Math Dept 2021-2022 Newsletter 10
Monday, 21 February 2022
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.
MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
TUESDAYS
Clifford Algebra Seminar
Meeting at 3pm on Tuesdays.
Contact coordinators for zoom link
Coordinators Dennis Davenport and Tim Myers
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Combinatorics Seminar
Meeting at 3pm on Tuesdays.
Contact coordinator Lou Shapiro for zoom link
WEDNESDAYS
Applied Math Reading Seminar
Wednesdays online from 12 to 1pm.
Seminar will resume soon.
Students will get to practice studying papers and working on research problems. This semester the topic is Machine Learning. Session 2 to N will be recorded.
Please write the coordinator for original handouts or for the recording link.
Contact coordinator for zoom link as well.
Coordinator: Katie Gurski
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Math team/Math Club meetings
Organizers: Jill McGowan (math club), Lou Shapiro (math team)
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Number Theory Seminar
Select Wednesdays, 4-5pm, on zoom
(If departmental meeting is scheduled for that time, seminar will be moved to following Wednesday).
Seminar will resume on wednesday, 23 Feb.
Sankar Sitaraman will be continuing from fall. We will start with the landmark paper by Gupta and Murty.
Topic: Artin’s Primitive Roots Conjecture
Coordinator: Sankar Sitaraman
THURSDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
The seminar will include applications to Ramsey theory.
Neil Hindman has been talking about “Sums and products in N and piecewise syndetic sets.”
10-11 am on zoom on Thursdays.
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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Graduate Student Seminar
TBA
Coordinator: Noel Bourne
FRIDAYS
Mathematics Department Colloquium
Fridays, 4.10 to 5pm.
Friday, 2/25/2022
Lindsey-Kay Lauderdale, Towson University.
Title: TBA.
On 2/18 Michael Barnsley of the Australian National University talked about Overlapping Fractal Tilings.
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) Roots of Unity workshop at Institute for Mathematics and its applications.
June 12-16, 2022
Designed to support women, especially women of color, who have completed 1-3 years of graduate school and are considering research in algebra, combinatorics, geometry, topology or number theory.
Deadline Feb 28.
2. (Thanks to Talitha Washington) W. E. B. Du Bois Data Science Symposium
Feb 25, 2022 11.30 am to 5.15 pm.
Registration and more information.
3. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) Illinois Tech College of Computing
Free online talk and panel discussion on “What is Data Science, and Why is it important”
Registration and more information.
4. (Thanks to Moussa Doumbia) Free Virtual Data Science training program
Presented by Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI).
5. I-Corps training program
I-Corps is a National Science Foundation program designed to foster, grow and nurture innovation ecosystems regionally and nationally. Morgan State Cohort is having a training workshop starting Feb 23.
6. Doctoral Career Pathways Event
The Graduate School and the Center for Career and Professional Success is organizing a conference on April 1, 2022.
If you know of a doctoral alum who could be a panelist please nominate them using this form.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Aissa Dearing-Benton, a senior history and environmental sciences major and geography minor, has been awarded the prestigious Marshall scholarship to pursue graduate studies in UK. (She is currently in my Patterns in (Environmental) Math class – Ed).
In previous newsletters:
Deadlines approaching for summer internships
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. (Thanks to Mohammad Mahmood)
Wiley
Stay the Course Grant
Provides $500 Visa gift card. Nominate needy students by March 31 at this website.
CMS summer undergrad research program
The US CMS Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program seeks to address the under-representation of women and minoritized students in STEM fields, in particular Physics. It is a 10-week paid internship program, which offers female and minority undergraduate students an opportunity to perform a project under the mentorship of scientists working at the frontier of Physics at one of the 50+ institutions in the United States.
More information and application
2. DOE Wind Technologies Office Research Fellowship.
Application and more information.
In past newsletters
Teach with Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
Boston University Summer Institute in Biostatistics and Data Science (BU SIBS)
Blackwell Summer Scholars Program at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Other summer research opportunities
IBM-HBCU Quantum Center call for research projects
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. Love and Math
If by any chance you haven't read it already, I highly recommend “Love and Math” by Russian-born Harvard and UC Berkeley mathematician Edward Frenkel. It is a very enjoyable and inspiring book that reads like a novel but gives a very insightful and easy to read account of the Langlands program. This wide-ranging program connects algebraic number theory with harmonic analysis, algebraic geometry and quantum physics. It needs tools from representation theory, p-adic analysis, and Lie algebras among others. Along the way the author describes the excitement he found in mathematical research and shares his life story of escaping the anti-semitism and totalitarianism of communist Russia.