Math Dept 2014-2015
Newsletter 4
Monday, 29 September 2014
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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Mondays
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Geometry & Topology Seminar
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.
Oct 1: Henok
Mawi, HU
Organizer
: Toka Diagana
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Graduate Student Seminar
Wed, Oct 1, 1 to 2 pm, Annexe III, Room 229
Nourriddine Siewe will talk abut Latex
Compilation
Fridays
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
4.10 to 5 pm, ASB-B 213
Friday, Sep 26
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Speaker: Jim Lawrence, George Mason University Title:
The odd-even invariant, for oriented matroids and
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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
Richard Bayne) Morgan State University
talk by Dev Phulara
Thu, Oct 2, 11.05 am,
Carnegie Bldg Room 157, Morgan State University
Dev Phulara from HU math dept will
speak on ÒSome new additive and multiplicative Ramsey numbers."
2. (via
Aziz Yakubu) 2015
Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics
The
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Mathematics would like to be sure you
know that registration opens online on Oct. 1 for presenters and Oct. 6 for
non-presenters. Registration fills up
quickly so interested students should be encouraged to sign up early.
Registration will be open at: http://www.math.unl.edu/~ncuwm/ncuwm_registration/
3. (via
Louise Raphael) Fifteenth Annual Berkeley Edge Conference
When: Nov. 6 - 9, 2014
Where: The University of California, Berkeley
Nomination deadline: September 26, 2014
To apply, please visit : http://bsn.berkeley.edu/bec2013
4. (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
5. (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/
6. (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/
7. (via Aziz Yakubu) Graduate
Workshop on Current Trends in Statistical Ecology
The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
April 15-17, 2015, at NIMBioS.
Application deadline: December 1, 2014
http://www.nimbios.org/education/WS_gradconf2015
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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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. (via Aziz Yakubu)
Post-doctoral position at Washington University in St. Louis
A post-doctoral training grant (T32) from the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the NIH is available. This
program deals with statistical genetics and cardiovascular genetic
epidemiology. The training is achieved using a multidisciplinary setting
with an emphasis on statistical genetics and substantive applied orientation in
cardiovascular disease and related risk factors as well as other complex traits
related to heart, lung, and blood disorders.
Graduates in Statistics PhD program should
contact post-doc-search@wubios.wustl.edu.
3. (via Louise Raphael) Tenure Track Positions at The Department of Mathematics at Spelman College
(Atlanta, GA)
Applications invited for two- (2) tenure- track positions at the
Assistant Professor level, with a specialization in Statistics, and with a
specialization in Graph Theory, Combinatorics, or
Applied Mathematics.
More info at https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000848967-01 (second
job listed)
Questions can be sent to the dept chair JEhme@Spelman.edu
(Jeff Ehme). "Ehme"
is pronounced "Amy".
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INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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1.
(From Aziz Yakubu and Toka
Diagana) Macarthur Genius Award to Two
Mathematicians
Yitang Zhang of Univ. of New Hampshire for Number
theory and Jacob Lurie of Harvard for Algebraic Geometry.
More details:
http://www.ams.org/news?news_id=2376
(ZhangÕs
work on bounded gaps between primes)
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