Math Dept 2017-2018 Newsletter 1
Monday, 11
September 2017
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Past newsletters can now be reached via the department website.
[Click on ÒRead the NewsletterÓ in the
bottom].
Welcome back! Hope all had a great summer!
Please let me know of your achievements, such as publications, grants,
awards, etc.,
Newsletter is sent out when there is
something new.
Please send entries by the end of the
workweek --Ed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE
DEPARTMENT
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mondays
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Geometry &
Topology Seminar
Monday September 12
Henok Mawi
Optimal Control of the Infinity Laplacian
Problem
Time: 3:10PM-4:00PM
Place: ASB-B 213.
Coordinator: Stanley M.
Einstein-Matthews
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tuesdays
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Topological Semigroups and Ramsey Theory Seminar
The Seminar on Topological Semigroups and Ramsey Theory will meet
tuesdays from 10:10--11:00
(tentatively).
Dennis
Davenport speaking on "Algebra in the Stone-Cech
Compactification" by Hindman-Strauss.
Please contact
Dennis Davenport for more information.
Coordinator: Dennis Davenport
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesdays
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Graduate Student Seminar
TBA
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fridays
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Analysis, PDE and Applied Math Seminar.
Details TBA
Co-ordinator:
Henok Mawi
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mathematics
Department Colloquium
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Friday, September 16
James Isenberg, U. of Oregon
Black Holes, the Big Bang, and the Cosmic Censor
4.10 to 5 pm, ASB-B 213
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE
DEPARTMENT
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. (thanks to Talitha Washington)
National
Technical Association Conference
September 20-22 at Morgan State University.
See the attached flyer or http://www.ntaonline.org/2017conference.html.
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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ANNOUNCEMENTS
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Housing needed for Graduate Student
From Francois Ramaroson: One of our new female graduate students is still
looking for housing. Anyone who can help
please contact me.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. TMCF Apple HBCU Scholars Program and
Cleveland Clinic Information Session
Cleveland
clinic will have a table in Blackburn from 12 to 2pm and
An informational sessions in the Louise
Stokes library room 138 from 4.30 to 5.30pm
On Monday, Sep 11.
Apple (the company
that makes iphones) HBCU Scholars Program
application is open until September 17.
More information at http://tmcf.org/apply-to-apple/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ÒTwo Australian
mathematicians assert that an ancient clay tablet was a tool for working out
trigonometry problems,
possibly adding to the
many techniques that Babylonian mathematicians had mastered.Ó