Math Dept 2014-2015
Newsletter 3
Monday, 15 September 2014
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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Mondays
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Geometry & Topology Seminar
First meeting this Semester on Monday, September
8.
Speaker: Joseph Yeager
Topic: Contact Topology
Place: Mathematics Department Room: ASB-B 213.
Time: 3.00PM -4.00PM.
Coordinator: Professor Stanley M.
Einstein-Matthews
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Tuesdays
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Topological Semigroups
and Ramsey Theory Seminar
1:10-2:00 in Annex III room 231.
Neil Hindman will be
speaking on recent results on partition regularity of matrices.
Co-ordinator:
Neil Hindman
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Wednesdays
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Combinatorics
Seminar
2.10 to 3 pm, Room 203, ASB-B
Co-ordinator:
Lou Shapiro
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Differential Equations & Dynamical Systems seminar
Topics: Evolution Equations, Difference
Equations, Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Differential Equations, Fractional
Differential Equations, Integrodifferential Equations,
Partial Differential Equations.
12:10-1:00,
213 ASB-B. A preliminary list of
speakers:
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Speaker |
Date |
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Ahmed Mohamed |
September 10, 2014 |
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Roberto DeLeo
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September 17, 2014 |
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Talitha Washington |
September 24, 2014 |
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Henok Mawi |
October 1, 2014 |
Organizer: Toka Diagana
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Fridays
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
4.10 to 5 pm, ASB-B 213
Friday, Sep 19
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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 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.
Conference web site : http://www.math.psu.edu/dynsys/dw_2014/
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1.
Jose Vega-Guzman recent publications
1.
Vega-Guzman, J.M. ; Alshaery,
A.A.; Hilal, E.M.; Bhrawy,
A.H.; Mahmood, M.F.; Moraru,
L.; Biswas, A. Optical soliton
perturbation in magneto-optic waveguides with spatio-temporal
dispersion . Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials issue 9-10. (to
appear)
2.
Vega-Guzman, J.M. ; Hilal,
E.M. ; Alshaery, A.A.; Bhrawy,
A.H.; Mahmood, M.F.; Moraru,
L.; Biswas, A. Thiring
optical solitons with spatio-temporal
dispersion. Proc. Romanian Acad. A (to appear)
3.
Ebadi, G.; Mojaver,
A.; Vega-Guzman, J.M. ; Khan, K.R.; Mahmood, M.F.; Moraru, L.; Biswas, A.; Belic, M. Solitons in Optical Metamaterials
by F-Expansion Scheme. JOAM/OAM-RC (to appear)
4.
Herrera-Valdez, M.; Suslov, S.;
Vega-Guzman, J.M. A Graphical Approach to a Model of Neuronal Tree with
Variable Diameter .
Mathematics 2(3), 119--135. (2014)
5.
Suazo, E.; Suslov,
S.; Vega-Guzman, J.M. The Riccati System and
a Difusion-type equation. Mathematics 2(2),
96--118. (2014)
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
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1. HUGS
research website (via Talitha Washington)
Be the first Howard University Graduate School
faculty member or student to submit a "peer-reviewed research link"
for this grad program and be featured in an online cover story
in the HUGS Research Magazine (hugsresearch.org).
We
don't have to tell you the benefits a cover story can bring to a researcher . .
. in addition, your research link will appear right on this page and be
historically archived for years to come.
Just use our super-easy submission form by clicking the "Submit
Your Research" button.
2. Frog Tutoring
Frog Tutoring are looking to hire
Howard University tutors to work with students
in the DC area.
Students who want to learn more information
about Frog Tutoring, please visit their website: http://dc.frogtutoring.com/
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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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