Math Dept 2013-2014
Newsletter 21
Monday, 24 March 2014
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Let me know what you think! Will complete and
create a mirror on the department website soon.
—Ed.
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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Every Monday
1. Combinatorics
Seminar
Room 202, 4pm.
Organizers: Alex Burstein and Lou Shapiro
2. Geometry and
Topology Seminar
ASB-B 213 3.00 to 4pm
Speaker: Professor Joseph Yeager
Topic: SYMPLECTIC
AND CONTACT GEOMETRY.
Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews
Coordinator
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Every Tuesday
The Seminar on Topological Semigroups
and Ramsey Theory
Tuesdays at 11:10 a.m
in room 233 of Annex III
Tuesday, March 26, in the Topological Semigroups and Ramsey Theory seminar, Amir Maleki will speak on "amenability".
Organizer: Neil Hindman
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Friday March 28
Mathematics Department Colloquium
4.10 to 5 pm, ASB-B 213
Speaker: Jane Hawkins, UNC & NSF
Title: ÒTopological and dynamical properties of
Julia sets on the real projective planeÓ
Fluid dynamics seminar
Seminar will take place after colloquium, and at
4.30 if there is no colloquium.
Abstract: (Neil Hindman)
The "Fluid" refers to soda and
beer. The "Dynamics" refers to the topics of conversation,
which is as likely as anything to deal with RGIII and the Washington Football
Club. Pizza, including a vegetarian option, and wings are provided.
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TALKS AND EVENTS OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT
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1. (via Talitha Washington) "Afternoon In Honor to
Cora SadoskyÓ
University of New Mexico in Albuquerque,
New Mexico on April 4, 2014.
This conference will feature the five invited
speakers, who will lecture on current mathematical developments connected to
Cora Sadosky's research in Harmonic Analysis and
Operator Theory. Initiating the event will be a half hour talk about Cora's
life.
Invited Speakers:Svitlana Mayboroda,
Michigan State University, Jill Pipher, Brown
University
Gustavo Ponce, University of California at Santa
Barbara, Rodolfo Torres, University of Kansas,
Sergei Treil, Brown
University
Conference Website: http://www.math.unm.edu/conferences/13thAnalysis/
2. Summer
School for Undergraduate Students:
"Train Tracks, Diffeomorphisms
of Surfaces and Automorphisms of Free Groups,Ó
Instructor: Mladen
Bestvina
University of Utah
from July 7 - 18, 2014.
For details, go to: http://www.math.utah.edu/agtrtg/traintracks/
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. (Crepin Mahop) Math dept Scholarship Competition.
The Scholarship Day will be held on April
4, 2014. I am writing to request that you kindly communicate to the Scholarship
Committee (Jill, Dan and CrŽpin) the names of
promising students in your present or past classes.
As a reminder, these scholarships are made
available each year through endowment funds and/or gifts from the following
generous donors: the Elbert F. Cox Scholarship Fund, the Solveig
Espelie Foundation, the George H. Butcher, Jr. Prize
Fund, the James Donaldson Prize (initiated
with a donation by Dr. Peter Lax), the Gerald Chachere
Award for Excellence in Mathematics, and for the first time this year a
generous gift from Phillips 66.
Competition procedure:
1. Nominations
of candidates by faculty members and/or Self-Nominations;
2. Formal
applications are received (letter of motivation & unofficial transcripts)
3. Recommendations
(from Mathematics faculty members)
4. Selection
of laureates
5. Distribution
of awards.
Applications and nominations are due by Mar 21
and should be sent to Crepin Mahop.
2. (Talitha Washington)
Advanced Computational Biology Symposium will take place at Howard on March
26, 2014.
Topics include Molecular Simulation & Design,
Systems Biology, Genomics and Big Data.
See http://CompBioSymposium.com for further
details.
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (from
various sources)
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1. Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013
Workshops.
Please visit the website
(http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/index-mpe.html)
for additional information.
Upcoming workshops in 2014:
Workshop on Sustainable Human
Environments
Location: Rutgers University
Dates: April 23-25
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/HumanEnvironments/
Workshop on Global Change
Location: UC-Berkeley
Dates: May 19-21
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/GlobalChange/
Workshop of Data-aware Energy Use
Location: UC-San Diego
Dates: September 2014
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/EnergyUse/
We are looking to involve Early Career
Researchers, which are defined as faculty or researchers who have earned their
doctorate within the previous three years, postdocs, graduate students, and
upper-level undergraduates with research experience. Opportunities to apply for
financial support are included on the websites for each workshop.
2. NRC Research Associateship
Programs
The National Research Council of the
National Academies sponsors a number of awards for graduate, postdoctoral and
senior researchers at participating
federal laboratories and affiliated institutions. These awards
include generous stipends ranging from $45,000 - $80,000 per year for recent
Ph.D. recipients, and higher for additional experience. Graduate entry level stipends begin at $30,000. These awards
provide the opportunity for recipients to do independent research in some of
the best-equipped and staffed laboratories in the U.S. Research
opportunities are open to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and for some of
the laboratories, foreign nationals.
Detailed program information, including online
applications, instructions on how to apply,
and a list of
participating laboratories, are available on the NRC Research Associateship Programs Web site (see
link above).
3. The Noyce Mathematics Education Teaching scholarship at NC State University is a stipend/scholarship
offered to students interested in being prepared as a highly qualified
mathematics teacher who will teach in a high-needs district. Graduates
who pursue a Master of Teaching in Secondary Mathematics or a Master of
Education in Secondary Mathematics can receive $25,000 for one academic year.
Each scholar will teach two years
in a high needs high school for each academic year of funding and participate
in all Noyce program activities. Please share
this opportunity with any students that you believe will benefit from it.
For more information, please visit poe.ced.ncsu.edu/noyce.
Applications are due by April 15.
4. (Aziz Yakubu) AMS-Simons
Travel Grants
Applications are now being accepted, with support
provided by the Simons Foundation. The grant provides an early-career
mathematician with $2,000 per year for two years to be used for
research-related travel.
The application period for 2014 is February 1,
2014 through 11:59 pm eastern time on March 31, 2014.
To learn more about eligibility and how to apply,
visit
http://www.ams.org/programs/travel-grants/AMS-SimonsTG
5. New Directions Research Professorships
(NDRP) and its New Directions Short Course (NDSC).
The Institute for Mathematics
and Its Applications.
The NDRP is a sabbatical supplement to be in
residence at the IMA for its program year. The NDRP provides an extraordinary
opportunity for established mathematicians - typically mid-career faculty at
U.S. universities - to branch into new directions and increase the impact of
their research. The program year for 2014-2015 is "Discrete Structures:
Analysis and Applications." We are also accepting applications for the 2015-2016 program year "Control Theory and its
Applications." Evaluation of applications will begin February 10,
2014, and will continue until they are awarded.
The NDSC is on "Topics in Control
Theory" and will be held at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus
from May 27 to June 13, 2014. This intensive three-week course offers another
extraordinary opportunity for established mathematicians to branch into new
research directions.
More detailed information can be found at http://www.ima.umn.edu/new-directions.
6. From Oak Ridge Labs
Graduate Internship opportunities
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The Computational Data Analytics
Research Group (CDAG) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has multiple
openings for Graduate Interns in the field of Data Analytics Research. https://www3.orau.gov/ORNL_TOppS/Posting/Details/516
The Computing and Computational
Science Directorate (CCSD) at ORNL oversees ORNLÕs store of computing power and
its talented staff of computational scientists and mathematicians. CCSD has
multiple Graduate Internship openings in the fields of: High-Performance File
Systems and Storage; Communications Middleware; HPC Languages and Tools
(programming languages, compilers, runtimes, and tools for high-performance
computers); Large-Scale and Data-Intensive, Collaborative, Scientific
Applications. https://www3.orau.gov/ORNL_TOppS/Posting/Details/515
7. The U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE) SunShot Postdoctoral Research Awards
The SunShot
Postdoctoral Research Awards support innovative solar research by offering
recent Ph.D. recipients the opportunity to conduct applied R&D at
universities, national laboratories, and other research facilities.
Application Deadline: April 30, 2014
For more information and to apply, visit: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/education/postdoctoral
8. Tutoring Opportunity
Frog Tutoring is looking to hire tutors to work with students in
the area.
If you are interested in a
part-time tutor position, please visit our website: http://dc.frogtutoring.com/
Anyone interested in applying for the tutor position should submit their application and unofficial transcript at our website:http://gradegetter.com/users/signup/164
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INTERESTING
ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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1. (From Aziz
Yakubu) Please find an article on one of our PhD
students, Evelyn Thomas.
https://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=2136
Please join me in congratulating Dr.
Evelyn Thomas and her PhD advisor Dr. Katharine Gurski.
2. (From Aziz Yakubu) New (and free) handbook - Math
Modeling: Getting Started and Getting Solutions
(received from Michelle Montgomery, Director of
Marketing and Outreach, SIAM