Math Dept
2017-2018 Newsletter 7
Monday, 4 December 2017
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[Click on
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Newsletter is
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This will be
the last of the semester.
Hope your
final week goes smoothly and wish you happy holidays.
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MEETINGS AND
SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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Mondays
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Geometry
& Topology Seminar
Monday, December 4
The speaker
for Nov. 27 was Chiekh Ndiaye
And the topic was
VANISHING VISCOSITY
AND TOPOLOGICAL METHODS FOR THE RESONANT Q-CURVATURE EQUATION.
Please contact coordinator
for information about Dec 4 seminar.
3:10PM-4:00PM
Place: ASB-B
213.
Coordinator:
Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews
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Wednesdays
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Graduate Student Seminar
3.10 to 4pm,
Room 213 ASB-B
Open to all
faculty and students.
Coordinator:
Matthew Cavallo
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Mathematics
Department Colloquium
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Friday,
December 8
No
colloquium this week.
But
all are welcome to Departmental Holiday
Party
Room 213, 12 to 4pm.
Please
contact Ms. Johnson to rsvp and contribute.
12 to 4 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:
Fluid Dynamics will be meeting as usual.
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.
Donations for
fluid dynamics refreshments are requested. The staff is currently underfunded
for this.
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TALKS AND
WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
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1.
(Thanks to Talitha Washington) Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) Workshops
The
2018 Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) Workshops will be at MAA Carriage House,
Washington, DC in June 2018.
See: http://www.inquirybasedlearning.org/workshops/#/dc2018/
Person
of contact: Stan Yoshinobu, styoshin@calpoly.edu
2.
(Thanks to Louise Raphael) QUBES
workshop on integrating sustainability into lectures
Are
you interested in adopting interdisciplinary modules that address
sustainability and climate change into your classroom? Apply now to join us for
the Spring 2018 InTeGrate/QUBES Faculty Mentoring
Network (FMN).
Participants
in this FMN will focus on how to use data-driven modules designed by the InTeGrate Project in undergraduate biology courses.
Accepted applicants will participate in biweekly virtual sessions (including
the late January 2018 kick-off event) and then continue to collaborate and
receive mentoring online as they customize and implement activities in their
own classrooms.
Applications
are due December 11, 2017. Please visit https://qubeshub.org/groups/integrate2018
for additional information and instructions about
how to apply.
In previous newsletters:
Presentations by Recent
Doctoral Recipients at JMM
Recommendations
are solicited for NAMÕs new PhD session, the Granville-Browne-Haynes Session of
Presentations
by Recent Doctoral Recipients in the Mathematical
Sciences, to be held at the Joint Mathematics Meetings to be held in
January
2018 in San Diego, CA.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1.
Putnam exam was given in the
department on Dec 2. Three of our students participated.
Please
encourage your students to attend math club and math team meetings
and participate in math competitions. They may
contact Lou Shapiro or Jill McGowan.
2.
(From Dean Mair via Katharine Gurski)
Matlab License
The
university has a site license for MATLAB. We need to use it or we will lose it,
so please encourage students and faculty to request
a download of the software.
Please
contact the universityÕs help desk for downloads.
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (from
various sources)
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1. University of NebraskaÕs 2018 Summer Research Program.
Our 10-week residential summer research experience provides
mentoring and research participation while allowing scholars to preview graduate
school life at a Research1 university. Participants all receive competitive
stipends, room and board, travel/transport, graduate school preparation
workshops, social and networking activities, and more.
Details at https://www.unl.edu/summerprogram/home
In
previous newsletters:
MIT Broad Institute Research Internships
Mathematics Open Positions
NOAA Undergraduate
Scholarships
2018 Summer Research Team
Program for Minority Serving Institutions
Department of Homeland Security Summer Internships
National
Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences
2018 Mathematical
Sciences Graduate Internship Program
DARPA
Young Faculty Award (YFA) program
NSF Dear Colleague
Letters (Funding Opportunities).
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INTERESTING
ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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In
the first article below, you will see that tuition remission will count as
income for graduate students putting them in a much higher tax
bracket. The second concerns the mental health of graduate students.
http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2017/04/phd-students-face-significant-mental-health-challenges