Math
Dept 2012-2013 Newsletter 20
Monday,
25 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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Wednesday,
Feb 27
Special
talk by Prof. Henok Mawi,
Howard University
4.10pm,
Math dept
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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
Friday
at 4:10 pm, March 1, 2013
Dr.
Trachette Jackson
***Just
Hall Auditorium (Biology Building)***
(Notice
change in location)
Title: Developing
Mathematical Models of Tumor Angiogenesis
Abstract: Motility
is a fundamental property of cells. Coordinated motility of endothelial cells
that reside on the inner surface of blood vessels leads to a critical
bifurcation point in cancer progression: tumor angiogenesis. Successful
angiogenesis is a consequence of biochemical and biomechanical signal
integration across multiple levels of biological organization, and several
temporal and spatial scales. A major challenge facing the cancer research
community is to synthesize known information in a way that improves our
understanding of the mechanisms driving tumor angiogenesis and that will
advance efforts aimed at the development of new therapies for treating
cancer. In this talk, several mathematical models of tumor
angiogenesis will be explored and recent advances will be highlighted.
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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
1. Dr.
Henok Mawi is scheduled to give a talk in the department on
Wednesday February 27, 2013 from 4:10 to 5:00 PM
Dr.
Francis Mensah is scheduled to give a talk in the
department on Monday March 4, 2013 from 4:10 to 5:00 PM
2. 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.