Math Dept 2013-2014 Newsletter 17

 

Monday, 17 February 2014

 

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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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Every Monday

 

1. Combinatorics Seminar

 

Details TBA.

 

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

 

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Every Tuesday

 

The Seminar on Topological Semigroups and Ramsey Theory

 

Tuesdays at 11:10 a.m in room 233 of Annex III

Neil Hindman will be speaking on separating subrings of the rationals by partition regular matrices.

 

Organizer: Neil Hindman

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Friday Feb 21

 

Mathematics Department Colloquium

 

4.10 to 5 pm, ASB-B 213

 

Speaker: Dragomir Saric, Queen's College

Title: TBA

 

Fluid dynamics seminar

 

Seminar will take place after colloquium, and at 4.30 if there is no colloquium.

 

 

Abstract:  (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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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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1. Roberto de Leo is happy to announce that his first paper as a Faculty member

at Howard has been accepted for publication.

 

The title of the paper is "On the exponential growth of norms in

semigroups of linear endomorphisms and the Hausdorff dimension of

attractors of projective Iterated Function Systems" and it will be

published on the Journal of Geometrical Analysis

(http://www.springer.com/mathematics/geometry/journal/12220).

 

Here is a preprint: http://www.ca.infn.it/~deleo/sg-jga.pdf

  

 

2. (Talitha Washington) Advanced Computational Biology Symposium will take place at Howard on March 26, 2014.

Topics include Molecular Simulation & Design, Systems Biology, Genomics and Big Data. 

See http://CompBioSymposium.com for further details.

 

 

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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (from various sources)

 

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1. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

SunShot Postdoctoral Research Awards

 

The SunShot Postdoctoral Research Awards support innovative solar research by offering recent Ph.D. recipients the opportunity to conduct applied R&D at universities, national laboratories, and other research facilities.

Application Deadline: April 30, 2014

For more information and to apply, visit:

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/education/postdoctoral

 

2. (Aziz Yakubu) AMS-Simons Travel Grants

 

Applications are now being accepted, with support provided by the Simons Foundation. The grant provides an early-career mathematician with $2,000 per year for two years to be used for research-related travel.

 

The application period for 2014 is February 1, 2014 through 11:59 pm eastern time on March 31, 2014.  

To learn more about eligibility and how to apply, visit

 

http://www.ams.org/programs/travel-grants/AMS-SimonsTG

 

 

3. From Oak Ridge Labs

 

Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Heidelberg, Germany, from September 21 through 26, 2014. NSF and ORAU invite your institution to nominate graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to be members of the U.S. Delegation to this prestigious meeting.

 

The first Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) was held in 2013 bringing together winners of the Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Turing Award, and Rolf Nevanlinna Prize with young researchers in Heidelberg, Germany on the campus of the University of Heidelberg. U.S. delegation members will receive all business-related expenses to attend the HLF along with some additional benefits. 

 

 Specific eligibility criteria and a nomination form may be found on our web site: http://www.orau.org/hlf. All applicants to the U.S. delegation must also apply to attend to the HLF Foundation at http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/call-for-application.

 

All nominations must be submitted before Monday, March 3, 2014 at 12:00 pm, Eastern Time.  

 

4. From Oak Ridge Labs 

Graduate Internship opportunities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

 

The Computational Data Analytics Research Group (CDAG) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has multiple openings for Graduate Interns in the field of Data Analytics Research. https://www3.orau.gov/ORNL_TOppS/Posting/Details/516

 

The Computing and Computational Science Directorate (CCSD) at ORNL oversees ORNLÕs store of computing power and its talented staff of computational scientists and mathematicians. CCSD has multiple Graduate Internship openings in the fields of: High-Performance File Systems and Storage; Communications Middleware; HPC Languages and Tools (programming languages, compilers, runtimes, and tools for high-performance computers); Large-Scale and Data-Intensive, Collaborative, Scientific Applications.  https://www3.orau.gov/ORNL_TOppS/Posting/Details/515

 

 

5. (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

 

6. (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

 

7. RECONNECT Workshop 2014 Forensics

 

Where:  Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, MA

When:   June 1-7, 2014

 

The CCICADA Summer Reconnect Workshops expose faculty teaching undergraduates to the role of the mathematical and computer sciences in homeland security and provide an opportunity to researchers in government or industry to learn about recent material in various areas.

 

Deadline for Applications is February 28, 2014 or until all slots are filled. 

 

For more information visit the Reconnect web page 

http://ccicada.org/Reconnect/2014/.

 

8. Opportunity in China for graduate students and post-docs.  OTS and the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical (XTBG: Chinese Academy of Sciences) are offering a new course on  ÒThe Ecology of Climate Change in the Tropics and Sub-TropicsÓ.  The course dates are June 16-July 16, 2014.

More information: Go to http://ots.ac.cr/ and look under ÒGraduate Programs.Ó

 

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INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES

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1. (Louise Raphael) A free pdf link to the National Academy of Sciences report on Math Sciences in 2025 is here:

 

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=15269

 

 

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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