Math Dept 2016-2017 Newsletter
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Monday, 19 September 2016
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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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Our beloved colleague and a truly great man Ralph
B. Turner passed away
on Saturday, September 10. You can see a brief
obituary and also links to
the funeral home website and
guest book here:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=RALPH-B-TURNER&pid=181411195
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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Mondays
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Combinatorics Seminar
Time and topic TBA
Coordinator: Lou Shapiro
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Geometry &
Topology Seminar
This week the speaker will be David James.
Title: Exotic
Spheres And Circle Actions.
Time
: 3:10PM-4:00PM
Place: ASB-B 213.
Coordinator: Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews
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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 2:10--3:00 in Annex
III, room 231 starting Tuesday, September 6.
Neil Hindman will be
talking about "The scarcity of products in S*S*"
Coordinator: Neil Hindman
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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.
The first three talks of the seminar
(On September 7, 14, and 21) will be given by
Mr. Timothy Myers who will be
talking about his thesis work in which he constructs a
Lebesgue Measure on a Banach Space with a Schauder Basis using CaratheodoryÕs approach.
Organizer: Toka Diagana
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Algebra-Number
Theory Seminar
(tentatively) 3.10 to 4 pm, room 201
Will resume soon.
Co-coordinators: Sankar Sitaraman and Dani Szpruch
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Fridays
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
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Friday, September 23
4.10 to 5 pm, ASB-B 213
TBA
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Fluid
dynamics seminar
Seminar usually takes place after colloquium, and
at 4.30 if there is no colloquium.
Abstract: (Neil Hindman)
Fluid Dynamics will be meeting as usual.
This will be provisional.
If student attendance does not improve dramatically
after a few weeks,
financial support for this gathering
will be canceled.
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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous
weeksÕ newsletters Statfest 2016 Saturday, September 24,
2016 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC. Blackwell-Tapia Conference Please register by Sept 30, 2016.
For more information and the online
application, visit http://www.nimbios.org/education/blackwell_tapia
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. Ralph Turner obituary
At the top of this
newsletter.
2. From Lou
Shapiro
We
just had the following article accepted for publication:
Title: Profiles of ordered trees with mutation and
associated Riordan matrices
in the journal Linear Algebra and its
Applications
My
coauthors are Gi-Sang Cheon
and Hana Kim.
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
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1. Student
Recruitment Visit for Harvard MD and PhD programs
Nathan Nakatsuka, an MDPhD
student in the Harvard-MIT program currently doing a PhD in computational
population genetics in the Harvard Systems Biology PhD program and Dr. John
Higgins, a Systems Biology professor are planning to visit Howard on October 26
(with a possible extension to Oct. 27) to reach out to students on behalf of
Harvard MD and PhD (and MDPhD) programs. If you have
any students who may be interested in a MD PhD program at Harvard please
contact Nathan Nakatsuka directly.
2. Opportunities
at various federal agencies
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Several
positions are open with the EPA. EPA Risk Assessment
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developer: https://www.zintellect.com/Posting/Details/2560 Web developer: https://www.zintellect.com/Posting/Details/2556 |
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Software developer: https://www.zintellect.com/Posting/Details/2558 Previous
weeksÕ newsletters 1. Research Education Grant Program
funded by the Department of Education, has an opportunity for
a three-year grant intended for freshmen and senior-level STEM students
with GPAs between 2.00 - 2.99.
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INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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1. (From Louise
Raphael) Dan GoldstonÕs
exposition of progress on twin primes conjecture:
Click here : http://www.maa.org/meetings/calendar-events/prime-numbers-progress-and-pitfalls