Math Dept 2018-2019
Newsletter 5
Monday, 12 November 2018
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Past newsletters can now be reached via the department
website.
[Click on ÒRead the NewsletterÓ 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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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
Monday, November 19.
Joseph Yeager will talk on
ÒEilenberg-Maclane spaces and generalized cohomology theories . Ó
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 computer lab at 2:00
pm.
Topic: ÒAlgebra on the Stone-Cech"
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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Math
team/Math Club meetings
Wednesdays at 5pm
Preparing students for math competitions, inspiring
videos about math, talks about careers.
Please tell your students.
This Wednesday it will be the Math Team meeting.
Organisers: 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, November 19.
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Tadele Mengesha, University of TN,
Knoxville. The analysis of a nonlocal model in mechanics. |
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Recent speakers:
Nov 9: Michael Rapoport,
University of MD and University of Bonn.
Nov 2: Michelle Manes, University of HI and NSF
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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. Joint
Mathematical Meetings, Baltimore, January 16-19
Full program can be
found here.
Our friend Edray Goins
(now at Pomona College; until recently at Purdue)
will give an invited talk titled A Dream Deferred: 50 Years
of Blacks in Mathematics
on Thursday, Jan 19 at 9am.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. Fern Hunt, a former
colleague at Howard, has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society..
From AMS website: ÒFor
outstanding applications of mathematics to science and technology, exceptional
service to the US government, and for outreach and mentoring.Ó
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SCHOLARSHIP
AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (from various sources)
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1. (Thanks to Muhammad Mahmood)
a)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
2019 Summer Research Team
Program for Minority Serving Institutions
10-week research experiences are offered at university-based DHS Centers of Excellence (DHS Centers).
Areas of research: Engineering, computer science, mathematics,
physics, chemistry,
biological
/ life sciences, environmental science, emergency and incident management,
social
sciences, and more.
Additional
information regarding DHS Areas of
Research may be found on the program
website.
U.S.
citizenship required
Previous
program participants may apply.
Application deadline: December 21, 2018 11:59 pm
EST.
How to Apply: Applications and supporting materials must be
submitted at
https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/DHS-SRTMSI-2019-Faculty
Detailed information about the program can be found
at:
http://www.orau.gov/dhseducation/faculty/index.html
b) Department
of Energy Fellowships
Deadline : 12/17/2018, 5 PM EST
The DOE Scholars Program is
designed to attract talented undergraduate and graduate students, and
recent graduates to opportunities that are carefully designed to help
prepare and motivate participants toward the full range of entry and
mid-level research, technical and professional positions within U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and organizations
that support the DOE mission.
Details and application at:
https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/DOE-Scholars-2019
General information about DOE fellowships:
https://www.energy.gov/scholarships-and-fellowships
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INTERESTING
ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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1. Are ranks of
elliptic curves unbounded?
Quanta
magazine article about the probabilistic model developed by Jennifer Park,
Bjorn Poonen and Melanie Matchett-Wood
that predicts that the ranks are bounded. The model seems to agree with
theoretical predictions
And numerical data to a high degree but is it proof?