Math Dept 2021-2022 Newsletter 11
Monday, 7 March 2022
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[Click on “About” and then “News and Events”].
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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.
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, Yeona Kang
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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 continue on wednesday, 16 March.
Sankar Sitaraman is continuing from fall. We started 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, 3/18/2022
Jeffrey Case, Pennsylvania State University.
Title: TBA.
On 2/25 Lindsey-Kay Lauderdale of Towson University talked about the Wiener Index of a Graph.
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. 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. Moussa Doumbia and Dr. John Kwagyan of the College of Medicine have received a grant for the Free Virtual Data Science training program for Howard students and others.
Presented by Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI).
2. Katie Gurski writes: “We are starting an Applied math Journal Club for Students and Professors. We'll have people to sign up to present a paper and everyone will join the discussion...We plan to be virtual this Spring semester and for the summer.”
3. Howard University Research Month
April 1 to 29 has been designated as research month. To present at the research symposium or to volunteer please go to http://researchmonth.howard.edu
Deadline March 15, 2022.
4. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) Howard Math Dept REU
Department of Mathematics was awarded a grant to hold an REU on campus this summer. This is a small program we only need four students. If you know any students who may qualify, please share the below link with them and encourage them to apply. Website: hureu.org
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) CMU data analytics summer workshop
DASIE, in partnership with Dow and Microsoft, addresses this skills gap by bringing together students from outside of Carnegie Mellon University to start building a pipeline of future science leaders with advanced data skills and to bring awareness of opportunities that exist at CMU, the partner organizations and the industry as a whole.
This program is fully funded. More information.
2.
(Thanks to Joon Ha) NIH/NIDDK
Summer of data program
6 week program from June 13 to July 22 for students doing medical research wanting to learn data management.
More information: https://dknet.org/about/Summer-Internship
3. Fully funded 4-year Ph. D position in Number Theory
The Department of Mathematics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam welcomes applications for a fully-funded, 4-year PhD position in Number Theory and Formalization, supervised by Sander Dahmen. The (preferred) starting date is 1 September or earlier. The application deadline is 29 March.
4. NIH/NIAID Emerging Leaders in Data Science Fellowship
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is the largest funder of infectious and immune-mediated disease research and globally plays a major role in responding to disease outbreaks and pandemics. This fellowship is for graduate students.
More information and application
In past newsletters
Teach with Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
Blackwell Summer Scholars Program at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Other summer programs
Wiley Stay the Course Grant
DOE Wind Technologies Office Research Fellowship
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. Proof of the Logarithmically averaged Chowla Conjecture
Article from Quanta Magazine about the proof of this important conjecture concerning behavior of prime numbers by Maksym Radziwill and Harald Helfgott.
2. (Recommended by Roberto De Leo) The sorry state of teaching ODEs
3. (Recommended by Louise Raphael) Takeaways from the latest UN climate report