Math Dept 2020-2021 Newsletter 13
Monday, 19 April 2021
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS
IN THE DEPARTMENT
Mondays
Combinatorics Seminar
TBA
Coordinator: Louis
Shapiro
WEDNESDAYS
Math team/Math Club
meetings
Please contact organizers for zoom link.
Organizers: Jill McGowan (math club), Lou Shapiro (math team)
Thursdays
Seminar on
Topological Semigroups
To start, Dr. Justin Moore
of Cornell will talk about some of his recent work.
Time Thursdays at
2pm. Seminar will meet
using Zoom. Please contact coordinator for a link.
Coordinator Dennis
Davenport
Graduate Student
Seminar
Meeting from 4 to 5pm
on Thursdays. Contact coordinator for link.
Coordinator: Noel
Bourne
Fridays
Mathematics
Department Colloquium
This semester our
Colloquium talks are shared between us and Cornell's Colloquium.
Friday, April 23
Richard Darling, NSA
Topic:
Comparison-based Approach to Unsupervised Learning.
On Friday, April 16,
Fern Hunt of NIST talked about "Finding Effective Spreaders for Fast
Communication in Small and Large Networks.”
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1. NAM Faculty
Conference on Research and Teaching Excellence (FCRTE) on May 22, 2021. This one-day virtual conference, geared
towards faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs),
will include the Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid Lecture, contributed talks
from faculty, and a panel discussion.
The 2021 Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid Lecture will be
given by Dr. Rhonda Fitzgerald, Norfolk
State University. Her talk is titled, “From
Riding the Bench to Leading the Team. Rewriting the Instructional Playbook for
Pre-Calculus using the Flipped Model."
There is a call for Presenters to submit
abstracts for contributed talks. Each talk will be 15 minutes in length (with 5
minutes for questions). Please complete the abstract
submission form by Saturday May 1, 2021
at 11:59pm EST if you are interested in giving a talk at the FCRTE.
For more information about NAM and the history of the
Faculty Conference on Research and Teaching Excellence, visit https://www.nam-math.org/fcrte.html.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Dr.
Naiomi Cameron, Vice President and Program Committee Chair, at vice-president@nam-math.org
2. (Thanks to Aziz
Yakubu) UPSTAT 2021 Conference Data analytics competition (online)
This year’s data analytics competition features the social
justice problem of disparity in policing. This is a challenging issue and the
corresponding statistical analysis is fascinating and interestingly broad.
Details at http://upstats.org
Competitors from high school level all the way up to the
doctoral level are allowed vie for
3. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) Fermilab two-part quantum
webinar series
Part 1 (April 16th, 3-4pm CT): An Overview of Fermilab and
its Quantum Research.
Part 2 (April 23rd, 3-4pm CT): Research Opportunities for
Interns, Fellows, and Visiting Faculty.
In addition to quantum science and technology, Fermilab
offers many other exciting research opportunities. Here are just a few:
Dark matter and dark energy, Accelerator technology for
particle accelerators,
Superconducting magnets and RF, Particle physics, High
intensity proton beams, Cryogenic applications and many others.
In previous newsletters:
MAA Mathfest Aug 4-7, 2021, online
The Park City Math Insititute
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Undergraduate
Mathematics Conference (online) April 23-24, 2021.
Tenth annual Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra
Research Symposium (USTARS), April 29-30, 2021
QEM/NSF Talent Development and Innovation Sciences (TDIS) Summer Internship
David Blackwell summer research institute (Illinois;
UCLA/Berkeley)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Scholarship day Awardees (Thanks to Jill McGowan)
The department
celebrated these awardees for their outstanding performance:
1)
James
Donaldson award ($2000 prize, $1000 Donaldson + $1000 Solveig-Espelie): Naomi
Rankin, junior, presented by Katie Gurski.
2)
George
Butcher prize ($2000 prize, $1000 from Butcher + $1000 Solveig-Espelie):
Sudarshan Bashyal, senior, presented by Dan Williams.
3)
Gerald
Chachere prize ($1000 prize): Shakuan Frankson, graduate student, presented by
Dennis Davenport.
4)
Solveig-Espelie
awards:
i)
($1500)
Leshauna Hartman, senior, presented by Dan Williams.
ii)
($1000): Kenthia Roberts, sophomore, presented by
Sankar Sitaraman.
iii) ($1250 each): Sabrina Francis, senior, presented by Dan
Williams; Keith-Jordan Wilkinson, senior, presented by Dan Williams; Paras
Pokharel, senior, presented by Roberto De Leo.
5)
Cox
prizes ($2000 each: $500 from Cox, 1500
from Solveig-Espelie):
i) Jalynn Borders,
junior, presented by Tim Myers
ii) Sabin Gaire,
senior, presented by Crepin Mahop
iii) Christina McBean, senior, presented by Roberto De Leo
iv) Malik Woullard, junior, presented by Paul Bezandry
2. Saud
Aldosary successfully defended his Ph. D thesis of the title
“Non-Hyperbolic Points of 2-D Discrete (DE) Homogeneous Polynomial Systems” on
April 8, 2021. His advisor was Faina Berezovskaya.
3. Pi Mu
Epsilon society membership for graduate students (thanks to Jill McGowan):
If you are interested in joining the math honor society Pi Mu Epsilon, the
requirements are these: you have a 3.0 GPA from your undergraduate degree and
in your math courses as an undergraduate, as well as in your last year as an
undergraduate. If you meet these requirements and would like to join, please
let me know. I need your student ID and your address.
SCHOLARSHIP AND
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various
sources)
1. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Minority
Serving Institutions Internship Program (MSIIP)
Application deadline
Monday, May 3, 2021, 8:00 am EST
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is
sponsoring a new internship program for the 2021 summer. The NNSA Minority
Serving Institutions (MSI) Internship Program aims to engage undergraduate and
graduate students in world class research and operations opportunities within
the NNSA enterprise and to increase the students’ awareness of federal career
opportunities. This program is open to students enrolled in a Historically
Black College or University (HBCU), Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), or
Tribal College or University (TCU). Students will intern at one of the national
laboratories.
Applications and supporting materials must be submitted at
https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/2021-NNSA-MSIIP
2. Johns Hopkins Center
for Talented Youth (CTY). CTY is a nonprofit dedicated to identifying and
developing the talents of academically advanced K-12 students around the world.
We provide today’s brightest students with fun, challenging courses; a
community of engaged learners; and a strong foundation for future success in
college and their careers.
We are actively hiring part-time (casual; similar to adjunct), 100% telework
roles to support our distance learning program, CTY L.I.V.E, which
begins a new session in June 2021. We are currently seeking math
instructors to teach across multiple subject areas. We also have some very
niche instructor roles, where we are seeking individuals with experience in any
of the following areas: AP, college math, computer science, disease modeling,
game design and robotics. More information and
application materials.
In previous newsletters:
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
Ray Diversity Fellowships
MAA funding opportunities
Summer Lab Internships at DHS
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. (Thanks to Dennis
Davenport) Course Hero, meet Course Villain.
Embry-Riddle researchers
create a search engine to help professors identify whether course content has
been “compromised” on Course Hero, producing ripe conditions for student
cheating.