Math Dept 2014-2015 Newsletter 1
Monday, 1 September 2014
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Welcome back and hope you all a great summer.
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—Ed.
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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Tuesdays
Topological Semigroups and Ramsey Theory Seminar
1:10-2:00 in Annex III room 231, starting September 2.
Neil Hindman will be speaking on recent results on partition
regularity of matrices.
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TALKS AND EVENTS OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT
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1. (via Aziz Yakubu) BLACKWELL-TAPIA CONFERENCE
The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics is pleased to host the
Blackwell-Tapia and Awards Conference Ceremony on November 14 – 15, 2014
at the UCLA Campus. The conference and prize honors David Blackwell and Richard
Tapia, two distinguished mathematical scientists who have been inspirations to
more than a generation of African American, Latino/Latina, and Native American
students and professionals in the mathematical sciences.
The 2014 Blackwell-Tapia Prize will be presented to Jacqueline M.
Hughes-Oliver, Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University.
Hughes-Oliver has made important contributions in a number of statistical
research areas including methodological research on prediction and
classification, variable and model selection with dimension reduction, design
of experiments, and spatial modeling.
We welcome you attend the conference and encourage those needing
funding to apply on the conference webpage at:
https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/BTAP2014
2. (via Aziz Yakubu) Fields Institute, Toronto, CA
This month Simon Brendle of Stanford University will give the
Distinguished Lectures and Sylvia Serfaty of Universite Paris 6 will give the
Coxeter Lectures. For the entire list of events please go to http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/
3. (via Aziz Yakubu) Dynamical Systems and Related Topics Workshop
October 16-19, 2014
The 25th Fall meeting of the Workshop in ÒDynamical Systems and
Related TopicsÓ will take place on October 16 - 19, 2014. The
workshop will be dedicated to the 70th birthday of Anatole Katok and his 50
years of research in dynamical systems. All lectures will be held at the
Mathematics Department (114 McAllister Building) at the Penn State University
Park campus.This workshop has been hosted each fall since 1991 by Penn State
University and each spring since 1992 by the University of Maryland, and is
jointly sponsored by the two institutions. The basic funding of the workshop is
provided by an NSF grant. Additional funding for this meeting is provided by
the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at Penn State.
Organizers:
Conference web site (this will be updated and available at the
beginning of the week of September 1, 2014):
http://www.math.psu.edu/dynsys/dw_2014/
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. Faina Berezovskaya has published a paper titled ÒAsymptotics of
orbits of a Kolmogorov type vector field with a fixed Newton polygonÓ in the
Aug 2014 issue of the AMS Proceedings. This paper is devoted to the memory of
her teacher Prof. Molchanov who passed away in 2012.
2. Aziz Yakubu conveys the announcement from the Directorate of
Steklov Institute of Mathematics that the outstanding mathematician, expert in
the field of dynamical systems, Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences
Advisor, Chief Researcher Dmitrii Viktorovich Anosov passed away on August 5,
2014 in the 78th year of his life.
3. Katie Gurski has received an NSF Grant for Magnetohydrodynamics
Algorithmic Research.
The 36-month NSF award in the amount of $273,146 will support her
collaborative research on Developing Mathematical Algorithms for Adaptive,
Geodesic Mesh MHD use in Astrophysics and Space Physics. The NSF grant will
also support a PhD mathematics student at Howard University.
4. (Toka Diagana) A.
My following papers/book chapters have been either
published or accepted for publication:
1. (Book Chapter) T. Diagana, Perturbations of Unbounded Fredholm
Linear Operators. To Appear in the Handbook on Operator Theory,
Springer, 2014.
2. T. Diagana, Existence Results for Some Nonautonomous
Integro-differential Equations. Journal of
Nonlinear and Convex Analysis 2014 (in press).
3. (Book Chapter) T. Diagana (with M. Zitane), Stepanov-like
Pseudo-Almost Periodic Functions in Lebesgue Spaces with Variable Exponents.
New Frontiers of Multidisciplinary Research in STEM-H, Springer, 2014 (in
press).
4. T. Diagana (with R. Kerby, T. H. Miabey, and F. Ramaroson),
Spectral Analysis for Finite Rank Perturbations of Diagonal Operators in
Non-Archimedean Hilbert Space. P-adic
Numbers, Ultrametric Analysis, and Applications. Vol. 6 (2014),
no. 3, pp. 171-187.
5. T. Diagana (with K. Ezzinbi and M. Miraoui), Pseudo-Almost
Periodic and Pseudo-Almost Automorphic Solutions to Evolution Equations Involving
Theoretical Measure. Cubo: A
Mathematical Journal. Vol. 16 (2014), no. 2, pp.
1-31.
6. T. Diagana, Almost Automorphic
Solutions to a Beverton-Holt Dynamic Equation with Survival Rate. Applied
Mathematics Letters, Vol. 36 (2014), pp. 19-24.
7. T. Diagana, Existence
Results for Some Damped Second-Order Volterra Integro-differential Equations. Applied
Mathematics and Computation Vol. 237 (2014), pp.
304-317.
B.
I was invited to the Ò13th International Conference on p-adic Functional AnalysisÓ held in
Paderborn, Germany, from 08/12/2014 to 08/16/2014 and gave a lecture who title
is ÒSpectral
Analysis for Finite Rank Perturbations of Diagonal Operators in Non-Archimedean
Hilbert SpaceÓ.
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (from various sources)
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1. (via Aziz Yakubu) Opportunities at US Patent and Trademark Office.
National Inventors Hall of Fame: http://invent.org/
Camp Invention: http://www.campinvention.org/
Collegiate Inventors Competition:
http://invent.org/collegiate-inventors-competition/
National Medal of Technology and Innovation:
http://www.uspto.gov/about/nmti/index.jsp
Announcement for the National Medal of Technology and
Innovation:http://www.uspto.gov/about/nmti/nominations.pdf
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INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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1. (From Aziz Yakubu) New York Times article on science in
Africa
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/opinion/africa-needs-science-not-aid.html?ref=international
2. (From Amir Maleki and others) Fields Medal awardees
This year the Fields medal awardees include many firsts. For the
first time a woman mathematician (Maryam Mirzakhani) and mathematicians from
India (Manjul Bhargava), Iran (also Maryam Mirzakhani) and South America (Artur
Avila) won the Fields medal. For a nice description of their work and life
please go to http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta_tag/fields-medal/
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