Math Dept 2023-24 Newsletter 5
Monday, 13 November 2023
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
AMS Eastern Sectional Meetings, April 6-7, 2024
Our department will host this spring's AMS sectional meetings.
TUESDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
The seminar will include applications to Ramsey theory.
Tuesdays at 10.10 am.
Dilip Raghavan of the National University of Singapore is talking about Borel order dimension.
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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Combinatorics Seminar
Contact coordinator Lou Shapiro for zoom link.
WEDNESDAYS
Applied Math Reading Seminar
Coordinator: Katie Gursky, Yeona Kang
Number Theory Seminar
Wednesdays at 3.30pm, on zoom.
Contact coordinators for zoom link.
Francois Ramaroson is talking about Holm curves (a type of elliptic curve).
Coordinators: Francois Ramaroson and Sankar Sitaraman
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Math team/Math Club meetings
Organizer: Jill McGowan
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FRIDAYS
Undergraduate Math Seminar
Fridays, 2:45 -3pm, room 210, Annex 3
There will be pizza and refreshments. The speaker on Oct 27 was Physics and Mathematics major Myles Pope and the title was “Tidal Impact on the Evolution of Exomoons.” On Nov 3 undergraduate students under the supervision of Dr. Joon Ha spoke on the modeling of Two Major Factors of Types 2 Diabetes and Personalized Therapy of Type 2 Diabetes.
Graduate Student Seminar
3pm, friday, room 213 and on zoom.
On Friday, Oct 27, Daniel Mamo, first-year math PhD student, spoke about some recursive relations for integral partition functions. On Nov 3, Ivan Sudakow spoke about the mathematics of planet earth.
Contact Shakuan Frankson for more information.
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
Fridays, 4.10 to 5pm. Room 213 and zoom.
Friday, Nov 17
Ali Maaloaui, Clark University, Boston.
On friday, Nov 3, Dimiter Vassiliev (University of New Mexico) spoke about The fractional Yamabe equation on homogeneous groups.
The colloquium schedule and videos are available at this website: https://deleo.website/HU/colloquium.html
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
In previous newsletters
2024 Blackwell-Tapia Conference, Nov 15-16
55th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing March 4-8, 2024.
Infinite Possibilities Conference, April 18-20, 2024
Southeastern Atlantic regional conference on differential equations (SEARCDE)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. HCAI Mid-career Reinvigoration Seed Grant Proposals - 2023/2024
Internal Submission Deadline: Friday, December 1, 2023
Institute for Socially and Culturally Relevant Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence’s or HCAI@Howard seeks to provide Mid-career faculty at the Associate and Full Professor Rank with the opportunity to reignite their research vision for the future of AI at Howard by creating new, ambitious, and speculative ideas with the objective of getting initial results that can lead to fully funded research and publications. We welcome interdisciplinary proposals from the whole array of social, scientific, behavioral, and experimental work. We especially aim to fund collaborations of faculty whose work bridges two or more disciplines and proposals that can make a persuasive case that these initial results will catalyze further support from external stakeholders like the NSF, NIH, or Office of Naval Research. The award includes 2 grants, up to $50K each for a one-year period.
Priority Areas: Aging ; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ; Fairness, Ethics, and Equity in AI.
For more questions contact gloria.washington AT howard.edu
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. (Thanks to Henok Mawi) Navy's summer Faculty Research Program (SFRP)
The Department of Navy HBCU/MI Programs manages the Office of Naval Research’s and is interested in increasing the number of professors from HBCUs that successfully submit applications and are accepted into the program.
The deadline to apply is December 14.
2. (Thanks to Shakuan Frankson) DOE's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
The DOE CSGF is open to seniors and those in their first year of graduate study, and it will provide up to 4 years of financial support towards your doctoral degree. You will receive a yearly stipend of $45k, with tuition and fees fully covered. Furthermore, you'll receive 12-week research practicum experience. If this interests you, follow the link below to learn more. The deadline is January 17, 2024. Click this link for more: https://www.krellinst.org/csgf/how-apply
3. Homeland Security Professional Opportunities
Student Workforce to Experience Research program is now accepting applications for internships starting in the summer of 2024. Deadline Dec 15.
More information and application
Also, DHS' Transportation Security Lab is offering summer internships.
DHS' Summer Research Team (SRT) Program for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) is now accepting applications from faculty at Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) interested in participating in a summer research team experience. Selected Faculty will be invited to submit a Team Application including a Research Project Proposal developed in collaboration with a DHS Center researcher and applications from one or two qualified students.
4. The Innovation in Buildings (IBUILD) Graduate Research Fellowship
IBUILD Graduate Research Fellowship is now accepting applications through December 1, 2023.
5. University of Massachusetts, Amherst graduate fellowship
UMass is recruiting 5-8 PhD students for NSF funded projects on sustainable energy, energy equity, and climate change resilience. Our students collaborate with each other and community and industry leaders to find energy solutions with local to global-scale impacts.
5. Other opportunities at Federal labs:
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In previous newsletters:
DOE Science, Technology and Policy Fellowship
Opportunities at DHS, DOE (energy and conservation) and Wells-Fargo.
DOE summer 2024 Visiting Faculty program
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. The Math behind technology to beam solar power from space
A team at CalTech has demonstrated the feasibility of transmitting solar power from panels in space using microwave interference.
This paper describes the engineering math behind the technology to fold solar panels into very small and thin packages so that they will unfold in space using only the stored kinetic energy.