Math Dept
2015-2016 Newsletter 16
Monday, 7 March 2016
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Past newsletters can now be
reached via the department website.
[Click on ÒRead the NewsletterÓ in the bottom].
Newsletter is sent out when there is something
new.
Please send entries by the end of the
workweek --Ed
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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Mondays
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Combinatorics Seminar
The Combinatorics
Seminar will meet on Mondays at 2:10 in Chemistry G-06.
Coordinator: Lou Shapiro
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Geometry &
Topology Seminar
TIME : 3:10PM-4:00PM,
PLACE; MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT, ROOM: 0213.
Roberto De Leo will discuss FREE IMMERSIONS Of SURFACES
INTO THE EUCLIDEAN
SPACE OF MINIMAL DIMENSIONS.
In the first talk he will outline
the problems and begin with a brief review of some
JET SPACES AND JET BUNDLES.
Coordinator: Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews
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Wednesdays
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Evolution
Equations & Dynamical Systems seminar
2:10-3:00, in the
Lounge Room of the Math Dept.
March 9, 2016
Professor Bourama
Toni from Virginia State University.
Title: p-adic
Limit cycles
The seminar will
cover all areas and subareas of evolution equations and
dynamical systems
as well as their applications.
Organizer: Toka Diagana
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Algebra-Number
Theory Seminar
2.10 to 3 pm, room 201
Dani Szpruch
will talk about Tate and Tate type gamma factors and their role in
representation theory.
After introducing the SL(2,F) example he is
going to describe his research on
non-algebraic covering of
SL(2,F). He will show how meromorphic functions
that
resemble Tate gamma factor
enter the picture.
Co-coordinators: Sankar Sitaraman and Dani Szpruch
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Graduate Student Seminar
3.10 to 4pm Annex bldg. Graduate student office
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Fridays
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Topological Semigroups
and Ramsey Theory Seminar
The Seminar on Topological Semigroups and Ramsey Theory will meet Fridays from
2:10--3:00 in Annex III, room 233. (Note the
change of Day).
Kendra Pleasant is speaking on ÒA new Central Sets
theorem for partial semigroups.Ó
Coordinator: Neil Hindman
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Mathematics Department Colloquium
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Friday, March 11
4.10 to 5 pm, ASB-B 213
No colloquium this week
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Fluid
dynamics seminar
Seminar usually takes 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 WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
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Book Celebration & Reception for Dr. Tepper
Gill
ÒFunctional
Analysis and the Feynmann Operator CalculusÓ Host: Rev. LaVerne Gill Saturday, March 19 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM United Christian Parish 11508 North
Shore Drive Reston, VA 20194 2. (from Crepin Mahop) School and Workshop on Homological
Methods in Algebra and Geometry
(summer 2016)
Physics (ICTP) is organizing this at
AIMS Ghana, from 1st August to 12th August 2016. More
details at http://indico.ictp.it/event/7649/ 3. (from Henok Mawi) 46th Annual John H.
Barrett Memorial Lectures Modeling and
Analysis of Nonlinear PDE Models in Spatial Ecology More details
at https://www.math.utk.edu/barrett/ 4. (From Toka Diagana)
The
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf),the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, the Max Planck Institute for Infection
Biology and the Schering Institute will be hosting an Infectious Diseases Symposium from 24 to 26 October 2016 at
the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany. Closing
date for submission is: Friday, 26
February 2016. More
details at http://www.sayas.org.za/ 5. (from Aziz Yakubu)
In
collaboration with Dr. Lara Campbell of the US National Science Foundation
(NSF), Aboubaker Chedikh Beye of University Cheikh Anta Diop, Martial Ndeffo Mbah of Yale University, Farai Nyabadza of Stellenbosch University, Fred Roberts of
Rutgers University and I are organizing a pre-Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Satellite Workshop on Modeling of
Infectious Diseases with a focus on Ebola, March 6-7, 2016, to be held in
Dakar. For more information, see http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/EbolaWS/ The
following are in previous weeksÕ newsletters: IMA Math-to-Industry Grad student Boot
Camp, June 20 to July 29, 2016 Howard University Research Week, April 11-15, 2016 Georgetown
Undergraduate Research Conference, April 14 to 15, 2016. 2016 Spring Opportunities Workshop
for Women in Math Sciences THE SIXTH MASAMU ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE (MASI) AND WORKSHOPS IN
MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, 2016 |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. Nourridine
Siewe and Aziz
YakubuÕs paper "Immune Response to Infection
by Leishmania: A Mathematical Model" has been
accepted for publication in
Mathematical
Biosciences. It was written jointly with Professors Abhay
Satoskar (M.D.) and Avner
Friedman.
2. (from Crepin Mahop) The Scholarship Day will be held on April 8,
2016. In the mean time I am requesting those of you who are interested to
communicate your nominations to the Scholarship Committee Chairman Dr. C. Mahop.
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In past weeksÕ newsletter:
(Aziz
Yakubu) AMMSI-Phillip Griffiths Prize: 2016
(From Talitha Washington) fall
of 2016, StatFest at Howard University.
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
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1. Opportunities at
various federal agencies
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In past newsletters: The Institute for Advanced Composite Manufacturing
Innovation (IACMI) summer internship program Application
deadline: March 15th, 2016. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. (from
Aziz Yakubu) Auburn
Univ. REUs : Available
in: (click on desired REU) Bioinformatics , Math REU , Biosystems , Computer Science 2. (From Louise Raphael) Website for
Undergraduate Research Opportunities (REUÕs) https://sites.google.com/site/mathreuprograms/ 3. (From Toka
Diagana) 2016 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates at UAB May 15 to July 22, 2016 in "Experimental and Computational
Materials ResearchÓ. Application
Deadline: April 15, 2016 Details at https://www.uab.edu/cnmb/research-experiences-for-undergraduates/ |
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