Math Dept 2024-25 Newsletter 2
Monday, 30 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.
Please send entries by the end of the workweek–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 writes about his talk: “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. I plan to speak about this. 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.
The colloquium schedule and videos are available at this website: https://deleo.website/HU/colloquium.html
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
1. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Information day
This event gives undergraduate students a unique look at the research happening at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) presented by GSFC leadership and current NASA scientists through presentations, poster and networking session, and a tour.
2. 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.
3. Disability Data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
December 2-4, 2024, University of Michigan
4. Matlab and Mathworks webinar
Mathworks is organizing webinars for their products such as MATLAB on 26 Sep, 17 and 31 October.
5. Simiode challenge for differential equations modeling
19 October to 12 November
6. 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.
7. (Thanks to Shakuan Frankson) AWM 2025 Research Symposium
May 16-18, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The association of women in mathematics symposium has a wide range of activities for students and faculty.
8. Black Heroes of Mathematics Conference 2024
2-3 October 2024
De Morgan House, London, and online via Zoom
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Mohammad Mahmood writes: “I received two NSF research grants including a travel grant to collaborate with our European partners for the period 2024-2026.”
Our congratulations as well to him for receiving the CoAS Outstanding Research Professor Award for the Year 2024 in an award ceremony last May.
2. Roberto De Leo writes: “On Sep 20 it was accepted for publication on the J. of Diff. Eqs. and Application an article by Ana Anusic and myself "Graph and backward asymptotics of the tent map." The main idea of this article is to show that all main arguments of a recent article on the logistic map by Jim Yorke and myself do not rely on the smoothness of the map and so we adapted them to work under the sole hypothesis of continuity (in particular, all those results hold for the tent map).
A peculiarity of this article is that it started from an email conversation with an author I did not know personally and that I had contacted just to thank about a survey on 1D dynamical systems that helped me while working at the article about the logistic map mentioned above. The conversation that followed brought us to work on this article and we collaborated exclusively via email -- we never even seen each other until I invited Ana to our colloquium, for what I knew until then I could have been working with an AI bot! We still never happened to meet in person.”
3. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport) MAA invites workshop proposals
MAA's Open Math Program invites proposals for professional development workshops to be conducted online.
4. (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
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
d. 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 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.
3. Brookhaven National Lab Summer Program
Summer Internship applications open on Oct 17.
4. (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.
5. Homeland Security Department (DHS) summer program
Students get to know about career opportunities at DHS.
6. (Thanks to Daniel Mamo) Data Skills Fellowship for minority students
7. National Nuclear Security Administration Fellowship (NNSA)
Special internship opportunities for minority serving institutions.
Deadline for applications Oct 27.
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)