Math Dept 2017-2018
Newsletter 14
Monday, 23 April 2018
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Past newsletters can now be reached via the department website.
[Click on “Read the Newsletter” 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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This will be the last newsletter for 2017-2018.
Hope everyone has a good last two weeks of the semester
and a great summer –Ed
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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, April 23.
(Last lecture of the semester).
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
Tuesdays, in the Annex III mathematics lab at 10:00 am.
On
April 17th Neil Hindman spoke on “Algebraically Defined Subsets of beta S
that are not Borel"
Coordinator
Dennis
Davenport
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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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Fridays 4.10 to 5
pm, Room 213, ASB-B
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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 very much
appreciated.
The staff is currently underfunded for this.
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TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
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1. (Thanks
to Aziz Yakubu) NSF_CBMS
Conference at Howard University
May 21-25, 2018 in the Interdisciplinary Research Building on
Georgia Avenue.
The conference starts with an introductory lecture om biology. No biology background
is assumed.
The second lecture will be on how to build models. Most of
the models will be PDE models.
The conference will feature 9 invited speakers, and 3 panel
discussions (please see attachment).
Registration is free and all are invited to the conference.
You can register online at the following conference website: http://humathbio.weebly.com/nsf-cbms-conference.html
2. (Thanks to Henok Mawi) Nonlinear
Phenomena Workshop, GWU
George
Washington University Chapter of SIAM is excited to invite you and
students at Howard University to attend the Nonlinear Phenomena Workshop in
Washington, DC on April 24, 2018.
This workshop is organized by Professor Svetlana Roudenko, Professor Maria Gualdani
and also SIAM student chapter at GWU. If interested contact them at gualdani@gwu.edu or roudenko@gwu.edu.
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
Deanna Haunsperger will speak about Math Horizons
(magazine) on April 26.
The lecture is at 6:30 p.m,
MAA Carriage House, 1781 Church Street NW, Washington
D.C, 20036
5. (Thanks to Talitha
Washington) Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics
and Statistics (SUMS) Conference
SUMS
2018 happens on Saturday, October 13th 2018 at James Madison University.
Registration
opens in August, and will be free and open to all in our mathematical
community.
That
includes students (undergrads, pre- and post-grads), faculty, and friends.
Invited
talks:
opening
address: Dr. Alissa Crans of
Loyola Marymount University
closing
address: Dr.
Kimberly Sellers of Georgetown University
Research
Students: Give your first (or tenth!) research talk and/or poster!
Undergrads:
Watch as your peers race to present months of their work in just 15 short
(well, 12 with time for questions) minutes!
CONFERENCE
INFORMATION:
http://www.jmu.edu/mathstat/sums/
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. Talitha
Washington writes that she had the honor to represent
Black Math, Activism, & HowardU at the AAAS’s
Rally for March for Science.
A video of her march is available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R_-GYb1nSY&feature=youtu.be&t=19m7s
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (from various
sources)
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1.
(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.
In previous newsletters:
Summer REU at Howard for Howard math majors
(contact Dennis Davenport)
Uncommon
Schools
Math to Industry Bootcamp
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INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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I just finished reading this book and
recommend it highly for anyone interested in learning about our cosmos. It is
an enjoyable book to read for all and I think students would enjoy it as well. While
it is written as a popular book with only vague details about the actual
techniques, it still provided a lot of insight into how this science works. I
was most struck by how powerful mathematics is in helping us understand the
workings of the universe, starting with the basic particles of matter all the
way to the entire universe. Much mathematics was developed by or for this
purpose and in turn mathematics has helped scientists make giant leaps, Newton
and Einstein being just two of the most prominent.