Math Dept 2012-2013 Newsletter 19
Monday, 18 February 2013
Please send entries by the end of the week --Ed
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Meetings and Seminars
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Every Monday
Applied Math Seminar
Every Monday 12:10 in ASB-B 201
We invite all faculty and graduate students to join.
We'll be discussing papers, any applied math topics of interest, and
working on new results.
Organizers: Katie Gurski and Talitha Washington
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Combinatorics Seminar
Mondays at 1:20 and also at 4.
The current topic is Ordered trees with a mutator and the main emphasis for the semester will be combinatorics assisted by complex analysis.
Organizer: Lou Shapiro
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
ASB-B 213 3.10 to 4pm
Dr. Adeniran Adeboye
will give talks on:
3-SYMMETRIC SPACES.
Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews
Coordinator
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Every Tuesday
The Seminar on Topological Semigroups
and Ramsey Theory
Dennis Davenport will be talking about partition regularity of
infinite matrices.
Tuesdays at 11:10 a.m in room 233 of Annex
III
Organizer: Neil Hindman
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Every Wednesday
"P-adic Functional Analysis"
SEMINAR
Schedule TBA
REQUIRED BACKGROUND: Basic functional analysis & operator theory
DESCRIPTION: In this Seminar introductory notions on nonarchimedean Banach and Hilbert
spaces will be discussed. Next, discussions will be on the spectral theory of
linear operators upon nonarchimedean Banach spaces.
ORGANIZER: Toka Diagana
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"Evolution Equations and Their Applications" SEMINAR
Schedule TBA
REQUIRED BACKGROUND: Basic functional analysis
DESCRIPTION: Our discussions will mainly be upon the stability,
existence, and uniqueness of solutions to evolution equations on Banach spaces and their applications to partial
differential equations.
ORGANIZER: Toka Diagana
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Mathematics Departmental Colloquium
Feb 22, 2013
TBA
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Fluid dynamics seminar
For those who are new, this is a social gathering in the department
usually after the Friday colloquium (or 4.30 pm if no colloquium).
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Announcements
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From Aziz Yakubu
RECONNECT Workshop 2013
Water Infrastructure, Contamination, and Risk Assessment
Where: Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD
When: June 2 - 8, 2013
About Reconnect:
This CCICADA Summer Reconnect Workshops expose faculty teaching
undergraduates to the role of the mathematical and computer sciences in
homeland security and provides an opportunity to researchers in government or
industry to learn about recent material in the area of internet privacy, a
component of data analytics. Topics are presented in a weeklong series of
lectures and activities; participants are involved in both research activities
and in writing materials useful in the classroom or to share with their
colleagues. Participants may develop materials for publication in either the
CCICADA Technical Reports or the Educational Modules Series published by the
DIMACS Center at Rutgers University.
Topic:
Water Infrastructure, Contamination, and Risk Assessment
The water distribution system, which is a critical component of
assuring safe drinking water, constitutes a significant management challenge
from both an operational and public health standpoint. Reconnect 2013 focuses
on water infrastructure systems including water hydrology, contamination, and decision making. Dr. Paul Houser will look at quantifying
and predicting water cycle and environmental consequences of earth system
variability through numerical hydrologic data simulations and regional land
surface-atmospheric hydrologic modeling. Web-based data visualization tools for
climate and water data will be utilized.
Contamination of water supplies will be
highlighted by Dr. Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, with a guest
lecture by a fracking expert. Epidemiological and surveillance
data of sporadic cases of waterborne diseases and health effects from
accidental or intentional chemical and microbial contamination can be linked to
problems in water distribution systems.
The issue of water contamination due to the process of fracking to obtain natural gas from the ground has
heightened the general publicÕs awareness of this key issue. In addition to
contamination, losses of life and property in the United States and throughout
the world resulting from hydrologic hazards, including floods, droughts, and
related phenomena, are significant and increasing. In the United States, over
three-quarters of federal disaster declarations result from water-related
events and in many parts of the world (e.g., Bangladesh) floods and droughts
(e.g., Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa) have threatened the viability of
society. Dr. Midge Cozzens will conclude the week using game theory to manage
water resource system conflicts.
Organizers:
Midge Cozzens, Research Faculty at DIMACS Rutgers University Asamoah Nkwanta, Professor of
Mathematics, Morgan State University
Speakers:
Paul Houser, Professor of Global Hydrology, George Mason University
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Professor of Mathematics, Howard
University Midge Cozzens, Research Professor and Mathematician, Rutgers
University
Registration fees, lodging, meals and travel: Academic participants:
registration, lodging and meals
will be provided through DHS funding.
Government participants: $350. For-Profit Corporation participants:
$500 (includes all meals from Sunday dinner to Saturday lunch). Limited funds
are expected to be available to provide partial support for travel.
Deadline for Applications is April 1, 2013 or until all slots are
filled. Applications will be submitted online found on the Reconnect web page,
and will be reviewed as they are received. Please email Midge Cozzens if you
are interested.
For more information: Christine Spassione (spassion@dimacs.rutgers.edu)
or Midge Cozzens (midge6930@comcast.net) or visit the Reconnect
web page http://ccicada.org/Reconnect/2013/
Howard University is part of a NSF funded national alliance to mentor
minority postdoctoral fellows and prepare
them for faculty positions at research universities.
These fellowships are for 3 years of which 2 years are spend at one of the
alliance universities and one year at a
mathematics institute, provided there is a suitable program in the postdocs
area of expertise.
This year at a math institute makes this postdoctoral fellowship
highly prestigious and very competitive.
Our aim is to successfully mentor all these postdocs so that they
develop a strong research career.
You can find more info about the program at:
http://www.math.ncsu.edu/alliance
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Teaching Opportunity at John Hopkins Summer Program
We are writing you to let you know about an excellent opportunity for
students or faculty in your department who may be interested in summer
employment as a mathematics teaching assistant or instructor with the Johns
Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) summer programs. CTY offers
challenging academic programs for highly talented elementary, middle, and high
school students from across the country and around the world. Information
regarding our summer programs can be found at www.cty.jhu.edu/jobs/summer.
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Cornell Math Department summer REU 2013 program (via Louise Raphael)
The weblink is on Cornell's math dept website:
www.math.cornel.edu/Undergraduate/REU/REU.htm
Bob Strichartz who works in harmonic
analysis, pdes,
... is the director. Joining him is a postdoc, Hirren at Yale
working with Coifman on some exciting things.
He worked with Bob when he was an undergrad at Cornell, and with Kasso at UMD for his PhD. The other project
director is Keith Dennis,
who will do some nice elementary group theory.
Bob writes: "If you wish to recommend students, please
send them the announcement link, and also send me [str@math.cornell.edu]
their
email addresses and any information you have
about them. I will send them an email inviting them to apply."
Web sites created by students working with Bob may be found at
www.math.cornell.edu/~reu/
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From Department of Energy (Oak Ridge Labs)
Postdoctoral Research Awards
Research opportunities for recent Ph.D. graduates
The EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards support innovative research in
energy efficiency and renewable energy by offering recent Ph.D. recipients* the
opportunity to conduct applied research at universities, national laboratories,
and other research facilities.
*Applicants without a Ph.D. may be considered for the
Water Power topic area.
Research Topics:
Fuel Cells Technologies
Solar
Water Power
Application deadline is February 28, 2013
More information and application materials can be found at:
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/education/postdoctoral
Please share this information with others at your academic
institution/organization.
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From Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville
Department of Biochemistry and
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Sensing and Signaling
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Application Deadline
February 28, 2013
Program Dates
May 29 – August 7, 2013
Email
Phone
(865) 974-5148
The BCMB Department at UT-Knoxville will once again offer a special
REU program for undergraduates interested in hands-on scientific research
experience. The broad focus is on "sensing and signaling". The team of REU faculty represent multiple modern scientific
disciplines including cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and
computational biology.