Math Dept 2018-2019 Newsletter 11

Monday, 1 April 2019

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Past newsletters can now be reached via the department website.

[Click on ÒDepartmental NewslettersÓ]. 

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

 

Mondays at 3:10 in ASB-B room 203.

 

Coordinator: Louis Shapiro

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Geometry & Topology Seminar 

 

Monday, April 1 will be the next meeting day.

 

Xinting Wang is talking about a

ÒGourmet's Guide To Non-Commutative Algebraic Geometry.Ó

 

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 (room 210) at 11:00 am. 

Topic: ÒAlgebra on the Stone-Cech Compactification"

 

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, April 3 will be math team meeting.

 

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, April 5.

 

Sook kyung Lim, University of Cincinnati

In silico flagellated micro-swimmers in a viscous fluid.

 

Last lecture was on Friday, March 29.

Denis Blackmore, of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, gave a talk on

"Analysis of Walking Droplet Dynamics: Amazing Complexity

 

 

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 Fluid dynamics seminar

 Seminar takes place after colloquium

and does not take place if there is no colloquium.

Abstract:

ÒFluid Dynamics SeminarÓ is also known as the departmental happy hour.

 

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TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT 

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1. (thanks to Henok Mawi)  

Georgetown Undergraduate Research Conference (URC)

 

Student Planning Committee invites students from Georgetown University

 and fellow research institutions to present their health-related scientific

 research at this yearÕs URC to be held on April 16th, 2019

at Georgetown University in the Healey Family Student Center.

 

The application and additional information for this yearÕs conference

Abstract and Application submission deadline: March 19th  11:59pm

Poster submission deadline: April 5th  11:59pm

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns,

please email nhsurc@georgetown.edu.

 

2. (thanks to Talitha Washington) National Math Festival 

May 4, Saturday, Washington DC convention center

Includes Julia Robinson math festival featuring interesting talks on exciting

subjects by Lillian Pierce of Duke

(Math, Music. History: 300 Years in 30 Minutes)

and Annie Roberts of University of Massachusetts, Amherst

(Math and your Love Life).

 

 www.nationalmathfestival.org

 

3. (thanks to Aziz Yakubu)

25th Industrial Mathematical & Statistical Modeling (IMSM) Workshop

for Graduate Students will take place at North Carolina State University in

Raleigh, NC, between July 14-24, 2019.  The workshop is sponsored by the

Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) along with

the Center for Research in Scientific Computation (CRSC),

and the Dept. of Mathematics at North Carolina State University. 

 

The official application deadline is April 15, 2019,

but full consideration will be given to all applications received

prior to April 30, 2019. 

Further Information is available at http://www.samsi.info/imsm-19
and questions can be directed to grad@samsi.info

 

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In previous newsletters:

 

Howard University Annual Research Week April 8-12, 2019.

 

Reconnect Workshop 2019 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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1.   Talitha Washington was featured in the

NSF ÒWomenÕs History MakersÓ video series.  

 

Also her article ÒBehind every successful woman, there are a few good menÓ

 appeared in the February issue of the Notices of the AMS.

 

In previous newsletters:

                                                                                                          

 HU Bridge to Doctorate Program.  

Contact Katharine Gurski

 

 

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 SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

(from various sources)

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1. Wisconsin Actuarial Certificate Proram

 

 The 15 credit, on-campus Actuarial Science certificate is designed to

help meet the growing demand for actuaries.

It also offers industry connections, an actuary career fair,

and an actuarial club students may join. 

If you have any questions or would like to coordinate an online webinar

or in-person campus visit, please reach out and contact

Gordon Enderle, at genderle@wisc.edu 

 

     In previous newsletters:

 

           PRiME (Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience) summer 2019

 

DOE Scholarship Programs

 

          

 

 

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INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES

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1. (thanks to Louise Raphael) New York Times article on graphs

 

A very nice collection of graphs related to climate change and

how it engages students and what it teaches them about graphs.

 

In previous newsletters:

Joint meetings invited talks website, including Edray GoinsÕ talk on

NAM and history of African-American mathematicians