Math
Dept 2019-2020 Newsletter 4
Monday,
7 October 2019
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[Click on �Departmental Newsletters�].
Newsletter is sent out when there is something new.
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MEETINGS AND SEMINARS IN THE
DEPARTMENT
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Mondays
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Combinatorics Seminar
Mondays at Noon in room 213.
In the beginning there will some introductory talks on Combinatorics and research here in our department.
Coordinator: Louis Shapiro
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TUESDAYS
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Seminar On Topological Semigroups
2.10 pm, Annex III Lab
Coordinator Dennis
Davenport
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Wednesdays
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Graduate Student Seminar
12.10 to 1pm ASB-B 213
Coordinator: Matthew Cavallo
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Clifford Algebras Seminar
4 pm, Annex III, 200
Speaker: Tim Myers
Coordinators: Dennis Davenport and Tim Myers
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Math team/Math Club meetings
Wednesdays at 5pm, room 213.
The math club held its first
meeting last week.
The math team will have its first
meeting this week, and go over some interesting problems. Please tell your students.
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)
TBA
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 12.10 to 1 pm, Room 213, ASB-B
Friday, October 11.
TBA
The speakers for the last two weeks were Todd Drumm
(Sep 27) on �The Einstein Universe� and Stephen Casey of American University
(Oct 4) on �A New Architecture for Cell Phones.�
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TALKS AND WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT
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1
In previous Newsletters
Diversity in Data Science Workshop, Oct
17-18, Howard.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. Aziz
Yakubu asks everyone interested to attend as well
as tell others about the Diversity in Data Science Conference to be held at
Howard from Oct. 17-18.
Details including schedule of talks are on
this samsi.info
web-page.
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP
OPPORTUNITIES
(from various
sources)
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1. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
(Thanks to Mohammad Mahmood).
10-week research experiences are
offered at university-based DHS
Centers of Excellence (DHS Centers).
Areas of research: Engineering,
computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological / life sciences,
environmental science, emergency and incident management, social sciences, and
more.
Application deadline: December 23,
2019, 8:00 am EST.
How to Apply: Applications and
supporting materials must be
submitted at
https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/DHS-SRTMSI-2020-Faculty
Detailed
information about the program can be found at:
http://www.orau.gov/dhseducation/faculty/index.html
2. (Thanks to Dennis Davenport)
a) Travel
Grants for undergraduates to attend AMS joint meetings
AMS will accept
applications for undergraduate travel grants to the JMM in Denver in January.
Applications opened on 9/17 and close on 10/21 according to the web
site.
b) NIMBioS Undergraduate Research Conference
November 16 - 17 in
Knoxville, TN
Information about the Conference and how to apply for funding to
help with costs here: http://www.nimbios.org/education/undergrad_conf2019.
c) The National Institutes
of Health (NIH) Internship/Fellowship
Division of Technical
Resources (DTR) is recruiting Intern or Fellowship data scientists and data
engineers with advanced degrees or those who may wish to use work experience at
the NIH towards earning their Master or Doctoral degrees. Candidates must
be United States citizens.
To find out more about the NIH DTR Programs, go to:https://www.orf.od.nih.gov/PoliciesAndGuidelines/Pages/default.aspx
d) AIM Call for Workshop
Proposals
All information at https://aimath.org/aim-research-activities/
AIM runs focused
workshops for groups of 28 researchers with the goal of establishing productive
and lasting collaboration. We especially encourage participation from junior
mathematicians, women, under-represented minorities,
and mathematicians from primarily undergraduate institutions.
We also encourage proposals for new workshops. Deadline is November 1, 2019 for
workshops that begin afterJune 1, 2020.
AIM is also accepting applications for our SQuaREs
program. SQuaREs are groups of 4-6 researchers
who gather at AIM for a week of focused work with the opportunity
of returning for 2 or 3 consecutive years.
The deadline for SQuaREs proposals is Nov. 1, 2019.
3. (Thanks to Aziz Yakubu)
Free
MBI Course on Topological Data Analysis (TDA) & Neuroscience
Thanks to an NSF grant, in collaboration with Howard University
and several other universities, the Mathematical Bioscience Institute (MBI) of
the Ohio State University is offering a one credit undergraduate course on
Topological Data Analysis (TDA) + Neuroscience to undergraduate students during
the spring semester of 2019-2020 academic year. MBI is not charging any
student for this course. The main part of the course will be streamed online
live from MBI free of charge to the collaborating institutions. Students can
listen to the lectures and ask questions from their laptop. Then in May of 2020
all the participating students will meet at the MBI for a 3-day workshop with
all expenses paid by MBI.
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INTERESTING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
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1. Michael Rapoport�s
article on Peter Scholze�s contributions
Some of you might remember Prof. Rapoport�s talk in our department in which he described his
former student and Fields medalist Peter Scholze�s work.
Here is a very nice summary of it from arxiv. It is
actually his laudation of Scholze for the Fields
medal award.