Math Dept 2018-2019
Newsletter 12
Monday, 8 April 2019
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workweek --Ed
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MEETINGS AND
SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT
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HOWARD
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH WEEK THIS WEEK APRIL 8-12
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Mondays
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Monday,
April 8, from 1:00-3:00 pm, Interdisciplinary Research Building
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering
and Medicine Townhall
(Part of Research Week)
Presentation
and discussion
"Minority-Serving
Colleges and Universities Are Positioned to Serve as a
Greater
Resource for Meeting U.S. STEM Workforce Needs,
But
Increased Attention and Investments Are Needed."
Our
colleague, Dr. Bill Spriggs, served on the committee that produced
this National Academies of Science report .
Register
at: https://howard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eaE5i4zjwjiMraJ
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Combinatorics Seminar
Mondays at 3:10 in ASB-B room 203.
Coordinator: Louis Shapiro
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Geometry
& Topology Seminar
Monday, April 8 will be the next meeting day.
Xinting Wang is talking about a
ÒGourmet's Guide To
Non-Commutative Algebraic Geometry.Ó
Time: Mondays, 3:10pm-4:00pm,
Place: ASB-B 213.
Coordinator: Stanley M. Einstein-Matthews
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TUESDAYS
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Seminar On
Topological Semigroups
Tuesdays, in the Annex III computer
lab (room 210) at 11:00 am.
Topic: ÒAlgebra on the Stone-Cech
Compactification"
Coordinator Dennis Davenport
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Wednesdays
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Graduate
Student Seminar
Annex III Computer Lab,
12-1pm
on every other Wednesday.
Coordinator: Matthew Cavallo
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Math
team/Math Club meetings
Wednesday,
April 10: Special math club meeting.
Scholarship
& Awards Day
From
3:10-5:00 pm, ASB_B 213.
Note the special timing. Please support our
students as we recognize their efforts and accomplishments. If you have
recommended a student, we especially ask you to attend, so that you may
introduce your student as he or she receives the award.
(Meets usually Wednesdays at 5pm, room 213).
The meetings are meant to help in preparing students
for math
competitions, inspiring videos about math, talks about
careers.
Please tell your students.
Organizers: Jill McGowan (math club), Lou Shapiro
(math team)
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Fridays
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Analysis and
Differential Equations On Separable Banach Spaces
(New Seminar Series)
3 TO 4 PM, ROOM 213, ASB-B.
About the series:
This series will discuss a new constructive approach
to analysis on
separable Banach spaces.
The key idea is to first show that any separable Banach space
can be continuously embedded in a separable Hilbert
space.
Organizers: Tepper Gill, Dan
Williams, Tim Myers.
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Mathematics
Department Colloquium
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Fridays 4.10 to 5 pm, Room 213, ASB-B
Friday, April
12.
|
Jasbir Chahal,
Brigham Young University |
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Elliptic curves and rational albime triangles
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Fluid
dynamics seminar
Seminar takes place after colloquium
and does not take place if there is no colloquium.
Abstract:
ÒFluid Dynamics SeminarÓ is also known as the
departmental happy hour.
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TALKS AND
WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
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18-21
July 2019 4-Day Intensive SIMIODE DeveloperÕs Workshop
Those with experience and ideas for writing
differential equations modeling scenarios for classroom use are encouraged to
apply.
21-26 July
2019 5-Day SIMIODE Practitioners Workshop
Ideal for those who would like to learn more
about how to foster a modeling-first approach in the classroom.
Complete
information and application process here: DEMARC and MINDE
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In previous
newsletters:
Georgetown Undergraduate Research Conference
(URC)
April 16th, 2019
25th Industrial Mathematical & Statistical Modeling
(IMSM) Workshop
July 2019
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1.
Yeona Kang will give the COAS Junior Faculty Research Seminar
April 17, 12 to 1.30 pm
in the DeanÕs Conference Room.
Title: ÒQuantitative Structure-Properties Relationship
coupled with PET imaging predicts Blood-Brain transport of
BenzamidesÓ
Earlier, Xinting Wang had
given a talk in the same series.
In previous newsletters:
HU Bridge to Doctorate
Program.
Contact Katharine Gurski
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SCHOLARSHIP
AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
(from various sources)
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1. Wisconsin Actuarial Certificate Proram
The 15 credit,
on-campus Actuarial Science certificate is designed to
help meet the growing demand for actuaries.
It
also offers industry connections, an actuary career fair,
and an actuarial club students may join.
If you have any questions or would like to coordinate an online webinar
or in-person campus visit, please reach out and contact
Gordon Enderle, at genderle@wisc.edu
In previous newsletters:
PRiME (Pomona Research in Mathematics
Experience) summer 2019
DOE Scholarship Programs
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INTERESTING
ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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1. (thanks to Louise Raphael)
New York Times article on graphs
A
very nice collection of graphs related to climate change and
how it engages students and what it teaches them about
graphs.
In previous
newsletters:
Joint
meetings invited talks website, including
Edray GoinsÕ talk on
NAM and history of African-American mathematicians