Math Dept 2024-25 Newsletter 13
Monday, 14 April 2025
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.
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.
On 4/1 John Johnson of the Ohio State University continued his talk on Characterizing Collectionwise Piecewise Syndetic Sets via Derived Sets along Ultrafilters.
Contact coordinator for zoom invite.
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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Math Biology Seminar
On Tuesday, 4/8, Sayomi Kamimoto of our department spoke.
Title: Characterizing Delay Dynamics through Compact Memory Operators
Coordinators: Katie Gurski, Yeona Kang
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Combinatorics Seminar
Contact coordinator Lou Shapiro for zoom link.
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Number Theory Seminar
Tuesdays at 2.15pm, on zoom.
Angelica Babei spoke on April 1 on the use of machine learning to predict traces of Frobenius maps for elliptic curves.
Contact coordinators for zoom link.
Coordinators: Francois Ramaroson and Sankar Sitaraman
WEDNESDAYS
Math team/Math Club meetings
Organizer: Jill McGowan
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FRIDAYS
Tutorial on machine learning
Christopher Kim did a tutorial on spiking neural networks on Friday, April 11.
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Graduate Students Seminar
Fridays, 3-4pm, ASB 213
Lakyah Tyner of Northeastern University spoke about “Lower Bounds for Anonymous Whistleblowing” on April 4.
Contact person: Aaliyah Bratcher
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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.
Upcoming speakers:
4/18/2025
Jie Ren of our department will be the speaker. Title TBA
The colloquium schedule and videos are available at this website: https://deleo.website/HU/colloquium.html
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. OPEN Math workshop with MAA
July 7-11, 2025. This 4 week Online Professional Development workshop is on incorporating mathematical modeling using Differential Equations in teaching.
2. (Thanks to Talitha Washington) Data Science Symposium
The Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics (CADSA) will host the CADSA Symposium to highlight data science, analytics, and AI research at Howard University on Monday, April 21, 2025, in the Interdisciplinary Research Building (2201 Georgia Ave NW). Through presentations, discussions, and networking, the symposium accelerates discovery, strengthens interdisciplinary collaborations, and welcomes participation from students, faculty, staff, and the broader community.
See previous newsletters for more upcoming events.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Workshop in memory of Todd Drumm
The Brin mathematical research institute at the University of Maryland, College Park recently organized a workshop in memory of our beloved colleague Prof. Dr. Todd Drumm who sadly passed away on March 27, 2020. Todd Drumm is known for having introduced the concept of crooked planes to build fundamental polyhedra for free discrete groups acting properly and isometrically on 3-dimensional Minkowski space. The workshop was titled “Lorentzian, Affine, and Hyperbolic Differential Geometry – in memory of Todd Drumm” and was held on April 7 and 8 last week. Jill McGowan was one of the organizers.
2. Joon Ha awarded COAS Research Award
For his exceptional contributions to the College of Arts and Sciences as judged by his peers, Joon Ha is the recipient of the 2024-25 College of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Research by an Associate Professor. The department sends its hearty congratulations to Joon Ha.
3. Training Keys by alumna Valerie Nelson
Alumna Valerie Nelson runs the Training Keys program. Upcoming programs include workshops on AI and Stem careers. For more information visit https://thetrainingkeys.com/
4. HU Research Month Call for Papers
April is research month at Howard. The Research Symposium happens April 24-25.
Submit abstract at https://researchmonth.howard.edu/
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport)
a) Summer teaching with JHU CTY (Center for Talented Youth)
Johns Hopkins University is seeking mathematics instructors for the CTY program. Anyone with expertise and experience in teaching college level students is welcome to apply. Substantial stipends provided.
2. (Thanks to Joon Ha) dkNET Summer of Data Student Program
7 weeks, from June 25 to August 8, 2025.
Research projects in medical sciences, especially those that involve antibodies, genetically modified organisms, and 'omics data.
Deadline April 14. More details.
3. Americorps Generation Teach Summer Fellowship
Deadline April 15. Students 17 and up encouraged to apply for summer teaching positions. Stipends provided.
See previous newsletters for more opportunities
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. A youtube video on Feynman path integrals
During his colloquium talk Tepper Gill talked about the Kuelbs-Steadman spaces. Among other things they are useful in calculating Feynman path integrals. Here is a popular video on these integrals. It starts with the question “Does a particle explore all possible paths when travelling from one point to another?”