Math Dept 2017-2018
Newsletter 12
Monday, 26 March 2018
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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Mondays
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Combinatorics Seminar
Meeting in ASB-B 203, 2.10 pm on Mondays.
Coordinator: Louis Shapiro
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Geometry & Topology Seminar
Monday, March 26.
Joseph Yeager will talk on “A
Modified Bott Conjecture In Cohomogeneity
Two. ”
Time : 3:10pm-4:00pm,
Place: ASB-B 213.
Coordinator: Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews
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TUESDAYS
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Seminar On Topological Semigroups
Dennis Davenport writes:
I would like to continue the seminar on
topological semigroups and Ramsey Theory started by
Neil Hindman many moons ago. Neil has since retired,
but he informed me that he would attend. I could meet anytime on
Tuesday. If Tuesday is not good for you, we could try Thursday as
well. Please let me know your schedule. I also included graduate
students in this message. If we get a sufficient number of graduate students,
then our first lectures will be on basic concepts coming from "The
Book" (Algebra in the Stone-Cech Compactification, by Hindman and
Strauss).
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Wednesdays
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Graduate Student Seminar
Details TBA.
Open to all faculty and students.
Coordinator: Matthew Cavallo
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Fridays
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
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Friday,
March 30
Maria Gualdani, GWU
Title TBA.
Her specialties are Nonlinear
Partial Differential Equations, Kinetic Theory, Diffusion equations, Mean Field
Games, and Diffusion Equations.
4.10 to 5 pm, Room 213, ASB-B
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Friday, April 6 Yoshitaka Saiki, Hitosubashi
University, Japan. Title TBA Speaker’s specialty is dynamical systems
and numerical analysis. Friday April 13 The Scholarship
Day will be held on April 13, 2018. Kindly nominate by communicating to the
Scholarship Committee (Jill McGowan, Dan Williams and Crépin
Mahop) the names of promising students in your
present or past classes. These
scholarships are made available each year through endowment funds and/or
gifts from the following generous donors: the Elbert F. Cox Scholarship Fund,
the Solveig Espelie
Foundation, the George H. Butcher, Jr. Prize Fund, the Margaret Bullock
scholarship Fund, the James Donaldson Prize, the Gerald Chachere
Award for Excellence in Mathematics, and an anonymous donor fund. |
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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)
The spring
MAA Section meeting of the
MD-VA-DC section will be hosted by Washington and Lee University and
Virginia Military Institute on April 13
and 14. Talk submission deadline is Thursday, April 5. Students are welcome to submit a talk or a
poster. Registration closes on Thursday,
April 5.
To register, submit a talk, and read more about the invited speakers, please
visit the meeting website.
The Infinite Possibilities Conference (IPC)
A national conference that will be held on
April 14-15, 2018 at Howard University. IPC is designed to promote,
educate, encourage and support women of color interested in mathematics and
statistics, as a step towards addressing the underrepresentation of
African-Americans, Latinas, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders in these
fields.
There is a fantastic line up of speakers that
will mathematically inspire all who are in attendance! To register ASAP,
see: http://www.msri.org/web/msri/activities/infinite
2. Research Week 2018 Call for
Speakers competition
Howard
University will hold its third annual Research Week, April 9-13,
2018.
As
part of this year’s Research Week, the University will provide a platform on
Tuesday, April 10, from 2-3:30 p.m. for researchers and faculty to share
how they are pushing the boundaries of knowledge by creating new frontiers in
their fields. The speakers will give an engaging TED-style talk. We encourage
submissions from all disciplines so we may showcase the breadth and depth of
all innovative fields of study at the University.
The
goal of this activity is to inspire and to ultimately foster new collaborations
and investigations, advance knowledge and pose problems whose solutions are
beyond the scope of a single discipline. Please submit a proposal only if you are interested in a speaking
opportunity and have the availability to attend on Tuesday, April 10. from 2-3:30 p.m.
3. (Thanks to Jill McGowan) MAA mathfest
is a great event to attend especially for those attending or hosting summer
programs.
August 1-4, 2018 in Denver for the latest in
mathematical research and education.
4.
(Thanks to Louise Raphael) MAA Carriage
House lectures
Arthur
Benjamin will speak on card tricks on April 7 and
Deanna
Haunsperger will speak about
Math Horizons (magazine) on April 26.
The lectures are at 6:30 p.m,
in
the MAA Carriage House, 1781 Church
Street NW, Washington D.C, 20036
5. Georgetown Undergraduate Research Conference (URC), April
18
Student Planning Committee would like to
invite students from Georgetown University and from nearby universities to
present their health-related scientific research at this year’s URC. URC is a
day of student poster sessions and presentations from students and an esteemed
keynote speaker.
Georgetown University in the Healey Family
Student Center.
Details at https://goo.gl/HSjrFu
In previous newsletters:
NSF MPS Distinguished Lecture
Series (Ongoing).
Math Frontiers Webinar Series (Ongoing).
Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) Workshops, June
2018.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. Tim Myers spoke in the Morgan State University math colloquium
on
“Lebesgue Integration on a Banach
Space with a Schauder Basis”
on Thursday, March
15, 2018.
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (from
various sources)
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1. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport)
Summer REU at Howard for Howard math majors
Please
make the following announcement to your mathematics majors. I'm also seeking a
graduate student to help with the program. The graduate student will receive
$2,302. To apply, students simply have to send an email to Dennis Davenport and
a letter of recommendation from one faculty member in the Department of
Mathematics.
2. (Thanks to Louise Raphael) Harvey Mudd College
Summer REU
Area: data science. PIs: Lisette
de Pillis and Tanja Srebotnjak
Application form online at https://hmc.formstack.com/forms/reu_hmc
Applications are due April 11.
3. (Thanks to Talitha
Washington) HU MathWorks Student Ambassador
https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/opportunities/18278
The position is open to any Howard student legally
authorized to work in the US.
4. Uncommon Schools is
looking to identify dedicated, passionate teachers who can help us deliver on
our promise to prepare every scholar to graduate from college. They
have open teaching roles in Brooklyn right now, and have also started hiring
for next school year. So if you, or anyone you know, would make a
great addition to their team then reach out. You can
reach them via email at Don.Taylor@uncommonschool.org.
5. Halcyon Incubator Fall 2018 Fellowship
Application is open until
April 4, 2018, and they would appreciate your help to attract the best and
brightest social entrepreneurs. Benefits of the Halcyon Incubator Program
include $10,000 stipend, 0% equity, 5-months of rent-free housing, and access
to a Halcyon’s network of partners, mentors, leadership coaches, and potential
investors.
6. Research Opportunities at Federal
Institutions
The Higher
Education Research Experiences (HERE) program
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) invites
applications for internships in software development within ORNL’s Computer
Science and Mathematics Division!
As an intern, you will be part of ORNL’s Scientific
Software Initiative,
which provides scientific software development
expertise to the Laboratory.
APPLY HERE: https://www.zintellect.com/Posting/Details/3615
In previous newsletters:
Math to Industry Bootcamp
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