Math Dept 2022-2023 Newsletter 10
Monday, 20 February 2023
Past newsletters can now be reached via the department website.
[Click on “About” and then “News and Events”].
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Please send entries by the end of the workweek–Ed.
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
TUESDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
The seminar will include applications to Ramsey theory.
Neil Hindman will talk next on “Combinatorially rich sets in arbitrary semigroups.”
Time 11 am.
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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Statistics Seminar
Tuesdays 2pm, on zoom.
Contact coordinator Saraleesan Nadarajah for zoom link.
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Combinatorics Seminar
TBA
Contact coordinator Lou Shapiro for zoom link.
WEDNESDAYS
Graduate Student Seminar
1pm, wednesday.
Contact Shakuan Frankson for more information.
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Applied Math Reading Seminar
TBA
Students will get to practice studying papers and working on research problems.
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
Organizer: Jill McGowan
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FRIDAYS
Mathematics Department Colloquium
Fridays, 4.10 to 5pm.
Friday, 24 February
William Stein, Sage Math Inc.
Title : Doing Math with CoCalc.
On friday, Feb 17, Justin Moore of Cornell University talked about “A more rational irrational rotation.”
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. Morgan State Math Colloquium
Dr. Edinah Koffi Gnang
Bounds on the Chow-rank of hypermatrices via partial differential encoding of Boolean functions.
Feb 23 (Thursday), 11am online.
For zoom link contact marshall dot cohen at morgan dot edu.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. (Thanks to Bourama Toni) Web of Science database
This database has been added to the library's collection of research materials available to the Howard community.
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. NSF records and management fellowship
Fellow with the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) you will learn NCSES records and information management and assist NCSES’s transition from paper to digital records. Deadline March 5.
2. Florida Institute of Technology Summer REU in Geosciences
In the Summer of 2023 Department of Mathematical Sciences and Ocean Engineering & Marine Sciences will host undergraduate students from around the US. For 8 weeks these students will participate in Statistical Models with Applications to Geoscience research program and learn the skills necessary for a successful scientific career. Deadline March 10.
3. RAY Fellowship Program
The program looks for applicants from minority communities with potential to exercise leadership and respond to social and environmental challenges.
4. Wolfram Summer School program
Opportunity to work with senior developers of Mathematica on real world projects, from June 25-July 12.
In previous newsletters:
HBCU STEM-US Research Center Faculty Program
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1.(Thanks to Sam Hopkins) Do some students learn faster? Maybe not!
This research paper concludes that students learn at same rate regardless of preparation. Sam Hopkins writes: “It's encouraging to be able to tell your students that as long as they put in the effort, they can all take away a lot from your class!”