Math Dept 2024-25 Newsletter 8
Monday, 27 January 2025
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[Click on “About” and then “News and Events”].
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
Data Science Seminar
Faculty and Graduate Students are invited to present their research at the Data Science Seminar. This includes research in other areas that involves data science.
Contact coordinator for more information.
Co-ordinator: Edmund Ameyaw
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TUESDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
Tuesdays, 11 am on zoom.
Talks will resume Jan 28.
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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Math Biology Seminar
Tuesdays, 12.30 to 1.30pm, Room 205, Annex III.
Seminars will resume in spring.
Coordinators: Katie Gurski, Yeona Kang
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Combinatorics Seminar
Contact coordinator Lou Shapiro for zoom link.
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WEDNESDAYS
Number Theory Seminar
Wednesdays at 3.30pm, on zoom.
Seminars will resume soon.
Contact coordinators for zoom link.
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 soon.
More details – contact Bourama Toni
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
Fridays, 4.10 to 5pm. Room 213 and zoom.
Friday, 31 January
Rodney Wallace, Kyndryl (formerly IBM)
Real World Predictive Analytics Examples using CRISP-DM in IT Service Delivery
On friday, 24 January, Sayomi Kamomoto of our department talked about Bifurcation Validation and Application to a Red Coral Population Model.
The colloquium schedule and videos are available at this website: https://deleo.website/HU/colloquium.html
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
(Thanks to Dennis Davenport)
a) MAA virtual Session on AI
Zoom Session titled AI Wary to AI wise on Jan 29.
b) Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference (GSCC)
This year at the University of Southern California from March 15-17, 2025.
The conference will include plenary addresses from three keynote speakers: Rosa Orellana
(Dartmouth
College), Persi Diaconis (Stanford University), Fan Wei (Duke
University)
along with a series of ~20 minute research talks from
graduate students.
Travel
funding application deadline: January 31
Talk application
deadline: January 31
Abstract submission deadline: February
21
Registration deadline: March 1
c) NYU School of Public Health MPS-MPH program informational session
January 28, 8.30 pm
d) International Mathematics and Statistics Students Research Symposium
April 12, all day. Virtual conference organized by African Mathematical Union
Registration is free. Information and Application
e) Online Undergraduate Resource Fair for the Advancement and Alliance of Marginalized Mathematicians
Taking place via Zoom on February 8 & 9, 2025 from 10am to 6pm Central Time.
The conference aims to help students gain resources and learn about opportunities to start or develop a math career (in research, teaching, or industry).
2. (Thanks to Kamal Barley) 14th Ohio River Analysis Meeting
March 29-30, 2025 at the University of Cincinnati.
Plenary speakers are: Aynur Bulut (Louisiana State University), Almut Burchard (University of Toronto), Aleksandr Logunov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jeffrey Schenker (Michigan State University), Bobby Wilson (University of Washington)
Deadline for registration January 31, 2025., especially if you would like to give a contributed talk or be considered for travel support.
3. UDC 5th Annual Teaching Roundtable
April 11, 2025, UDC.
This year's theme is “Inclusive Excellence: Fostering Engagement Through Diverse Perspectives.” Details and Abstract Submission
4. SIMIODE EXPO 2025
14 - 16 February 2025. Fifth international online conference devoted to teaching and learning differential equations through a modeling approach and broader issues.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Tepper Gill writes:
a) I am planning a seminar on "Analysis and Applications " for the spring. Professor Mark Meyers of Georgetown U. has agreed to join us. I have also invited faculty and students from GW, UMD and CU. We will meet on Wednesdays, but the time and place has not been set. All interested graduate students are welcome.
b) Professor Imtiaz Ahmed and I are planning a seminar on "Quantum Information" for this spring. This seminar is intended for faculty and students (grad. and undergrad.) in math., computer sci. computer. and electrical. engineering. We assume that the students have had calculus. 3 and hope for linear algebra. The dates, times and place have not been set.
2. Our colleague Talitha Washington returns to Washington
Our congratulations on her new appointments, including as Professor of Mathematics. Announcement from the provost:
Talitha
Washington, Ph.D., is appointed as the executive director of CADSA,
the new Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics and the Sean
McCleese Endowed Chair in Computer Science, Race, and Social Justice.
The purpose of CADSA is to advance Howard’s leadership as a major
hub of data science for social impact research and to train the next
generation of data scientists with expertise in analyzing racial
bias.
A nationally recognized mathematician, Dr. Washington
returns to Howard University where she previously served as a tenured
faculty member in the Department of Mathematics. She also currently
serves on the U.S. Census Bureau’s Census Scientific Advisory
Committee of the U.S. Census Bureau and is the president of the
Association for Women in Mathematics. Her research focuses on the
applications of differential equations to problems in biology and
engineering as well as the development of nonstandard finite
difference schemes to numerically solve dynamical systems.
Dr.
Washington recently served as the inaugural director of the Atlanta
University Center (AUC) Data Science Initiative and a professor of
mathematics at Clark Atlanta University. In addition, she has held a
prestigious appointment at the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a
program director in the Convergence Accelerator Program and in the
Division of Undergraduate Education, where she was instrumental in
establishing NSF’s first Hispanic Serving Institutions program. She
has also served as a faculty member at Duke University, the College
of New Rochelle, and the University of Evansville.
The
recipient of various honors, Dr. Washington is a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society, the Association of Women in
Mathematics, and the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS). She earned a Bachelor of Science in mathematics
degree from Spelman College and a master’s degree and Doctor of
Philosophy degree from the University of Connecticut. She also
received an honorary doctorate in science from the University of
Connecticut.
3. HU Research Month Call for Papers
April is research month at Howard. The Research Symposium happens April 24-25.
Deadline for abstracts of oral presentations, posters, workshops and seminars is March 1.
Submit abstract at https://researchmonth.howard.edu/
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport)
a) Openings at Gettysburg College
Finishing PhD students are invited to apply for two VAP openings. The area of specialization is open and the teaching load is 3 courses per semester. Beyond an interest in innovative teaching in a liberal arts environment, preference will be given to candidates who have potential to promote a campus environment in which traditionally minoritized students will thrive. Application review starts on February 10th and will continue until the positions are filled.
b) NYU Quantitative Aging Summer Research Internship
c) Generation Teach (GT)’s award-winning Summer Teaching Fellowship
Generation Teach provides undergraduate and high-school students with high-quality summer teaching experiences. 100% of summer 2024 teaching fellows reported developing skills they will use whether or not they become teachers. The fellowship is an amazing opportunity for students to earn money while gaining valuable experience and developing professional skills.
Application deadlines are February 15 and March 15.
More Information and Application
2. WEF (Water Environment Federation) programs for STEM students
The WEF InFLOW (Introducing Future Leaders to Opportunities in Water) STEMpath program is a scholarship opportunity that engages students in their 3rd/4th+ year undergrad or 1st/2nd year master’s program between 18 and 35 years old representing historically underrepresented racial and/or ethnic groups. This program introduces students currently enrolled in STEM programs to career opportunities in the water sector through WEF programs and events.
Deadline Feb 27.
More Information and Application
3. FAU Smmer Institute in Biostatistics and Data Science (SIBDS) 2025
Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton Campus)
Undergraduates/early graduates with STEM courses can apply for May 19th--June 27th, 2025 NIH Funded Training Program.
Deadline March 14th, 2025
4. National Nuclear Security Administration
Students of minority serving institutions can apply for PATH scholarship that provides stipends for a year or two.
Deadline March 2.
See previous newsletters for more opportunities
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. MAA Values: Teaching math as an act of resistance
2. (Thanks to Louise Raphael) Prime Numbers in a Play by Tom Stoppard
Louise recently saw a play by Tom Stoppard and sent us the playbill. An excerpt:
“Prime numbers are the prime metaphors in Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Early in the play, Ludwig Jacobowicz, a mathematician, recounts a recurring dream. He has solved the riddle of prime numbers. He has proven the hypothesis of Bernhard Riemann, postulated in 1859. Of course, Ludwig is wrong. Riemann' Hypothesis remains unproven to this day. The scenes in Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt at first move through time in a linear sequence. It starts firmly as a play set in 1899. Before the intermission, it leaps forward to 1924, initiating a sudden series of rapid shifts. After the interval, we are off, hurtling through time. With each of these shifts, the world of the characters changes in unthinkable ways. History, it seems, is like a prime number too. It defies rational explanation. "If we think of the world's future, we always mean where it will be if it keeps going as we see it going now, “ Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote in 1929. "It doesn't occur to us that it is not going in a straight line but in a curve, constantly changing direction."