Math Dept 2018-2019 Newsletter 7
Monday, 28 January 2019
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Welcome back everyone. Happy New Year!
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MEETINGS AND
SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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Mondays
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Combinatorics Seminar
Those interested should
get in touch with Lou Shapiro or Alex Burstein.
Coordinator: Louis Shapiro
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Geometry
& Topology Seminar
The last lecture was on Monday, November 19, by Joseph
Yeager on
“Eilenberg-Maclane spaces and generalized cohomology
theories.”
Time: Mondays, 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 computer lab at 2:00
pm.
Topic: Algebra on the Stone-Cech"
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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Wednesdays
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Graduate
Student Seminar
Annex
III Computer Lab,
12-1pm
on every other Wednesday.
Coordinator: Matthew Cavallo
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Math
team/Math Club meetings
Wednesdays at 5pm, room 213.
Wednesday, Jan 30 will be math team meeting,
discussing competition level problems.
The meetings are meant to help in preparing students
for math competitions, inspiring videos about math, talks about careers.
Please tell your students.
Organizers: Jill McGowan (math club), Lou Shapiro
(math team)
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Fridays
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Analysis and
Differential Equations On Separable Banach Spaces (New
Seminar Series)
3 TO 4 PM, ROOM 213, ASB-B.
About the series: This series will discuss a new
constructive approach to analysis on separable Banach spaces.
The key idea is to first show that any separable
Banach space can be continuously embedded in a separable Hilbert space.
Organizers: Tepper Gill, Dan Williams, Tim Myers.
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Mathematics
Department Colloquium
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Fridays 4.10 to 5 pm, Room 213, ASB-B
Friday, Feb 1.
Edward Ott, Physics Department, University of Maryland,
College Park.
“Machine Learning Analysis of Chaos and Vice
Versa.”
Last lecture was on Friday, January 25.
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Tepper Gill of Howard University’s Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science spoke about “Isotopes in Mathematics.” |
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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.
Howard University Annual Research Week April 8-12, 2019.
We encourage students, faculty, and research
staff to submit an abstract for the research symposium at http://reesearchweek.howard.edu/. Abstract submission has been implemented as of January 2, 2019.
Abstracts for poster or oral presentations must be submitted by 11:59 p.m.
on Sunday, March 3, 2019.
Cryptography
Reconnect will expose faculty teaching undergraduates to current applications
of mathematical and computational sciences and provide an opportunity for
government or industry professionals to learn about recent research in related
areas. The topic will be presented over the course of 3.5 days in a series of
lectures and activities; participants will be involved in research activities
that they and their students can continue with after the workshop.
The
workshop will provide background in basic cryptographic techniques from ciphers
to codes, the basics of RSA, stegonography, and
quantum cryptography. It will address the current status of the above
referenced questions.
Deadline
for Applications is April 2, 2019 or until all slots are filled. A link to the online application will be available by Feb 1, 2019
under the Call for Participation on the workshop webpage http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/details?eID=1093.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1.
Henok Mawi gave the NAM
Claytor-Woodard
lecture at the Joint Mathematics Meetings on Mathematical Problems in
geometrical Optics. Photo
taken after the talk, with current and former colleagues who attended the talk.
2.
Katie Gurski writes:
Howard
University is inviting all Washington Baltimore-Hampton Roads Louis Stokes
Alliance for Minority Participation participants to apply to the HU Bridge to Doctorate Program. This
is a fabulous opportunity for students from Howard University, Morgan State
University, Bowie State University, the University of the District of Columbia,
Hampton University, Norfolk State University, and Virginia State University to
receive a generous NSF sponsored fellowship ($32,000 yearly stipend) to pursue
a doctorate at Howard University.
The Mathematics Department at Howard University has 4 HU Bridge to
Doctorate Fellowships available starting the Fall of 2019. Please
encourage all LSAMP undergraduate participants (past and present) to
apply. Other STEM areas have these fellowships as well. Howard
University has additional scholarship opportunities for well qualified students
who have not participated in LSAMP as well.
Contact
Katharine Gurski, Director of Graduate Studies in the Mathematics Department,
at kgurski@howard.edu for
more information.
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SCHOLARSHIP
AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (from various sources)
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1.
(Thanks to Muhammad Mahmood)
Lockheed Martin scholarship program:
Beginning in 2019, 200 scholarships of $10,000 per student –
renewable each year. The program will continue to add up to 200 new recipients
each year, and will be open to individuals studying
engineering or computer science that demonstrate financial need and come from
underrepresented or underserved communities.
The scholarship program doesn’t end with a check. Mentoring
opportunities will be a key component of the program, and recipients will also
be eligible for Lockheed Martin internship opportunities following their freshman
year in college.
Click here for more information.
2. (Thanks to Tristan Hubsch, Physics)
Mathematician - NSF Program
Director position
The National Science Foundation is
seeking qualified candidate for a Mathematician (Program Director) position
within the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS), Directorate for
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), in Alexandria, VA.
For more information and instructions on how to apply, please see the vacancy announcement
(DMS-2019-0002) for this position.
3. Goucher Prison
Education Partnership (GPEP)
As a division of Goucher College, GPEP offers college
courses to students incarcerated in two prisons in Jessup, MD. In
addition to these courses and recognizing the fact that many of our students
have not had consistent access to quality education, GPEP also offers college
preparatory courses in mathematics and writing. GPEP frequently has both
volunteer and paid opportunities available. This spring, we have the
opportunity to offer a section of Goucher’s PreCalculus
course and are thus currently looking for candidates with advanced degrees and
demonstrated experience leading college courses to apply. To apply,
prospective faculty should send a current CV or resume, as well as a list of
courses for which they have been the lead instructor (including school names
and dates). We also have some openings for volunteer mathematics
tutors. Our tutoring corps is comprised of undergraduate students to
adult professionals, who each have expertise in mathematics and tutoring
pedagogy. If you aren’t able to teach or tutor this spring but want to
stay in touch so you can hear about future opportunities, please send an email
with your name and mailing address to Jennifer Munt,
Assistant Director for College Operation at gpep.contacts@goucher.edu
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INTERESTING
ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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1. Michael Atiyah (1929-1919)
From the AMS:
“Sir
Michael Francis Atiyah, a renowned
mathematician who received the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004,
which he shared with Isadore M. Singer, has died at the age of 89. He did a
great deal of significant work, including creating topological K-theory with
Friedrich Hirzebruch and formulating the Atiyah-Singer index theorem with Singer.”
