Math Dept 2014-2015 Newsletter 2

Monday, 8 September 2014

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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT 

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Mondays

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Geometry & Topology Seminar

First meeting this Semester on Monday, September 8.

Speaker: Joseph Yeager

Topic:  Contact Topology

Place: Mathematics Department Room: ASB-B 213.

Time: 3.00PM -4.00PM.

Coordinator:  Professor Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews

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Tuesdays

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Topological Semigroups and Ramsey Theory Seminar

1:10-2:00 in Annex III room 231.

Neil Hindman will be speaking on recent results on partition regularity of matrices.

 Co-ordinator: Neil Hindman

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Wednesdays 

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Combinatorics Seminar

2.10 to 3 pm, Room 203, ASB-B

Co-ordinator: Lou Shapiro

 

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Fridays

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Mathematics Department Colloquium

4.10 to 5 pm, ASB-B 213

Friday, Sep 12

 

 

 

Cheyne Homberger, U. of Florida

 

Title: Popularity and Separability: Counting Patterns in Restricted Permutations

 

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 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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 1. (via Aziz Yakubu) Lecture in celebration of Lee Lorch

 

Thursday, September 11, 2014, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

MAA Carriage House, 1781 Church Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

Lee Lorch, who died earlier this year at the age of 98, was a mathematician and a civil rights activist. He taught at City College in New York and a number of HBCU's, and was fired from several of these because of his activism. He spent most of his career at York University in Toronto. 

Our speakers will survey Lorch's contributions, the progress that has been made, and what still needs to be done.

 

A reception will follow this event.

 

Learn more about Lorch's contributions.

Organized by Joe Auslander, Professor of Mathematics (emeritus) University of Maryland, and Michael Pearson, MAA Executive Director

2. (via Aziz Yakubu) BLACKWELL-TAPIA CONFERENCE

The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics is pleased to host the Blackwell-Tapia and Awards Conference Ceremony on November 14 – 15, 2014 at the UCLA Campus. The conference and prize honors David Blackwell and Richard Tapia, two distinguished mathematical scientists who have been inspirations to more than a generation of African American, Latino/Latina, and Native American students and professionals in the mathematical sciences.

 The 2014 Blackwell-Tapia Prize will be presented to Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver, Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University. Hughes-Oliver has made important contributions in a number of statistical research areas including methodological research on prediction and classification, variable and model selection with dimension reduction, design of experiments, and spatial modeling. 

We welcome you attend the conference and encourage those needing funding to apply on the conference webpage at:

https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/BTAP2014

3. (via Aziz Yakubu) Fields Institute, Toronto, CA

 This month Simon Brendle of Stanford University will give the Distinguished Lectures and Sylvia Serfaty of Universite Paris 6 will give the Coxeter Lectures. For the entire list of events please go to http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/

 4. (via Aziz Yakubu) Dynamical Systems and Related Topics Workshop October 16-19, 2014

The 25th Fall meeting of the Workshop in ÒDynamical Systems and Related TopicsÓ will take place on October 16 - 19, 2014.  The workshop will be dedicated to the 70th birthday of Anatole Katok and his 50 years of research in dynamical systems. All lectures will be held at the Mathematics Department (114 McAllister Building) at the Penn State University Park campus.This workshop has been hosted each fall since 1991 by Penn State University and each spring since 1992 by the University of Maryland, and is jointly sponsored by the two institutions. The basic funding of the workshop is provided by an NSF grant. Additional funding for this meeting is provided by the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at Penn State.

Conference web site : http://www.math.psu.edu/dynsys/dw_2014/

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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1. Kobi Aboyomi recent publications

1. Cao, Abayomi, Gebraeel Probabilistic 'Best Set' Sorting Algorithms for Multivariate Prognostics. To Appear, Fall 2014 - Algorithms and Computation (2014)

2. Darity, Hamilton, Abayomi Tracking Inequality: Lorenz Curves (with error) over Race and Place - Methodology for The National Asset Scorecard. Ford Foundation (2014)

3. Abayomi, Mukherjee Univariate and Multivariate Predictions for the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. United Nations Development Programme (2014)

 

2. Toka Diagana 

A.      My following papers/book chapters have been either published or accepted for publication:

 1.  (Book Chapter) T. Diagana, Perturbations of Unbounded Fredholm Linear Operators. To Appear in the Handbook on Operator Theory, Springer, 2014.

2.  T. Diagana, Existence Results for Some Nonautonomous Integro-differential Equations. Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis 2014 (in press). 

3.  (Book Chapter) T. Diagana (with M. Zitane), Stepanov-like Pseudo-Almost Periodic Functions in Lebesgue Spaces with Variable Exponents.  New Frontiers of Multidisciplinary Research in STEM-H, Springer, 2014 (in press).

4.  T. Diagana (with R. Kerby, T. H. Miabey, and F. Ramaroson), Spectral Analysis for Finite Rank Perturbations of Diagonal Operators in Non-Archimedean Hilbert Space. P-adic Numbers, Ultrametric Analysis, and Applications. Vol. 6 (2014), no. 3, pp. 171-187.

5.  T. Diagana (with K. Ezzinbi and M. Miraoui), Pseudo-Almost Periodic and Pseudo-Almost Automorphic Solutions to Evolution Equations Involving Theoretical Measure. Cubo: A Mathematical Journal. Vol. 16 (2014), no. 2, pp. 1-31.

6.  T. Diagana, Almost Automorphic Solutions to a Beverton-Holt Dynamic Equation with Survival Rate. Applied Mathematics Letters, Vol. 36 (2014), pp. 19-24.

7.   T. Diagana, Existence Results for Some Damped Second-Order Volterra Integro-differential Equations. Applied Mathematics and Computation Vol. 237 (2014), pp. 304-317.

 B.  I was invited to the Ò13th International Conference on p-adic Functional AnalysisÓ held in Paderborn, Germany, from 08/12/2014 to 08/16/2014 and gave a lecture who title is ÒSpectral Analysis for Finite Rank Perturbations of Diagonal Operators in Non-Archimedean Hilbert SpaceÓ.

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 SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (from various sources)

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1. Frog Tutoring

 

Frog Tutoring are looking to hire Howard University tutors  to work with students in the DC area.

Students who want to learn more information about Frog Tutoring, please visit their website:   http://dc.frogtutoring.com/

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INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES

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1.  (From Aziz Yakubu) New York Times article on science in Africa

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/opinion/africa-needs-science-not-aid.html?ref=international

2. (From Amir Maleki and others) Fields Medal awardees

This year the Fields medal awardees include many firsts. For the first time a woman mathematician (Maryam Mirzakhani) and mathematicians from India (Manjul Bhargava), Iran (also Maryam Mirzakhani) and South America (Artur Avila) won the Fields medal. For a nice description of their work and life please go to http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta_tag/fields-medal/----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------