorem".
Organizer: Neil Hindman
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Every Friday
Math Department Colloquium
Room 213, 4.10 to 5pm, ASB-B
Friday Nov. 29
No colloquium or fluid dynamics this week.
Fluid dynamics seminar
Follows Colloquium.,
Starts at 4.30 if no colloquium is scheduled
Abstract: (by Neil Hindman)
The "Fluid" refers to soda and
beer. The "Dynamics" refers to the topics of conversation,
which is as likely as anything to deal with RGIII and the Washington Football
Club. Pizza, including a vegetarian option, and wings are provided.
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TALKS AND EVENTS OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT
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Webinar on summer internship opportunities
2014 Summer Term Opportunities for Undergraduates
and Visiting Faculty – Office of Science Sponsored Programs at DOE
Laboratories
webinar will
be on this website on thursday: http://science.energy.gov/~/media/wdts/pdf/outreach/2013/2014_Summer_Term_Outreach_Webinar_November_2013.pdf
Thursday, November 21, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. EST
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (from
various sources)
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1. Summer UG intern Programs at ICERM,
Brown University (Thanks to Louise Raphael)
Details at http://icerm.brown.edu/summerug_2014
Deadline to apply feb 7.
2. U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Opportunities (Thanks to Muhammad Mahmood)
(DHS) 2014 HS-STEM Summer Internships
Application deadline: January 6, 2014
Undergraduate students receive a $5,000
stipend plus travel expenses.
Detailed information about the internships can be
found at:http://www.orau.gov/dhseducation/internships/
Faculty research opportunities with future research funding possibility also available:
See http://www.orau.gov/dhseducation/faculty/index.html for
additional details
U.S.
citizenship required
3. The
USAID Payne International Development Program is Now Accepting Applications for
the 2014 Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship
The Payne
Graduate Fellowship Program welcomes applications from young people
interested in careers in international development. Fellows can use the
fellowship to attend two-year master's programs in U.S. institutions to study
any area of relevance to the USAID Foreign Service, including
international development, international relations, public policy, business
administration, foreign languages, economics, agriculture, environmental
sciences, health, or urban planning.
Applicants
must be college seniors or graduates looking to start a two-year graduate
program in fall 2014, must have a GPA of at least 3.2 and must be U.S.
citizens. The program welcomes any undergraduate major and encourages
applications from members of minority groups historically underrepresented in
USAID Foreign Service and those with financial need. Information and
application materials can be found at www.paynefellows.org. The application deadline
is Jan. 27, 2014.
4. The
Department of Energy (DOE) Opportunities
The DOE Mickey
Leland fellowship and DOE Scholars Program are now accepting
applications for Summer 2014.
Visit http://orise.orau.gov/doescholars or http://orise.orau.gov/mlef for more
information or to apply - deadline is January 12, 2014!
5. From NOAA:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is
pleased to announce the availability of scholarships (includes
internships) to college sophomore students majoring in STEM 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.
á Educational
Partnership Program Undergraduate Scholarship: http://www.epp.noaa.gov/ssp_undergrad_page.html
Application Deadline: January
31, 2014
á Ernest
F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program: http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/scholarships/hollings.html
Application
Deadline: January 31, 2014
6. Support
to Attend a Workshop ÒMathematics of Planet Earth: Challenges and
OpportunitiesÓ
(Thanks to
Aziz Yakubu)
A workshop
ÒMathematics of Planet Earth: Challenges and OpportunitiesÓ will be held at
Arizona State University January 7-10, 2014. The workshop aims to expose
students and junior researchers to the challenges facing our planet, the role
of the mathematical sciences in addressing those challenges, and the
opportunities to get involved in the effort. Funds are available to support
participants to attend this workshop and to participate in follow-up
activities. Workshop speakers include Carlos
Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State University, and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
The workshop
will provide introductions to the role of the mathematical sciences in
addressing problems of the planet. There will be an introduction to the five
major workshop themes of MPE 2013+ through expository lectures and discussions.
All participants will be invited to participate in one of the following
workshops, which could include the Education for the Planet Earth of Tomorrow.
An application form can be found athttp://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/MPE2013PreWorkshop/.
It will include both an application to attend and an application
for financial support. Review of applications will begin October 1, 2013, and
will continue until all slots are filled.
For more
information about Challenges and Opportunities workshop as well as the MPE2013+
program, please contact Dr. Eugene Fiorini at mpe2013-plus@dimacs.rutgers.edu.
7. From
Oak Ridge Labs (Thanks to Louise Raphael)
Oak Ridge
National Laboratory (ORNL) has a long history and interest in providing
hands-on research experiences to students at all academic levels.
Please
visit http://www.orau.org/ornl and click on
your academic level to learn more about educational programs at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory. Complete your profile in the Talent and Opportunity System
(TOppS) system and then apply to one or all of the
program postings. Applications must be submitted visa the TOppS
system. See the programs web sites for suggested deadline dates.
8. (via Aziz Yakubu) From
SIAM: Undergraduates can submit to SIAM online journal
Do your
undergraduates conduct exceptional research in applied or computational
mathematics? Please encourage them to submit their work to
SIUROÜSIAM Undergraduate Research Online.
Students who
submit papers to SIURO experience a full review process tailored for
undergraduate authors.
More on the
submission process, the editorial board, and viewable published papers can be
accessed at
http://www.siam.org/students/siuro.
9. (Thanks to
Aziz Yakubu) Volunteer Opportunities in Africa
One HeartSource, a grassroots, non-profit organization founded
by university students is accepting applications for 2014 Volunteer
Programs from both graduate and undergraduate students, especially at Howard University . Since 2008, over 700 international
volunteers have joined One Heart Source in the pursuit of providing
high-quality education and care for vulnerable children in Sub-Saharan Africa.This year we are also offering a 2-week program for
working professionals!
If you or
your students have any questions regarding our programs or organization, please
contact Gabriela Weigel at eastcoast.region@oneheartsource.org
10. (From Aziz Yakubu)
Opportunities at the Navy
HBCU Undergradute
Program:
http://www.onr.navy.mil/Education-Outreach/HBCU-MI-Historically-Black-Colleges/NRL-HBCU-MI-Undergraduate-Internship.aspx
NREIP
Program:
http://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Education-Outreach/undergraduate-graduate/NREIP-naval-internship.aspx
Summer
Faculty Program:
http://www.onr.navy.mil/Education-Outreach/Summer-Faculty-Research-Sabbatical.aspx
11. (From
Aziz Yakubu) Opportunities at NASA
Spring 2014 throug spring of 2015 NASA will have workshops, research
projects and internship opportunities for undergrads in STEM programs.
Howard
students are especially encouraged to apply.
More
information at http://DCSpaceGrant.org/STEM
12. Mathematics
Research Funding Opportunity (thanks to Constance Ellison)
Development of
Mathematical Cognition and Reasoning and the Prevention of Math Learning
Disabilities (R03)
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INTERESTING
ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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1. Love and Math
Louise
Raphael alerts us to a very interesting book and movie coming out to promote
mathematics called ÒLove and mathÓ by UC Berkeley Professor Edward Frenkel. For a WSJ article about this please see attached pdf document.
2. (From Aziz Yakubu) Improving minority
participation in STEM education
Stereotypes
are dangerous—they hurt, they mislead and they ultimately diminish us
all. When whole groups are stereotyped, prejudices that damage the social and
educational fabric result. This problem is evident when women and
minorities are stereotyped in the science, technology, engineering and math
fields known as STEM. The challenge of enrolling and graduating more women and
minorities in STEM fields has drawn national attention. The College Board has
undertaken an initiative to enroll more young women and minority students in
STEM advanced placement courses and the American Association of University
Women has a large outreach program for young women wishing to enter STEM
fields.
As part of
this national conversation, AIRÕs Center for STEM Education and Innovation<http://www.air.org/focus-area/education/?id=10>
held a two-day symposium in late September on using research to inform policies
and practices<http://www.air.org/focus-area/education/index.cfm?fa=viewContent&content_id=2305&id=10>
in STEM education, particularly in higher education.
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