Math Dept 2015-2016
Newsletter 1
Monday, 31 August 2015
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Past newsletters can now be
reached via the department website.
Click on ÒRead 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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Welcome to all our new faculty and graduate
students and welcome back to all else.
Please let me know if I have missed anyone or if
you know of anyone who Is no longer part of the Dept.
Also let me know of seminar schedules.
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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Mondays
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Evolution Equations & Dynamical
Systems seminar
TBA
Organizer: Toka
Diagana
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Geometry & Topology Seminar
Our first Fall Semester
meeting will be on: MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2015:
The speaker will be: Dr. Joseph Yeager:
He will be giving a series of talks
on:
SPECTRAL
SEQUENCES IN GENERAL, AND SERRE SPECTRAL SEQUENCE IN PARTICULAR, WITH AN
EXAMPLE FROM HIS THESIS.
TIME :
3:10PM-4:00PM,
PLACE;
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT, ROOM: 0213
ABSTRACT:
I plan to approach the subject from the point of view of differential
groups and exact couples, a la Massey.
Coordinator: Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews
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Tuesdays
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Topological Semigroups
and Ramsey Theory Seminar
TBA
Coordinator: Neil Hindman
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Wednesdays
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Combinatorics Seminar
TBA
Coordinator: Lou Shapiro
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Graduate Student Seminar
TBA
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Fridays
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Applied Mathematics Working Seminar
TBA
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Algebra
/ Number Theory Seminar
We plan to do a seminar series next semester on
the book ÒFourier analysis on number fields.Ó
All interested graduate students and faculty are
invited to join us for a planning meeting on Friday, Sep 4 from
3 to 4pm, room 219 ASB-B.
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
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Friday, Sep 4
Title TBA
4.10 to 5 pm, ASB-B 213
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Fluid dynamics seminar
Fluid dynamics will resume the Friday after
Labor Day -- that's September 11.
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 WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
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1. (via
Talitha Washington) SACNAS
(Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in
Science) Conference will be held in Washington, DC on October 29-31. Dr. Talitha Washington is on the Local Organizing Committee.
See: http://sacnas.org/events/national-conf
2. (via
Aziz Yakubu and Talitha
Washington) Mathematics of Planet Earth Conference
(Travel funding may be available)
The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for the Mathematics
of Planet Earth 2013+ Workshop on Education for the Planet Earth of Tomorrow
to be held Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2015, at NIMBioS.
Objectives: The issues facing the
planet call for a new type of workforce, trained in multidisciplinary and
multi-national communication and collaboration. Held at the National Institute
for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis at the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville,
the workshop will focus on planning for the multidisciplinary education of
students as well as workforce development. The workshop will produce a MPE 2013+ Education Plan for the wider mathematical sciences
community and those interested in high school, undergraduate and graduate
education. Discussion sessions and panels will be included, as well as invited
speakers with expertise in green education, communications, and undergraduate
mathematics education. This workshop is supported by the Center for Discrete
Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) and funded by the
National Science Foundation.
Location: NIMBioS at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
For more information about the workshop, go to http://www.nimbios.org/education/WS_mpe2015
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. (via Talitha Washington) The NAM
Newsletter can be found online: http://nam-newsletter.org/
2. Roberto
de Leo had a
paper accepted: "Weak
solutions of the cohomological equation in the plane
for regular vector fields"
http://www.ca.infn.it/~deleo/weakce-rev1.pdf
has been accepted for publication on "Mathematical Physics, Analysis
and Geometry".
This
is the continuation of two previous papers of his, one of which joint work with
T. Gramchev and A. Kirillov,
on the solvability of the
cohomological equation on the plane (i.e. Xf=g, where X is a vector field and g a C^k
function) for vector fields without zeros.
In
the paper he discusses some global and local geometrical property of planar
foliations and then use them to provide explicit conditions
for
the existence of solutions with given strong or weak regularity.
3. (via Aziz Yakubu) PICMath
PICMath,
short for ÒPreparation for Industrial Careers in the Mathematical Sciences,Ó is
an NSF-funded project to prepare math science students for industrial careers
by engaging them in research problems that come directly from industry. A
series of case study videos has been released, each in two parts to cover both
the career and the technical background needed. Research problems featured
include:
Improving Marketing Strategies
Creating More Realistic Animation for Movies
Building a Better Filter
Finding the Safest Place to Store Nuclear Waste
See the Industrial Math Case Studies videos at
http://www.maa.org/programs/faculty-and-departments/pic-math/solving-real-world-problems
The strong focus of this project is
increasing awareness about career options.
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
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1. Opportunities at
various federal agencies
Through the Oak Ridge Institute for
Science and Education (ORISE), motivated post-graduates
(M.S. and/or PhD) in computational
physics, chemistry and other areas are
sought by
research teams at NETL .
For more information, please visit http://orau.gov/netl/open-projects/projects.html
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and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation. If weÕre
not able to make it to your campus this Fall, be sure to check out our
internship and co-op opportunities by visiting: http://www.sandia.gov/careers/students_postdocs/internships/index.html |
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INTERSTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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1. (via Louise Raphael) NYTimes article on
Terry Tao
An interesting article about Terence Tao —