Math Dept 2014-2015 Newsletter 17
Monday, 9 March 2015
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Click on ŇRead the NewsletterÓ in the bottom.
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
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Mondays
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Evolution Equations & Dynamical Systems
seminar
Mondays 12.10 to 1pm, 213 ASB-B
On March 9, Prof. Paul Bezandry
will speak on ŇAlmost Periodic Random Sequences.Ó
Organizer: Toka Diagana
Geometry & Topology Seminar
Place: Mathematics Department Room: ASB-B 213.
Time: 3.10PM -4.00PM.
Coordinator: Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews
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Tuesdays
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Topological Semigroups and Ramsey
Theory Seminar
12:10-1:00 in Annex III room 231.
Neil Hindman will be speaking on
"Some Ramsey type theorems for k-term sums in R".
Coordinator: Neil Hindman
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Wednesdays
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Combinatorics Seminar
2 to 3 pm, 201 or 203 ASB-B
Coordinator: Lou Shapiro
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Wednesday March 11
Graduate Student Seminar
Daouda Ballo
"Optical
MathematicsÓ
Room No.
229 of the Annex III building, from 1:10 to 2:00pm
Thursday, March 12
Special
Colloquium
ASB-B 213, Time
TBA
Joshua
Weitz, Associate Professor, School of Biology,
Georgia Tech University
Mathematical Models of the Ebola Virus Disease
Outbreak in West Africa: Principles, Predictions, and Control
More details at
http://ecotheory.biology.gatech.edu/
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Fridays
Applied
Mathematics Working Seminar
2:10-3 pm in ASB-B room 213
Currently in the seminar, Dr. Henok
Mawi is leading a "Discussion on the Refractor
Problem". This problem Ňoriginates in engineering in the study the
reflecting surfaces to reshape electromagnetic radiation in a prescribed
mannerÓ (http://www.wright.edu/~qingbo.huang/refraction.pdf).
He will provide background material to state the problem, discuss recent
advances that include numerical applications, and then state open questions.
Next, Dr. Roberto DeLeo will discuss the numerics associated to this problem via Perl( https://www.perl.org/).
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
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1. Metro Area Differential Geometry Seminar (MadGuys)
The Baltimore-Washington Metro Area Differential Geometry
Seminar (MADGuyS for short) is a new joint
seminar between the math departments of University of Maryland - College Park , Howard University and of Johns Hopkins University.
We meet twice a year, alternating between locations, for a
day of talks on various topics in geometry.
Next meeting:
Saturday April 18, 2015
Krieger Hall, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD
Speakers: Christine
Breiner (Fordham), Mark Haskins (Imperial College
London)
,L‡szl— Lempert (Purdue)
For further information, please contact Roberto De Leo or
Stanley Einstein-Matthews.
2. AWM Symposium showcasing Women MathematiciansŐ
Research
As a member of the Executive Committee of the Association
for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Talitha Washington
would like to share information about the upcoming AWM Research Symposium
2015 that will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, April
11-12, 2015. The symposium will showcase the research of women in the
mathematical professions. It will feature four plenary talks, special sessions
on a broad range of research in pure and applied mathematics, and poster
sessions for graduate students and recent PhDs.
3. Ki-Net and
CNA Workshop
http://www.math.cmu.edu/cna/KiNetCNA/index.html
http://www.ki-net.umd.edu/content/conf?event_id=292
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Center for Nonlinear Analysis
Pittsburgh, May 27-29, 2015
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. (from
Neil Hindman) Call for Nominations: Speakers for
Sectional meeting of the AMS at Stony Brook. There will be a sectional meeting of the AMS in
Stony Brook this spring. Neil Hindman is on
the Eastern Section Program Committee, whose job it is to determine the
invited addresses at the sectional meetings. He has been asked to ask
his colleagues for suggestions. Such speakers are not only supposed to
be accomplished mathematicians, but also good speakers. If you have
suggestions, please contact Neil. 2. Call For Papers: Howard Workshop
on Management of Natural Resources this summer To maintain the long-term well being of the global
population, management of the world's natural resources must emphasize
conservation and renewal over depletion and spending. Natural resource
management is a broad topic with both national and international policy
implications. This workshop will investigate challenges for the mathematical
sciences including models that describe processes affecting water, forests,
and food supplies. They involve complex adaptive systems that interconnect
natural systems with human ones, thus calling for understanding of both types
of systems. To support this initiative, the Center for Discrete Mathematics
and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) will sponsor a workshop on
Management of Natural Resources as part of a special program called
Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013+ (http://mpe2013.org/mpe2013index/).
The workshop will be held at Howard University in Washington, DC on June 4-6,
2015. Aziz Yakubu will be one of the speakers. For more details including program and guideline for
submission go to: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/NaturalResources/ 3. (via Aziz Yakubu) SIAM
Activity Group on Mathematics of Planet Earth (SIAG/MPE) This activity group will focus on
planet Earth, its life-supporting capacity, and the impact of human
activities. With the establishment of SIAG/MPE,
SIAM recognizes the responsibility of the mathematics and computational
science community to address the issues of global change, loss of
biodiversity, and sustainable development. The new Activity Group will
provide a forum in SIAM to discuss the mathematical and computational issues
of climate, sustainability, ecology, natural resources, food
systems, the environment, socio-economic systems, and related topics.
SIAG/MPE will join forces with other disciplines to further interdisciplinary
research in these new application areas. Activities will include a biennial SIAM
Conference on Mathematics of Planet Earth, minisymposia
at SIAM Annual Meetings, workshops, and other conferences. The
inaugural meeting of SIAG/MPE is scheduled for the fall of 2016. Membership is open to SIAM members,
who can join the Activity Group at https://my-helper.siam.org/forms/join_siag.htm or by
calling SIAM Customer Service (http://www.siam.org/contact/).
SIAM membership is free for many students and includes
membership in two SIAGs, so we encourage students to join SIAM and add
SIAG/MPE to their subscription. By joining SIAG/MPE, your name will be
added to our e–mailing list, which is used to announce conferences and
opportunities related to Mathematics of Planet Earth. A SIAG/MPE web portal
is in preparation. 4. (via Aziz Yakubu) Major
Grant for Department of African-American Studies The Department of African Studies took the lead to
submit a proposal to the US Department of Education under the Title VI
National Resource Centers (NRC) and Foreign Language and Area Studies
Fellowship (FLAS) programs in order to enhance Africa related teaching,
research and creative work at Howard University. Fortunately, our proposal
was successful and we were awarded a grant of $1.7 million over 4 years. This
grant establishes Howard University as one of 10 National Resource Centers
for African Studies, including Yale, University of Florida-Gainesville,
University of Illinois-Champaign, Boston University, Harvard University,
Michigan State University, UNC-Chapel Hill, UW-Madison and University of
Minnesota. |
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (from various
sources)
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1. Congresswoman
NortonŐs Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Scholarships
Details and Applications here
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CBC Spouses Visual Arts Scholarship: The CBC Spouses
Visual Arts Scholarship was established in 2006 for students who are pursuing
a career in the visual arts. Deadline: May 1, 2015 CBC Spouses Heineken USA Performing Arts Scholarship:
Established in the year 2000, the CBC Spouses Heineken USA Performing Arts
scholarship program was developed in honor of the late Curtis Mayfield to
ensure that students pursuing a career in the performing arts receive the
financial assistance to achieve their goals. Deadline: May 1 2015 CBC Spouses Education Scholarship: The CBC Spouses
Education scholarship is a national program that awards scholarships to
academically talented and highly motivated students who intend to pursue
full-time undergraduate, graduate or doctoral degrees. Deadline: may 22nd 2015. For more information
contact Del. NortonŐs N.E. District Office @ (202) 408-9041 |
2. DOE Postdoctoral fellowship in Solar Energy
Research
In order to spur innovation in solar energy, the U.S.
Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable energy (EERE) is
now accepting applications for postdoctoral researchers in solar energy to
participate in the EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards. The EERE Postdoctoral
Research Awards support research on energy efficiency and renewable energy to
help solve our nationŐs energy challenges. This year, this exciting program
will offer up to five recent Ph.D. recipients the opportunity to conduct
applied research projects to advance breakthrough solar energy technologies at
universities, national laboratories and other research facilities. Former
recipients of the EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards are now faculty and staff
scientists at major research institutions and national laboratories.
The application period for the EERE Postdoctoral Research
Awards closes on May 7, 2015. The awards will be announced in July 2015 for the
projects to start in September 2015.
3. (via Louise Raphael) Faculty summer workshop on (Preparing
students for industrial careers in mathematical sciences
The
deadline for applying to the PIC Math (Preparing students for industrial
careers in mathematical sciences) program is coming up - March 31. This program
offers a free summer training workshop for new participating faculty and a
$5000 stipend for new faculty ($3000 for returning faculty) with the
requirement that the faculty teach a PIC Math course during the spring 2016
semester. The PIC Math program provides some material for the course including
a set of actual research problem from industry. Students work on one of these
research problems and learn skills necessary to succeed in a non-academic
career. Professors have taught this course as a capstone course, a math modeling course, an undergraduate research course, or a
readings course.
If you have undergraduate students who are
interested in non-academic careers or if you are interested in learning more
about how math is used outside of academia and why mathematician was ranked as
the number 1 career in 2014, please apply to the program. Last year, which was
the first year of the program, we could only accept 30 professors, but this
year we have resources to accept 55 professors.
More details are available at www.maa.org/picmath.
4. Mathematics Research Communities program for 2015 for Early
Career Mathematicians
The AMS would like to encourage you to consider applying to the
Mathematics Research Communities program for 2015. This dynamic program is
designed to support you as you begin your research career. We hope that
you will meet others working in your area with whom
you can forge long-lasting collaborations.
The program includes funding to support you at the summer conference in
Snowbird, Utah, and partial funding to attend the Joint Mathematics Meetings in
Seattle next January. In 2015, the topics will be Commutative Algebra,
Financial Mathematics, Differential Equations, Probability and Sea Ice.
Please consider applying if your research falls in one of these areas.
For more information about the individual conferences and for instructions on
how to apply, please go to http://www.ams.org/programs/research-communities/mrc-15.
The deadline for applications is March 1, 2015. The Mathematics Research
Communities program is supported by a grant from the National Science
Foundation.
5. Opportunities at
various federal agencies
i) Homeland
Security (DHS) Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) Summer Internship
Program will provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to
participate in projects focused on helping DNDO meet its mission of
Ňimplementing domestic nuclear detection efforts for a managed and coordinated
response to radiological and nuclear threats, as well as integration of federal
nuclear forensics programs.Ó
Applications
close on March 16 at 12 a.m.
More details at https://www.zintellect.com/Posting/details/824
ii) EPA Part Time Student Position in Cincinnati – Year Round!
The
EPA Laboratories in Cincinnati has a part-time position within the
Safety, Health, and Environmental Management (SHEM) Program.
The
Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Program Support Associate will
assist the SHEM team with technical and administrative duties required to
implement national, state, and local SHEM regulations and guidelines in the
workplace.
The position is
expected to begin in April 2015. Apply today! For more information, and to
access the application, visit our website: www.orau.org/epa. Questions? Email EPAJobs@orau.org
iii) A
fellowship opportunity is available within the Office of Health Communication
and Education (OHCE) at the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) of the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA).
For more information: http://orau.org/science-education/internships-scholarships-fellowships/description.aspx?JobId=17490
iv) Oak Ridge National Lab: The Reactor and
Nuclear Systems Division at ORNL is searching for a qualified Research
Associate to conduct detailed numerical verification of the various methods
used to solve the Boltzmann transport equation.
Interested? To apply, go to www.zintellect.com, make an account, and enter
the reference code ORNL15-21-RNSD to find the position posting. Refer questions
to ORNLedu@orau.org.
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INTERSTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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Book on Riemann Hypothesis by Barry Mazur and William Stein
(Thanks to our friend from Purdue,
Edray Goins)
The two well
known number theorists provide an exposition of the famous problem accessible
to curious high school students and engineers. The book nevertheless has insights for all
mathematicians. They use numerical examples in a central way and sprinkle anecdotes
and examples from music and literature to computer science. The main theme is a
presentation of the relationship between the zeroes of the Riemann Zeta
Function and the primes in terms of spectra and Fourier analysis.
The online book and a talk by Mazur outlining the
book are available at http://wstein.org/rh/