Math Dept 2019-2020
Newsletter 11
Monday, 17 February
2020
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Past
newsletters can now be reached via the department website.
[Click on “About” and
then “News and Events”].
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 3pm in
room 213.
Coordinator: Louis
Shapiro
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TUESDAYS
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Seminar On Topological Semigroups
10:10 AM to 11:00
AM, Annex III lab.
The seminar started
on Tuesday, January 28th.
Neil will continue talking
about some of his recent work.
Coordinator Dennis
Davenport
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Wednesdays
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Graduate Student
Seminar
12.10 to 1pm ASB-B 213
Coordinator: Matthew Cavallo
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Clifford Algebras
Seminar
4 pm, Annex III, 200
Speaker: Tim Myers
Coordinators: Dennis
Davenport and Tim Myers
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Math team/Math Club
meetings
Wednesdays at 5pm, room 213.
This week the math club
will meet. Last week we went over some problems related to a problem from the
latest Putnam exam.
Organizers: Jill McGowan (math club), Sankar Sitaraman (math team)
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Fridays
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Analysis and
Differential Equations On Separable Banach Spaces
(New Seminar Series)
Time TBA.
Organizers: Tepper
Gill, Dan Williams, Tim Myers.
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Geometry Seminar
Friday, 2 pm,
Departmental Lounge (Room 201)
Speaker: Todd Drumm
Abstract: In this
first series of seminars, Todd Drumm will go over a seminal
paper by Fields medalists Milnor and Thurston on the dynamics of maps on the
real line. No prerequisite is needed besides basic undergraduate mathematics
(calculus 1, linear algebra) and a lot of curiosity. The exposition will be
practical rather than formal, Mathematica code will help understanding what is
going on. Students are highly encouraged to participate.
Coordinator: Roberto
de Leo
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Mathematics Department
Colloquium
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Fridays 4.10 to
5 pm, Room 213, ASB-B
Friday, Feb 21.
Donald Outing, Lehigh University
My Mathematical
Journey: From Parabolic Equations to Diversity, Inclusion and Equity.
Previous weeks’
speakers:
Feb 14, Farshad Shirani, Georgetown University.
On a Mean Field Model
of Electroencephalographic Activity in the Neocortex.
Feb 7, David Banks, Duke U. & SAMSI.
Title: Adversarial Risk Analysis (David Blackwell
Memorial Lecture).
Jan 31, Larry
Washington, University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Odd Colossally
Abundant Numbers and the Robin-Lagarias Criterion for
the Riemann Hypothesis
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TALKS AND
WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
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1. (Thanks to Aziz Yakubu) Dimacs
Workshop Reconnect
2020: Optimization
June 21, 2020 - June
26, 2020, Chauncey Hotel & Conference Center
660 Rosedale Road,
Princeton, NJ 08541
Reconnect workshops
expose faculty teaching undergraduates to current applications of the
mathematical and computational sciences and provide an opportunity to learn
about recent research in related areas.
If interested
please go to http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/details?eID=1611
2. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport)
Graduate Student
Conference & Undergraduate Poster Session
March 28–29, 2020, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
For Graduate/Undergraduate students from any field
Keynote Speakers: Professor Theodora Bourni
& Professor Bruce Sagan
Registration form: https://forms.gle/q715oQogBVmQYXnH8
Details at: http://mgo.syr.edu/conferences/upcoming/
3. The Howard University Research Symposium will be held on April 16th and 17th,
2020 in the Interdisciplinary Research Building. The deadline for
Abstract Submissions is March 8, 2020, 11:59pm.
Please submit your abstracts
using the link below:
http://researchweek.howard.edu/abstracts
In
past newsletters:
2020 Summer
African Diaspora Joint Mathematics Workshop (ADJOINT), June 2020
SAMSI
undergraduate research workshop, Feb 24-25, 2020.
QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN)
Opportunities Spring 2020
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. Lou Shapiro
writes:
The paper "A Bijection Between
the Triangulations of Convex Polygons and Ordered Trees" has just appeared
in the electronic journal, Integer. The authors are Dennis Davenport, Lou Shapiro, and Leon Woodson.
"Palindromes and Pseudo-involution
Multiplication" (Lou Shapiro with
Tian-Xiao He) has been accepted for publication in Linear Algebra and its
Applications.
2. Aziz Yakubu is a Black History Month
honoree at the “Mathematically Gifted and Black” website:
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/abdul-aziz-yakubu/
3. Talitha Washington is excited about her
recent appointment as a program director in the National
Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator (C-Accel), a
program within NSF to accelerate use-inspired convergence research in areas of
national importance via partnerships between academic and non-academic
stakeholders.
Howard’s press
release: https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/static/11761/howard-university-s-talitha-washington-selected-serve-national-science
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SCHOLARSHIP AND
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various
sources)
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1. (Thanks to Mohammad Mahmood)
U.S. DHS
Opportunities for Student Workforce to Experience Research
The U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate Office
of University Programs sponsors the Professional Opportunities
for Student Workforce to Experience Research (HS-POWER) Program for
undergraduate and graduate students. HS-POWER is open to students majoring in a
broad spectrum of homeland security related science, technology, engineering
and mathematics (STEM) disciplines as well as DHS
mission-relevant research areas.
TO APPLY: Visit- https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/DHS-POWER-2020 to
learn more and complete the application.
2. (Thanks to Louise Raphael)
Preparation for
Industrial Careers in Mathematics (PIC Math).
This program increases awareness
among math faculty and undergraduates about career options, provides research
experience working on real problems from business, industry, and government,
and prepares students for industrial careers.
https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/professional-development/pic-math
3. (Thanks to Talitha Washington) QEM/NSF Summer Internship
The ten-week, Washington, DC-based summer
internship opportunity (May 26 – July 31, 2020) is made possible through a
grant to the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network from the National
Science Foundation (NSF). The internship will provide round-trip airfare,
assistance with ground and local transportation costs, shared summer housing in
Washington, DC and a $4,000 (undergraduate) and $5,000 (graduate) taxable
stipend, payable in three installments during the summer.
During the internship, students will have
an opportunity to be mentored by program officers at
NSF that are involved in making science policy and in
implementing
national programs focused on STEM. The experience is
designed to increase the students’ understanding of
how science policy is made as well as to further develop
their potential for becoming leaders and proponents
of increased participation in STEM by students from
underrepresented minority groups.
Application form: https://form.jotform.com/200085698440154
Application
Deadline – Priority deadline Friday, February 21, 2020
Application
Deadline – Final deadline Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Decision
Notification – Friday, March 27, 2020
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INTERESTING ARTICLES
AND WEBSITES
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1. (Thanks to Louise Raphael) SIAM celebrates Black History Month
A selection
of the many African American heroes in Mathematics:
https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/celebrating-black-history-month