Math Dept 2024-25 Newsletter 1
Monday, 16 September 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.
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Hope you all had a great summer! Welcome back.
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
MONDAYS
Monday, Sep 16. Visit and talk by AMS President-elect, Ravi Vakil
Ravi Vakil from Stanford, the AMS President-elect, will meet with faculty and give a talk on Monday, Sep 16.
The meeting with faculty over lunch (provided) is in DGH 220, 12.20pm.
His talk titled Mathematics of Doodling will be in DGH 221 from 3.10 to 4pm.
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TUESDAYS
Seminar on Topological Semigroups
Tuesdays, 10 am on zoom.
Neil Hindman has been talking about some results in density of left amenable semigroups.
Started on Sep 10.
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.
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 Sep 27
Jim Yorke, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Title: What is the graph of a dynamical system?
On 9/13, Stefano Olla (University of Paris Dauphine (France) and GSSI l'Aquila (Italy)) talked about “Diffusive behavior in extended completely integrable systems.”
The colloquium schedule and videos are available at this website: https://deleo.website/HU/colloquium.html
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. Morgan State University colloquium Sep 19
Dr. Wen-Xiu Ma will speak on Nonlocality, Integrability, and Solitons
Contact MingChao Cai for zoom link. Also in person.
2. Disability Data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
December 2-4, 2024, University of Michigan
3. Matlab and Mathworks webinar
Mathworks is organizing webinars for their products such as MATLAB on 26 Sep, 17 and 31 October.
4. Simiode challenge for differential equations modeling
19 October to 12 November
5. Mid Atlantic Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics Conference (MAAGC)
(Thanks to Roberto de Leo)
Oct 11-12, George Washington University
Our own Sam Hopkins is among the speakers.
6. (Thanks to Shakuan Frankson) AWM 2025 Research Symposium
May 16-18, University of Wiscondin, Madison.
The association of women in mathematics symposium has a wide range of activities for students and faculty.
7. Black Heroes of Mathematics Conference 2024
2-3 October 2024
De Morgan House, London, and online via Zoom
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Congratulations to our esteemed colleagues David James and Daniel Williams on their retirement. The department hosted a party to celebrate their achievements and express gratitude for their outstanding service to the University. We look forward to continue to work with them in their new capacity. Malick Kebe received his Ph. D and Allen Brown his Masters degrees last year. Our alumna Shakuan Frankson now works for the Census Bureau as a mathematical statistician. Congratulations Shakuan, Malick and Allen!
2. Katie Gurski writes:
“Here's an article two other faculty participants and I wrote about The OSU-HBCU Mathematical Biology Workshop. It was a project envisioned by Dr. Michael Reed at Duke University and the late Dr. Aziz Yakubu. The program proceeded with Dr. Janet Best at the Ohio State University (OSU) as the pilot project lead :
Fernando, A., Gurski, K., & Ma, T. (2024). A Research Introduction for Early College Students: Based on the OSU–HBCU Pilot Project. PRIMUS, 1–19.”
3. Roberto de Leo writes :
“This summer the article "Streams and graphs of Dynamical Systems", by Jim Yorke and myself, was published on the Springer journal "Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems". This article is the result of more than 2 years of hard work. In a nutshell, in it we argue that, for the qualitative understanding of a dynamical system, the most important information is not so much "which point is recurrent" but rather "which point is downstream from which".”
4. (Thanks to Bourama Toni) Howard data science program profiled in Fortune magazine
Fortune magazine had an article about the Google and Howard project to train under-represented minority students in data analytics through its Data Science program. In the article our Chair Bourama Toni told Fortune that “Too often, graduates of under-resourced high schools have been gated out of opportunities in well-paid, in-demand careers in the STEM fields because they have not had the requisite training in math and data fundamentals. We’re changing that. We’re excited to expand our partnership with Ed Equity Lab, and this collaboration with Google allows us to extend our impact.”
5. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) AIM request for proposals
The American Institute of
Mathematics (AIM) seeks proposals for workshops (in-person or
virtual), SQuaREs, and online Research Communities.
Activities
for successful in-person workshop and SQuaRE proposals will take
place at the AIM headquarters in the Merkin Center on the campus of
Caltech in Pasadena, CA.
More
Information
6. Joon Ha has received an NSF grant of 1 million dollars for “Identifying the dynamic structure of diabetes with existing mathematical models and its enhancement of diabetes research as its clinical application” and has also published 3 papers recently, including in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and metabolism and the Journal of Physiology.
SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
1. DOE (U.S. Department of Energy ) Fellowship Opportunities
a. IBUILD Graduate Research Fellowship
Fellowship for research in buiding decarbonization. Deadline Dec 6, 2024.
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.
b. Commercial Buildings and Buildings Energy Code Fellowship
c. Sustainable Development Fellowship
2. National Nuclear Security Administration Fellowship (NNSA)
Special internship opportunities for minority serving institutions.
Deadline for applications Oct 27.
3. (Thanks to Daniel Mamo) Data Skills Fellowship for minority students
INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
1. (thanks to Dennis Davenport) Why expanding algebra access is a matter of civil rights
2. A major theorem in Logic (related to continuum hypothesis)