Math Dept 2023-24 Newsletter 14
Monday, 6 May 2024
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This will be the last newsletter of the semester. Have a great summer!
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
MONDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
Mondays, 2-3pm on zoom.
The seminars will include applications to Ramsey theory.
Conner
Griffin has been speaking on “Completing a characterization of
relatively
piecewise syndetic sets”
May 6 will be the last seminar day of the semester.
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Neil Hindman (for the rest of this semester)
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TUESDAYS
Combinatorics Seminar
Contact coordinator Lou Shapiro for zoom link.
Graduate Student Seminar
3pm, friday, room 213 and on zoom.
Contact Shakuan Frankson for more information.
WEDNESDAYS
Applied Math Reading Seminar
Coordinator: Katie Gurski, Yeona Kang
Number Theory Seminar
Wednesdays at 3.30pm, on zoom.
Contact coordinators for zoom link.
In the fall, Francois Ramaroson talked 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
Seminars will resume in the fall.
More details – contact Bourama Toni
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
Fridays, 4.10 to 5pm. Room 213 and zoom.
Colloquia will resume in the fall.
The colloquium schedule and videos are available at this website: https://deleo.website/HU/colloquium.html
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. (Thanks to Tim Myers) The International Conference on Differential Equations (ICDE)
May 31 to June 2, 2024 at the Florida Gulf coast University in Fort Myers, Florida.
2. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) Expand your skills with an MAA Mathfest minicourse
The minicourses help you to learn how to incorporate various activities and topics in your course, including Modeling using differential equations, AI, Mathematical Games, Computational exercises, Game theory, etc.,
In previous newsletters
MAA Summer Workshop: Open Math
(ICERM) Empowering a Diverse Computational Mathematics Research Community
MAA Mathfest Aug 7-10, Indianapolis
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. A special session dedicated to Yakubu at AMS Eastern Sectional Meetings
(Thanks to Katie Gurski) A special session honoring the memory of our beloved late colleague Abdul-Aziz Yakubu was held during the sectional meetings, titled “Mathematics of Infectious Diseases.”
Participants shared their fond recollections of Prof. Yakubu while presenting their research. The organizers were Abba Gumel of University of Maryland, Chadie Saad-Roy of UC Berkeley, and Daniel Cooney of Urbana-Champaign. Our colleagues Bourama Toni, Tepper Gill and Katie Gurski also participated.
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. DOE (U.S. Department of Energy ) Fellowship Opportunities
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
There is a fellowship opportunity for Industrial Decarbonization for those with a Bachelor's or advanced degrees from an engineering or physical sciences field. Deadline to apply is July 15.
2. (Thanks to Louise Raphael) Data Activism Internships
Raechel Walker, a PhD student based at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots Group, has created a new initiative called “the Data Activism Program.” She uses computing curricula to empower African American students to apply their computing skills for the betterment of their communities. The program provides opportunities for students as well as educators who wish to serve as mentors.
Internship information Mentor Opportunities
In previous newsletters:
The Minority Educational Institution Student Partnership Program (MEISPP)
Michigan Summer Program in Data Science
DOE : scholarships for STEM students ; Industrial Decarbonization Fellowship
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. (thanks to Louise Raphael) How can faculty aid students in transition to non-academic careers?
2. “Cute” proofs of irrationality of pi, e, etc.,
This paper from the arxiv caught the editor's eye. Timothy Chow emulates a very slick proof of the irrationality of e by Fourier and provides some elegant proofs of the irrationality of e^r, pi, etc., using orthogonal polynomials.