Math Dept 2024-25 Newsletter 3
Monday, 14 October 2024
Past newsletters can now be reached via the department website.
[Click on “About” and then “News and Events”].
Newsletter is sent out when there is something new.
Please send entries by the end of the workweek–Ed.
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Highly recommend talk by Tao on AI and mathematics – in “Interesting Articles” section --- Ed.
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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. Details TBA.
Co-ordinator: Edmund Ameyaw
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TUESDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
Tuesdays, 10 am on zoom.
Neil Hindman continues. Here is an intro to his talks: “Dona and I came up with a proof that for any semigroup satisfying the strong Folner condition, the Folner density and Banach density are equal.... A copy of the proof is posted on my webpage nhindman.us under "Seminar on topological semigroups and Ramsey Theory."”
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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Combinatorics Seminar
Contact coordinator Lou Shapiro for zoom link.
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WEDNESDAYS
Applied Math Reading Seminar
Coordinator: Katie Gurski, Yeona Kang
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Number Theory Seminar
Wednesdays at 3.30pm, on zoom.
Seminars will start 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, October 25
Christopher Kim, Howard University
Eitan Tadmore (University of Maryland at College Park and IPST) spoke on Friday, October 4, on “Swarm-Based Gradient Descent Methods for Non-Convex Optimization.”
The colloquium schedule and videos are available at this website: https://deleo.website/HU/colloquium.html
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. NSF STEM Education CAREER Webinar Series
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network invites you to register for the NSF STEM Education CAREER Webinar Series, designed specifically to support STEM Education faculty at minority-serving institutions (MSIs). This 5-part series is your roadmap to increasing your understanding and competitiveness in the NSF CAREER Program. Next webinar on Oct 22.
In previous newsletters
Black Heroes of Mathematics Conference 2024
AWM 2025 Research Symposium
Simiode challenge for differential equations modeling
Matlab and Mathworks webinar
Disability Data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Our colleagues starting this semester
The department gives a hearty welcome to our newest colleagues who joined this semester:
Sayomi Kamimoto, Assistant Professor, with expertise in Dynamical Systems and Numerical Analysis
Christopher Kim, Assistant Professor, with expertise Data Science, Machine Learning, Numerical Analysis
Jermain McDermott. Full-time Lecturer.
2. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) MAA invites workshop proposals
MAA's Open Math Program invites proposals for professional development workshops to be conducted online.
In previous newsletters
AIM request for proposals
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. DOE (U.S. Department of Energy ) Fellowship Opportunities
a. Marine Energy Fellowship : Graduate Student track
Open for US citizens and permanent residents, wanting to do research in technologies to produce energy from ocean waves, tides and currents.
b. Sustainable Development Fellowship
c. Hydrogen Energy Education program
The H2EDGE program is focused on developing educational materials at the university and professional level to support the emerging hydrogen industry workforce. Funding available for university, faculty and student developed projects for increasing awareness and knowledge of hydrogen energy and its role in decarbonization.
e. Solar Manufacturing Internship for Leaders in Energy (SMILE) Program
The internships will be held for up to 10-weeks during the 2025 summer with a tentative start date of June 2, 2025 at participating companies.
More Information (includes zoom link for information session on Oct 17)
2. (Thanks to Joon Ha) Graduate School at Rice University
Rice University is accepting applications for Graduate School. This year they are removing GRE requirement for most programs and waiving application fees for students from Texas or nearby states. Application form (deadline Nov 27) and Waiver Request form (to be filled by Nov 1).
3. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport)
Summer Research at NRL (Naval Research Lab)
The NRL Acoustics Division in Washington DC is looking for two graduate students in the field of mathematics to work on an acoustic analysis problem for the summer of 2025; the application deadline through the Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program (NREIP) is November 1, 2024 (with references). Interested graduate students are encouraged to submit applications to the NREIP through https://www.navalsteminterns.us/nreip/
NRL also has programs for faculty to do summer research and sabbatical research.
Department of Navy HBCU/MI Student Internship Programs
Applications for the 2025 Student Internship Program (SIP) are now open. Within the SIP portfolio there are a total of ten distinctively unique internship programs representing a cross section of career paths across the Naval Research Establishment (NRE), Naval Research & Development Establishment (NRDE), and other supporting naval agencies and organizations.
Vassar College looking for tenure-track faculty in Computer Science
4. Brookhaven National Lab Summer Program
Summer Internship applications open on Oct 17.
5. (Thanks to Katie Gurski) National Cancer Institute Summer Internship
The biostatistics branch at NCI (National Cancer Institute, part of NIH) would be very interested in having (paid) summer interns from the Mathematics Department at Howard University. The student should have some basic programming skills and ideally have taken some statistics (calculus based) course work. This could even lead to a master’s or PhD thesis.
6. Homeland Security Department (DHS) summer program
Students get to know about career opportunities at DHS.
In previous newsletters
Data Skills Fellowship for minority students
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. An illuminating talk on AI and Mathematics by Terence Tao
In this very informative talk on AI and mathematics Fields medallist Terence Tao gives a wide ranging look at the current state of technology. Main topics are the Lean theorem verification program and machine learning in mathematics. He shows how a theorem in knot theory was proved using AI and how AI might assist mathematicians in the future.