Math Dept 2016-2017 Newsletter 19
Monday, 24
April 2017
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Past newsletters can now be reached via the department website.
[Click on ÒRead the NewsletterÓ in the
bottom].
This will be the last for this academic year. Have a great summer!
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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Geometry &
Topology Seminar
Monday April 24
No seminar for the rest of the semester.
Time: 3:10PM-4:00PM
Place: ASB-B 213.
Coordinator: Stanley M.
Einstein-Matthews
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Thesis Defense, Moussa Doumbia , April 24
Thesis Title: Malaria Parametric Models with
Applications to Disease Incidence in Mali and Nigeria
PhD Advisor: Abdul-Aziz Yakubu
External Examiner: Fern Hunt (National
Institute of Standards and Technology)
Chair of the Dissertation Committee: Neil Hindman
Other Committee Members: Katharine Gurski and Talitha
Washington
Defense Time: starts at 2:30 PM
Defense Location: Room 201 - Graduate School
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Special Colloquium, April
24 Bourama Toni, Virginia State U. 4:10pm – 5:00pm Generalized Theory of Limit Cycles and applications: From Euclidean spaces, Game Theory to Non-Archimedean
spaces with extension to Berkovich spaces. |
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Tuesdays
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Topological Semigroups and Ramsey Theory Seminar
The Seminar on Topological Semigroups and Ramsey Theory will meet
tuesdays from
11:10--12:00 in Annex III, room 231.
Dennis
Davenport speaking on "A Combinatorial Characterization of Strongly
Central Sets".
Coordinator: Neil Hindman
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Thesis Defense, Haleemah Ghazwani
Tuesday, April 25, 2017.
PhD Candidate: Haleemah
Ghazwani
Thesis Title: On Algebraic Curves of the Form f(y) = (lambda) f(x) Over Finite Fields
PhD Advisor: Francois Ramaroson
External Examiner: Leon Woodson (Morgan State
University)
Chair of the Dissertation Committee: Paul Peart
Other Committee Members: Toka
Diagana and Sankar Sitaraman
Defense Time: starts at 1:30 PM
Defense Location: Room 101 - Graduate School
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Wednesdays
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Evolution Equations
& Dynamical Systems seminar
1:10-2:00, in ROOM 213 OF ASB-B.
The seminar will cover all areas and
subareas
of evolution equations and dynamical systems
as well as their applications.
Organizer: Toka
Diagana
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Graduate Student Seminar
3.10 to 4pm, Graduate Student Office
Organizer: Kendra Pleasant
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Thursday, April 27, 2017 12:00 Noon
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Retirement Luncheon Blackburn Center -
Gallery Lounge |
Celebration of the many years
of outstanding service by our beloved colleagues
Richard Bayne, Neil Hindman,
Joshua Leslie and Louise Raphael.
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Fridays
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Analysis, PDE and Applied Math Seminar.
Friday, April 28
Details TBA
12:10pm - 1:00pm,
ASB–B # 213
Co-ordinator:
Henok Mawi
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Mathematics
Department Colloquium
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Friday, April 28
No
colloquium for the rest of the semester.
4.10 to 5 pm, ASB-B 213
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Fluid dynamics seminar
Seminar takes place after colloquium, and
does not take place if there is no colloquium.
Abstract: (Neil Hindman)
Fluid Dynamics will be meeting as
usual.
The "Fluid" refers to soda and
beer.
The "Dynamics" refers to
the topics of conversation, which is as likely as anything to deal with
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. (thanks to Aziz Yakubu) Saturday, April 29: Howard University Workshop on Modeling
Mathematical Modeling of Neuropathies and Neuropsychiatric
Illnesses.
Please remember to register for the workshop.
Registration is free and it helps us in logistics planning.
To register please go to
http://humathbio.weebly.com/future-workshops.html
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2. Statistics and Evaluation InstituteÕs FREE
summer workshops.
Students and research staff who might be interested can
complete online
application form.
The Howard University Graduate School presents the
NAEP-Howard statistics and evaluation institute
2016.
FREE for all graduate students and research staff at Howard
University.
Further
information is available at www.HowardSEI.org or by email: HowardSEI@gmail.com.
Basic Quantitative Methods and Statistics Workshop
May 15-May 26, 10am-2pm, will focus on
hypothesis development, study design, correlation, ANOVA and regression
techniques with single predictors.
Multivariate Research Methods and Statistics, May 30- June 9, 10am-2pm,
will focus on design and analysis of studies with multiple predictors,
including correlational and experimental methods.
Educational
Testing Service is fully supporting the NAEP-Howard Statistics and Evaluation
Institute through the NAEP-ETS Howard University Collaborative. The
Institute is coordinated through the Graduate School.
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In
past newsletters:
Data-Driven
Modeling of Collective Behavior and Emergent Phenomena in Biology (DDM-Bio)
June 5-7, 2017 – SAMSI
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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In past newsletters
HU-Teach Initiative
Open positions at Howard Math Department
Mathematica and WolframAlpha online access
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
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1. Opportunities at various federal agencies
EPA
Database and UNIX Administrator Associate
EPA Exposure Assessment Research Associate
Environmental
Research Communications Associate
Information on these and more at:
https://twitter.com/GovCareerPaths
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In previous newsletters:
Higher Education Research Experiences (HERE) Program
Humboldt Research
Fellowships for faculty
Budapest
Semesters in Mathematics Education (BSME)
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INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathonkeats/2017/03/31/mathematicians-met/#7d79b2d83a8b