Math Dept 2022-2023 Newsletter 2
Monday, 26 September 2022
Past newsletters can now be reached via the department website.
[Click on “About” and then “News and Events”].
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
TUESDAYS
Combinatorics Seminar
TBA
Contact coordinator Lou Shapiro for zoom link
WEDNESDAYS
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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THURSDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
The seminar will include applications to Ramsey theory.
11 am on zoom on Thursdays.
First speaker will be Neil Hindman.
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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FRIDAYS
Mathematics Department Colloquium
Fridays, 4.10 to 5pm.
Friday, 30 September
Ana Anusic, Nipissing University, Canada.
Title TBA.
On Friday, 23 September, Antonia De Rosa of University of Maryland talked about Existence and Regularity of Anisotropic Minimal Surfaces. On Friday, September 16, Benedict Sewell of Alfred Renyi Insitute, Budapest talked about Fractal Geometry of the Rauzy Gasket.
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. (Thanks to Marshall Cohen, Morgan State) Morgan State Colloquium
Mingchao Cai of Morgan State will talk about “Preconditioners for Twofold Saddle Point and Block Triadiagonal Problems.”
2. (Thanks to Louise Raphael) MAA Distinguished lecture series
Our alumna and current Chair of the Spelman math department, Naiomi Cameron, will be among the speakers. She will be speaking on October 6 at 7pm. More information.
3. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) BUGCAT conference
This year the annual Binghamton University Graduate Combinatorics, Algebra and Topology (BUGCAT) conference will be in person. Deadline for applying for funding is Oct 7 and for registration and submitting talks is Oct 18. More Information.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Naomi Rankin, undergraduate student working with Katie Gurski, just has a paper accepted for publication in SIAM Undergraduate Research Online.
2. Mohammad Mahmood Announcements
Refereed Journal Publications (Theory and Experiments)
A. Conservation Laws for Cubic-quartic Optical Solitons with Complex Ginzburg-Landau equation having five nonlinear refractive index structures, Anjan Biswas, Abdul H. Kara, Salam Khan, Yakup Yidirim, M.F. Mahmood, Hashim M. Alshehri, Milivoj R. Belic, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials- Rapid Communications, vol.16, no. 3-4, pp. 137-141, March-April 2022
B. Realization of an ideal Cairo Tessellation in Nickel Diazenide NiN2 : High-Pressure Route to Pentagonal 2D Materials, Bykov Maxim, Bykova Elena, Ponomareva Alena, Tasnadi Ferenc, Chariton Stella, Prakapenka Vitali, Glazyrin Konstantin, Smith Jesse, Mahmood Mohammad, Abrikosov, Igor, Goncharov Alexander, ACS Nano (A journal of American Chemical Society) 15, 8, 13539-13546 (2021)
C. Stabilization of Pentazolate anions in high-pressure compounds Na2N5, NaN5 and in Sodium pentazolate framework NaN5.N2, M. Bykov, E. Bykova, S. Chariton, V.B. Prakapenka, I.G. Batyrev, M.F. Mahmood, A.F. Goncharov, Dalton Transactions (A journal of Royal Chemical Society), 50, 7229 (2021)
(Note: Our article on the synthesis of sodium pentazolates received a promotion as a ‘hot paper’ in Dalton Transactions)
D.High-Pressure Synthesis of Dirac Materials: Layered Van der Waals Bonded BeN4 polymorph, Maxim Bykov, Timofey Fedotenko, Stella Chariton, Dominique Laniel, Konstantin Glazyrin, Michael Hanfland, Jesse Smith, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Mohammad F. Mahmood, Alexander F. Goncharov, Alena V. Ponomareva, Ferenc Tasnadi, Alexei I. Abrikosov, Talha Bin Masood, Ingrid Hotz, Alexander N. Rudenko, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Igor A. Abrikosov (a theoretical paper: submitted to Physical Review Letters, 126, 175501(2021)
Their work on the synthesis of BeN4 was chosen as Editor’s highlight in Physical Review Letters which targets a very broad audience.
E. Stabilization of Polynitrogen anions in Tantalum-Nitrogen Compounds at High Pressure, Maxim Bykov, Elena Bykova, Alena V. Ponomareva, Igor Abrikosov, Stella Chariton, Vitali Prakapenka, Konstantin G. Glazyrin, Mohammad F. Mahmood, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Alexander F. Goncharov (Published as a VIP article in Angewandte Chemie Int.Ed.- A journal of the German Chemical Society), DOI: 10.1002/anie.202100283 and 10.1002/ange.202100283; 60,9003 (2021)
VIP article: Their paper on the synthesis of novel tantalum polynitrides was recognized as a VIP article in Angewandte Chemie Journal and was promoted at the journal’s webpage.
External Examiner : He also served as External Examiner of an overseas candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics on Thermal Convective Instability Problems in Viscoelastic Ferromagnetic Fluids at Visvesvaraya Technological University, India on June 2022.
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. Nuclear Security Admin. Minority Internship Program
The National Nuclear Security Administration Minority Serving Institutions Internship Program (NNSA-MSIIP) provides paid opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at Minority Serving Institutions pursuing degrees in critical science, engineering, technology, mathematics, and other disciplines that complement current and future missions of the NNSA.
NNSA-MSIIP offers summer or year-long internship opportunities with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and NNSA headquarters offices, national laboratories, and site offices. Internships involve projects focused on engineering, science, research, technology, policy, business, and government relations.
More Information (Deadline Oct 9).
2. Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) HS-POWER program
The DHS HS-POWER program, administered by the S&T offers summer internships for students majoring in homeland security-related sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
3. EERE seeking fellows
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Agency is seeking talented and passionate Fellows that can support technical, programmatic, strategic, and policy efforts that will meet clean energy goals and drive innovation. Persons who have any degree in science and technology may apply.
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. Topology in the study of data
How “squishy math” is revealing doughnuts in the brain.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-squishy-math-is-revealing-doughnuts-in-the-brain/